Dr. Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik
Dr. Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik
University Assistant for Austrian History
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:
- Habsburg-Ottoman-Italian intertwining history
- Manuscript newspapers (avvisi) as repositories and mediators of knowledge and their collections in Central Europe
- A comparative history of the establishment of book printing, book production and the book trade in Central and Southeast Europe
- Turkish images and Turkish memory 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
- Transfer of knowledge and networks of knowledge between the European republic of scholars and the Ottoman Empire
- Migration, flight 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 was initially a university assistant (without a doctorate) at the Chair of Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Pécs. She then held a Hertha Firnberg junior researcher position at the Department of History at the University of Graz. She then worked as a university assistant (with a doctorate) at the Department of History and the Centre for the History of Science at the University of Graz.
She is a recipient of the Pro Scientia Gold Medal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and 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 National Exhibition "Emperor and Sultan. Neighbours in the Middle of Europe, 1600-1700" at the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe.
As 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 Scholars and the Ottoman Empire: Knowledge Transfer and Networks of Knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment" (funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, ref. 10.17.2.038GE). She has also received research grants for her research projects, such as those from the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Habsburg Institute in Budapest and the Collegium Hungaricum in Vienna.