Meissel, Lukas
Professorship in History Didactics with a special focus on pragmatics at the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies and the Centre for Teacher Education
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My research
Visual sources shape perceptions of the past and attributions of meaning to events. My research and teaching focus on source-critical methods and theories of visual history as well as approaches to history teaching. My main areas of interest are Holocaust studies and education, anti-Semitism and politics of history, and the history of photography and film. A reflective view of the power of images and processes of visualisation is essential, especially in times of digital revolution, which is increasingly characterised by visual narratives between information and propaganda.
Curriculum Vitae
- 2007-2011 BA in History, University of Vienna (Austria)
- 2011-2015 MA in Contemporary History, University of Vienna (Austria)
- 2015 Herbert Steiner Recognition Award, Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW), International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)
- 2016-2024 PhD at the University of Haifa (Israel)
- 2017 David Herzog Fund Scholarship from the Styrian Universities (Austria)
- 2017 Yad Vashem Scholarship, The Suessel & Sigmund Siegelman z”l Fund (Israel)
- 2018 EHRI Fellowship, Federal Archives Berlin (Germany)
- 2019 USC Shoah Foundation, Centre for Advanced Genocide Research’s Greenberg Research Fellow (USA)
- 2019 Junior Fellowship, Centre for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich (Germany)
- 2019 Sharon Abramson Research Grant, Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (USA)
- 2019-2020 Lecturer, University of Vienna (Austria)
- 2020-2021 Junior Fellow, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) (Austria)
- 2021 Theodor Körner Prize for Science, Institute for Historical Social Research, Vienna
- 2021-2022 Doctoral fellow 2021/2022, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (France)
- 2024 Visiting Scholar, The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
- 2024 Herbert Steiner Prize 2024, Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW), International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH)
- 2024 The Robert Wistrich Prize 2024, Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2024-2026 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) with two postdoctoral fellowships from the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (France)
- Since 2025 Faculty member, lecturer and research fellow, Weiss-Livnat International Centre for Holocaust Research and Education, University of Haifa (Israel)
- Since January 2026 University Professor of History Didactics with a special focus on pragmatics, Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies and Centre for Teacher Education, University of Vienna
