Dr. Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik
Dr. Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik
Room
ZG2O1.47
Phone
+43-1-4277-27295
zsuzsa.barbarics-hermanik@univie.ac.at
Consultation hours
Monday, 3-5 pm by appointment by e-mail
Teaching events
Key Research Topics
Late medieval and early modern cultural and gender history as well as the history of communication, media and knowledge, in particular:
∎ Entangled history of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Ottoman Empire and the Italian territories
∎ Handwritten newsletters (avvisi) and their collections in Central Europe
∎ A comparative history of the adoption and development of the new technology of print in
Central- and Southeast Europe, including book production and book trade
∎ Images and memories of the ‘Turks’ in late medieval and early modern Central Europe
∎ Memory culture, propaganda and political communication in the lands of the Austrian
Habsburgs in the sense of a comparative history of Central Europe
∎ Knowledge Transfer and Networks of Knowledge between the European Republic of Letters
and the Ottoman Empire
∎ Migration, refuge seeking and asylum in Central- and Southeast Europe from a gender-historical
perspective
Curriculum vitae
Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik studied history and German language and literature at the Universities of Pécs and Graz, and completed her doctorate in history at the University of Graz. Prior to her research and teaching activities at the Department of History and the Institute of Austrian Historical Research at the University of Vienna (starting January 2023), she held a position of a University Assistant (without doctorate) at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Pécs, and then a Hertha-Firnberg-Position at the Institute of History of the University of Graz. Following that, she worked as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of History and the Centre for the History of Science at the University of Graz.
She was awarded the Pro Scientia Gold Medal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and is a member of the Society for Emblem Studies and the Hungarian Historical Society. As a member of the scientific advisory board of the following institutions, she provided expert scientific advice on the creation of the Schlossberg Museum in Graz and the Great State Exhibition “Emperor and Sultan. Neighbours in the Heart of Europe, 1600-1700” at the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe.
As a PI, she led two third-party funded research projects entitled “Transcultural Exchange: The Habsburgs and the Ottomans, 1520-1620” (Hertha Firnberg project, funded by the FWF, T-476) and “The European Republic of Letters and the Ottoman Empire: Knowledge Transfer and Networks of Knowledge in the Age of the Enlightenment” (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, ref. 10.17.2.038GE). She is also grateful to have received research grants and fellowships from the Gerda Henkel Foundation in Germany, the Habsburg Institute in Budapest und the Collegium Hungaricum in Vienna.