Katharina Stornig, Professorship of Modern History - Women's and Gender History from the late 18th century onwards

Contact Katharina Stornig

"My research centres on gender orders, relations and relationships in Europe in the long 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on transnational, colonial and global entanglements. I am particularly concerned with constructions, interpretations and hierarchisations of difference as well as the production, critique and transformation of inequality in various social contexts of action, such as cross-border mobility, charity and humanitarianism or civil society and religious movements. I often draw on actor-centred perspectives as well as gender-historical and intersectional approaches; it is precisely their critical potential to question the supposedly given and reflect on historical categories that allows me to formulate questions relevant to the present and work on their historical dimension." (Katharina Stornig)

Research areas:

* Women's and gender history
* Colonialism and decolonisation
* Missionary movement, charity and religious internationalism
* Childhood and family in the 19th and 20th centuries
* Labour and educational mobility

Curriculum Vitae:

1998-2004 Diploma in History and Philosophy, Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna
2004 Master's degree in Philosophy, University of Vienna
2010 PhD in History and Cultural History, European University Institute (EUI), Florence
2011-2013 Research assistant, BMBF junior research group “Europabilder evangelischer Missionare”, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz
2013-2014 Fellow at the Austrian Historical Institute (ÖHI) in Rome
2014-2016 Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz
2016-2023 Junior Professor of Cultural Studies specialising in cultural history, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture and Department of History and Cultural Studies, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2018 Visiting Fellowship, Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, New York
2019 positive evaluation as junior professor, Justus Liebig University Giessen
2022 Habilitation (venia legendi for Modern and Contemporary History), Justus Liebig University Giessen
2023 Admission to the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2024-2025 DFG Heisenberg position, Department of Modern History, Justus Liebig University Giessen
since 1 July 2025 Professorship of Modern History - Women's and Gender History from the late 18th century onwards, University of Vienna