Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Dietlind Hüchtker
Professorship for Historical Transregional Studies at the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies
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Curriculum Vitae:
1981-1989 Studied history and political science at the Free University of Berlin
1989-1998 Research assistant at the Free University of Berlin with projects on historical traffic statistics, urban history and poverty as well as denunciation and the informer system
1996 Doctorate at the Technical University of Berlin
1998/99 Research assistant at the research training group "Identity Research", Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
1999-2003 Scholarship holder of the German Historical Institute Warsaw, the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the funding program for women's studies, Senate of Berlin
2003-2020 Research associate and project manager at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig, with projects on elite change, religious tolerance, utopias and rural societies
2007/08 Visiting Professor, Institute for Slavic Studies, Dresden University of Technology
2012 Habilitation, Venia Legendi for Modern and Contemporary History
2014 Deputy Chair of Eastern European History, Department of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz
2015/16 Käthe Leichter Visiting Professor for Gender Studies at the University of Vienna (on the article "Dietlind Hüchtker: 'Looking at history from a different perspective'" in uni:view)
Associate professor at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg since 2017
since October 2020 Professor of Historical Transregional Studies at the Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna
Research areas:
* Interdisciplinary gender studies
* History of spaces
* Transregional political history
* Transregional history of knowledge and science
"History is a discipline that is ascribed a high level of social interpretative power and at the same time is taken for granted. In my research, I think about how historical thinking can enrich social knowledge and how it must change in order to be socially relevant." (Dietlind Hüchtker)