Priv.-Doz. Dr. Tamara Scheer

Research project:

In addition to my teaching, which focuses on the history of the Habsburg monarchy and Central Europe from the long 19th to the 20th century, I am currently working on my fourth monograph. It deals with language diversity and national identities in the Austro-Hungarian army (1868-1914/18) and is already being funded by the FWF with a second research grant (Hertha Firnberg, 2013-2016, Elise Richter 2017-2022).

Academic Curriculum Vitae and Publications

Since my doctorate in history (University of Vienna, 2007), I have taught and conducted research at the National Defence Academy Vienna, the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, the Faculty of Central European Studies (Andrássy University Budapest), the Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science, and the Institute for Eastern European European History at the University and the Pontifical Institute of Eastern European Studies Santa Maria dell' Anima in Rome;

Short-term teaching assignments at the University of Southampton and the University of Ljubljana (ERASMUS Mobility), as well as a Dobrovsky Fellowship at the Masaryk Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague.

I will teach as a visiting professor at the Institute of History at the University of Hradec Kralove during the winter semester of 2024–25: https://www.uhk.cz/en/philosophical-faculty/about-faculty/actual-events/a-professor-from-the-university-of-vienna-is-coming-to-teach-at-the-philosophical-faculty

Teaching and Key Research Topics:

• Austria and Hungary during the period of the Ausgleich (1867-1918), differences in politics, constitution and administration, dealing with linguistic diversity and the question of nationalities and minorities
• State of emergency in Austria and Hungary during the First World War, home front
• Hungary's occupation regime in World War I – with a focus on Serbia, Montenegro and Northern Italy
• Bosnia-Herzegovina as part of Austria-Hungary, administrative structure, language and military policy
• Linguistic diversity and the nationality question in Austria-Hungary in the military and the Roman Catholic Church
• Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Sanjak of Novi Pazar
• The culture of remembrance of crises and wars in Central Europe and Italy between 1848 and 1918

I am happy to supervise theses on these topics, especially those that require support with sources in Italian, Croatian and Hungarian or that would like to gain academic experience in these language areas.

Publications and Activities (u:cris Portal)

Publications - Monographs:

• Tamara Scheer, Die Sprachenvielfalt in der österreichisch-ungarischen Armee (1867-1918) (=Schriftenreihe des Heeresgeschichtlichen Museums 31, Wien 2022).
• Tamara Scheer, "Minimale Kosten, absolut kein Blut!": Österreich-Ungarns Präsenz im Sandžak von Novipazar (1879-1908) (=Neue Forschungen zur ostmittel- und südosteuropäischen Geschichte 5, Frankfurt et al. 2013).
• Tamara Scheer, Die Ringstraßenfront – Österreich-Ungarn, das Kriegsüberwachungsamt und der Ausnahmezustand während des Ersten Weltkriegs (=Schriftenreihe des Heeresgeschichtlichen Museums 15, Wien 2010).
• Tamara Scheer, Zwischen Front und Heimat: Österreich-Ungarns Militärverwaltungen im Ersten Weltkrieg (=Neue Forschungen zur ostmittel- und südosteuropäischen Geschichte 2, Frankfurt et al. 2009).

Co-authorship/Anthologies:

• Tamara Scheer, Nikolaus Rottenberger (eds.), Where have all the young men gone? The 460 Austro-Hungarian Soldiers from First World War buried in the Crypt of Santa Maria dell’Anima in Rome (Vienna, 2023)
• together with: Markian Prokopovych, Carl Bethke, Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire, Brill: Leiden, 2019.
• together with: Clemens Ruthner, Österreich-Ungarn und Bosnien-Herzegowina, 1878-1918: Annäherungen an eine Kolonie, Tübingen: Francke Herbst 2018 (Reihe: Kultur – Herrschaft - Differenz)
• Etschmann Wolfgang / Scheer Tamara / Schmidl Erwin, An der Grenze. Der erste Einrückungstermin des Bundesheeres und der Einsatz während der Ungarnkrise 1956, Graz: Vehling 2006.

Habilitation thesis
Language Diversity and Loyalty in the Habsburg Army, 1868-1918
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Publications and research activities at academic forums:
univie.academia.edu/TamaraScheer
www.researchgate.net/profile/Tamara_Scheer

Publications and research activities on social media:
twitter.com/ScheerTamara 
https://www.instagram.com/scheertamara/www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmxlq0aImh4S3hY9v9sARQ

Identifying 400 Austro-Hungarian Soldiers of the First World War in the Crypt of Santa Maria dell Anima in Rome