Univ.-Prof. Dr. Philipp Ther, M.A.
E-mail: philipp.ther@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-411 03
eFax: +43-1-4277-841103
Office: 2N-EG-04
Teaching/staff directory: u:find
Consultation hours: WS 2024-25: Mondays from 2 p.m. Prior registration with Ms Biricz (anita.biricz@univie.ac.at) is requested.
Zoom link for office hours: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/91356191745?pwd=M00xcVZoWmpwRi95Tit5aGZ5ZjJPQT09
Consultation hour changes and holiday dates can be found here
Functions:
Director – Research Centre for the History of Transformations
Deputy Director – Research Platform Transformations and Eastern Europe
Projects:
See Research Center for the History of Transformation
(RECET): recet.at
Projects, Conferences and Ongoing Book Projects
Key Research Topics:
History of transformation since the 1980s, social and cultural history of Eastern Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, music and history, comparative nationalism studies, ethnic cleansing, history theory, in particular comparative studies and cultural transfer.
Detailed CV and list of publications
Wittgenstein Award winner:
Philipp Ther, Professor of East Central European History at the University of Vienna, has been awarded the "Austro-Nobel Prize" for his project "The Great Transformation. A Comparative Social History of Global Upheaval", in which he examines the transformation after the end of state socialism both from a macroperspective and on the basis of case studies "from below".
To the article in the media portal Uni:Blicke:
medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/uniblicke/detailansicht/artikel/zwei-wittgenstein-und-ein-start-preis-fuer-die-universitaet-wien/