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Curriculum vitae
Name: Susan Carin Zimmermann
Place and date of birth: Tübingen (Germany), 24 October 1960
Citizenship: German (to 1995), Austrian (since 1995)
Academic qualifications and positions
Academic Qualifications
University Professor, Central European University (CEU),Budapest, Hungary, 2013
“Egyetemi tanár,” CEU, 2006
Professor of History, CEU, 2001
“Habilitation,” Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria, 2000
“Habilitáció,” Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE), Budapest, 1999
Dr. Phil., University of Vienna, Austria, 1993
Graduate degree in political science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, 1988
Mag. Phil., University of Vienna, 1986
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 1980–1981
Scholarships/Fellowships
Fellowship at re:work, International Research Center on Work and Human Life Cycle, Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin, Germany, Academic Year 2016–2017
Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Academic Year 2002–2003
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Austrian Program for Advanced Research and Technology (APART), three year “Habilitation”
fellowship,Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1996–2000 (including a period of maternal leave)
Guest Fellow, Zentrum für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas, Freie Universität Berlin, April–
June 2000
Guest Fellow, Arbeitsstelle für Vergleichende Gesellschaftsgeschichte, Freie Universität Berlin,
April–May 1997
Scholarship, Europa Institut, Budapest, October 1990–May 1991
“Scholar,” Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, 1986–1988
Member of the research team of the exhibition “Arbeit-Mensch-Maschine. Der Weg in die
Industriegesellschaft” [Work-man-machine. The road towardsindustrial society], Austria, 1987
Languages
German – native
English – advanced
Hungarian – advanced
French – good
Current Position
University Professor, Department of History, Department of Gender Studies, CEU (since 2013)
“Egyetemi tanár,”CEU (since 2006; permanently since 2008)
External lecturer, then Affiliated reader (based on venia legendi), University of Vienna, Institute of
Economic and Social History (since 1997)
External lecturer, University of Vienna, Institute for International Development(since 2009)
“Universitätsdozentin,” University of Vienna (venia legendi, since 2000)
Previous Appointments
Professor of History, CEU, 2001–2013
Guest Professor in Gender Studies, University of Vienna, October 2006–January 2007
Guest Professor in Austrian History, University of Vienna, October 2005–January 2006
Associate Professor in History, CEU 1998–2001
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Research Employée, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für Gesellschafts- und Kulturgeschichte, Linz,
1996
Assistant Professor in History, CEU, 1992–1997
Research Employée, research project on the history of social policy, social reform, and municipal
policies in Vienna and Budapest, led by Prorector Univ.-Prof. Dr. Manfried Welan, Universität
für Bodenkultur, Vienna, 1990–1993
Research Fellow, Institute for Research on Global Structures, Development, and Crises, Starn-
berg, Germany, 1988–1990
Teaching Experience/Educational Work
Teaching Interests
Global and European labor history
Women and social movements
International politics and global inequality
Central and East Central European comparative history
History of the Habsburg Monarchy
Gender history
Integrative perspectives in gender studies
History of historiography
Significant Educational Achievements
Two year MA degree program in Critical Gender Studies, CEU:
Responsible for Hungarian re-accreditation (incl. the MATILDA and GEMMA
specializations), 2015–2016
Responsible for the second stage of US-accreditation, 2011–2012
Program Responsible, now Co-Responsible, since 2008
Responsible (together with Éva Fodor) for Hungarian accreditation, 2005–2007
MA degree program in European Women’s and Gender History MATILDA (Coordinating
Institution: University of Vienna):
Responsible for US-accreditation, CEU, 2012
Program Co-Responsible, CEU, since 2008
Responsible for the EU-funded program development, CEU, 2006–2008
Author, CEU Habilitation Regulation, 2008
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Participation as permanent external lecturer in building, organizing, and realizing the study
module and European Master Program “Global history,” University of Vienna, 2002–2015
Building and Developing the Department of Gender Studies, CEU, involving:
Curriculum development of the MA Degree Program
Conceptualization, development, and accreditation of the PhD Degree Program in
Comparative Gender Studies (accreditation August 2002), 2001–2002
Statement of Purpose for the future department (https://gender.ceu.hu/node/26278)
Founding Head, Department of Gender Studies (2001–2003), CEU
Director, Program on Gender and Culture (2000–2001), CEU
Courses Taught
CEU (from 1992)
History Department
Department of Gender Studies
(NB: PhD and MA Writing and Research Seminars not listed)
The History of Every Day Life in Austria and the Habsburg Monarchy (with Roman Sandgruber)
The History of Gender in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Successor States (1867–1930s)
Social and Economic History of the Habsburg Monarchy (1848–1918)
Social History of Gender in Central Europe (1867–1930)
Historiography and Sociology. Their Complementarities and Tensions (co-taught with Jiří Musil)
Modernization, Development and Their Criticism. Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th
and
20th
Centuries (MA and PhD)
Comparative Social History of Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th
and 20th
Centuries (PhD;
with guest lecturers)
The Better Half? Vision, Politics, and Conflict in Central European Women’s Movements, 1848
to 1920s
Key Problems and Texts Related to Central and Eastern European History and Historiography
(with guest lecturers)
History and Socially Relevant Knowledge. Nineteenth-Century Approaches (PhD; co-taught with
László Kontler)
Shared Histories. The Use of Global Perspectives for Regional History (PhD; co-taught with Sally
Humphreys)
Women’s Movements and Women’s Aspirations, Global and Local. 19th
and 20th
Centuries (co-
taught with Gisela Bock)
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The Uses of Comparative and Integrative Perspectives for Women’s and Gender Studies
(mandatory PhD course)
Comparing Internationalisms. 19th
and 20th
Centuries
The Gender of Welfare Worldwide/The Gender of Social Protection Worldwide
Internationalism and the Transformation of Global Inequality, 19th
and 20th
Centuries
Why Global History, Which Global History? A Critical Introduction
Empires. Topical Survey (mandatory elective MA course) (co-taught with Niels Gaul)
European Labor History in Global Context from the 18th
Century to the Present (co-taught with
Marsha Siefert)
Labor History in Global Context, 19th
and 20th
Centuries
University of Vienna (from 1993)
(NB: Most courses were taught in German)
Decency and indecency: Femininity and societal norms in the 20th
century
Modernization and development theories and their critique in historiography
Theory of the social sciences and the humanities. Historiography and comparison: Perspectives
and problems of a promising field of scholarship
Entangled histories. Global historical perspectives on national, regional, and local histories
The territory of the Habsburg Monarchy as a product of entangled histories. From the beginnings
to the present, with a focus on methods of text and discourse analysis
Asymmetric discourse, asymmetric relationships. Nation and Empire:The Habsburg Monarchy in
Europe, Europe in the World
Class, gender, nation. New perspectives on the history of political and social reform movements
in the Habsburg Monarchy in transnational context
Global perspectives, local histories
Decentered – integrative – transnational. New approaches in women’s and gender studies
Transnationalism and gender. Geographical focus and global perspectives in women’s and gender
studies
Why global history – which global history? A critical introduction
Internationalisms and global inequality
The gender of social policy and welfare worldwide/The gender of social protection worldwide
Theories, sources and methods of global history: Conceptualizing research, doing research
The International Labour Organization and the contention on global inequality in the world of
work
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Dubious entanglements and liberatory strategies: Women’s movements and global inequality
Design, organization, and participation:
Lecture series on non-European history: The world economic crisis in the periphery
Lecture series on non-European history: The informal sector in the world economy
Lecture series on international development: The informal sector in the world economy
Lecture series on international development: Social policy in the periphery
Lecture series on non-European history and international development:
Organizedinternationalisms and the transformations of global inequality, 19th
and 20th
centuries
Lecture Series on international development: Internationalisms –International politics,
international organization, and the transformation of global inequality
Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (1994, 1997)
(NB: taught in German)
Decency and indecency: Gender relations, sexual reform, and the right of self-determination
1900–1945
The history of Hungary, 1790 to the end of the Habsburg Monarchy
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (1987–1996, 2003–2004)
(NB: taught in German)
From the sexual reform movement at the turn of the century to genetic engineering: population
policy in the 20th
century
Social and economic history for sociologists and economists
Theories on the history of the world economy and underdevelopment (sometimes co-taught with
Gerhard Melinz)
History and structures of social conflicts in the ‘third world’ (co-taught with G. Melinz)
The history of development policy: The ‘third world’
The history of protest movements in the ‘third world’ (co-taught with G. Melinz)
The history of development policy: Migration and the world system
History and structures of social conflicts in the ‘third world’ (co-taught with G. Melinz)
Gender equality and gender difference in the welfare state
Democracy, dictatorship and societal self-organization in the ‘third world’ (sometimesco-taught
with G. Melinz)
Gender and the trajectories of modernization: Comparative women’s history of the Habsburg
Monarchy
Gender and migration (co-taught with Michael John)
Supervision of PhD Students
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Eszter Bartha (CEU) AY 2000/2001–2005/2006
Éva Bicskei (CEU) AY 2000/2001–2007 (did not defend)
Selin Cagatay (CEU) AY 2009/2010–2016
Roxana Chechebec (CEU) AY 1999/2000–2005
Ada Demai (CEU) AY 2011/2012
Matyas Erdélyi (CEU) AY 2013/2014–current (co-supervision, with Karl Hall)
Alexandra Ghit (CEU) AY 2011/2012–current
Emily Gioielli (CEU) AY 2008/2009–2015
Beata Hock (CEU) AY 2004/2005–2009
Enikő Jakab (CEU) AY 2007/2008–2013 (de-registered)
Hasmik Kalapyan (CEU) AY 2001/2002–2009
Orsolya Kerestely (ELTE) AY 2004/2005–2007
Emese Lafferton (CEU) AY 1999/2000–2003
Anna Loutfi (CEU) AY 2001/2002–2006
Mladen Medved (CEU) 2012/2013–current
Nil Mutluer (CEU) AY 2005/2006–2012
Rasa Navickaite (CEU) AY 2014/2015–current
Vilana Pilinkaite (CEU) AY 1995/1996–2002
Markian Propokovych (CEU) AY 1998/1999–2004
Robert Parnica (CEU) AY 1995/1996–2001 (did not defend)
Maria Raluca Popa (CEU) AY 1998/1999–2004
Meghan Simpson (CEU) AY 2003/2004–2009 (not entitled to use her title)
Hanna Szemzo (CEU) AY 2010/2011–2012
Etelka Balha Tamás (CEU) AY 2011/2012 (co-supervision, with Jasmina Lukic)
Theodora Vacarescu (CEU) AY 2006/2007–2014 (de-registered)
Eszter Varsa (CEU) AY 2004/2005
Supervision of post-doctoral fellows
Ágoston Berecz, Project assistant, source-edition project “Women and Social Movements in
Modern Empires since 1820,” partial project “The Habsburg Empire, 1820–1918,” co-published by
the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York
and Alexander Street Press of Alexandria, Virginia, eds. Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin,
2017–2018
Goran Music, Post-doctoral fellow, Labor History Initiative, CEU, 2017–2018 (with Marsha
Siefert)
Selin Cagatay, Project assistant and Researcher, project “Women’s labor activism in Eastern
Europe and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late 20th
century,” 2016–2018
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Ivelina Masheva, Researcher, project “Women’s labor activism in Eastern Europe and
transnationally, from the age of empires to the late 20th
century,” 2017
Professional Activities and Achievements
Refereeing
For academic journals and publishers:
Aspasia.The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women’s
andGender History
Duke University Press
East-Central Europe/L’Europe du Centre-Est: Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift
East European Politics & Societies and Cultures
Feminist Theory
Gender, Place, and Culture
International Labor and Working-Class History
International Review of Social History
Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics
Journal für Entwicklungspolitik
Journal of Women’s History
Journal of World-Systems Research
Le Mouvement social
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft
The American Historical Review
The Czech Sociological Review
Women’s History Review
For major research foundations in:
Austria (Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank, …)
Germany (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG], …)
Hungary (Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alapprogrammok [OTKA], …)
Czech Republic
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Research Grants, Research Projects, Other Grants
CEU Humanities Initiative Grant for the project “Laboring Lives: The Experience of Work in
Eastern Europe”; awarded to Marsha Siefert and Susan Zimmermann, representing the “Labor
History for the 21st
Century in a Global Perspective,” History Department, 2015–2018
Responsible editor and lead-author, “The Habsburg Empire, 1820–1918,” primary sources
collected and Scholarly Essay written in collaboration with four assistant editors, published
in “Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 – WASMME,” a database and
archive of 75,000 pages, co-published by the Center for the Historical Study of Women and
Gender at the State University of New York and Alexander Street Press of Alexandria, Virginia,
eds. Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin (partial grant from CEU; partial grant from
WASMME), https://search.alexanderstreet.com/wasg, 2015–2018
“Women and the Work-place in Central Eastern Europe Writ Large, 19th
to 21st
centuries” (partial
small grant from CEU; partial small grant from Institut für die Geschichte und Zukunft der
Arbeit – IGZA and re:work, International Research Center Work and Human Life Cycle in
Global History, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), 2015–2017
Research Grant, CEU, for the project “International Policy, Women’s Work, and Unequal
Development. The ILO, International Women’s Organizations, and the Struggle on Gender, Race
and Class in Globalizing Labour Standards, 1920s to 1930s,” 2014–2015 (archival studies in
Geneva)
Invited contributor, Research Project “Europe 1815–1914. Between Restoration and Revolution,
National Constitutions and Global Law: An Alternative View on the European Century 1815–
1914” (sponsored by the European Research Council. “Working group Paradoxes of Peace in 19th
Century Europe”), 2010–2012
Invited contributor, Research Project “The World of Rosa Manus: International Feminism, Peace
and Politics,” organized by Aletta, Institute for Women’s History, Amsterdam (formerly IIAV,
today part of Atria), 2008–2012
Research grant, Austrian Academy of Sciences for the contribution on Sozialfürsorge und
Sozialpolitik [Poor relief and social policy], published in Helmut Rumpler, Peter Urbanitsch
(eds), Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918 [The Habsburg Monarchy 1848–1918], vol. 9:
Sozialstrukturen [Social structures], partial vol. 1: Von der feudal-agrarischen zur bürgerlich-
industriellen Gesellschaft [From feudal-agrarian to bourgeois-industrial society], partial vol. 1/2:
Von der Stände- zur Klassengesellschaft [From estate- to class-society], Vienna 2010, 2007–2008
Preparation and directorship, on behalf of CEU’s Department of Gender Studies, of the
international project sponsored by the Ford Foundation: “Educating For TheFuture: Building
Coalitions and Crossing Boarders in Women’s Studies Graduate Education/The Graduate
Women’s Studies Consortium” (together with the Departments/Programs for Graduate Women’s
and Gender Studies, University of Maryland – USA, coordinating institution; Bar Ilan University
– Israel; University of the Western Cape – South Africa; Ewha Woman’s University, Korea;
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Makarere University – Uganda; Bejing University – China; University of the West Indies –
Jamaica), 2001–2005
Research Grant, CEU, for the Research Project “Entangled Histories of First Wave Women’s
Movements in Central Europe. A Transnational Perspective,” 2002 –2008 (archival studies in
Amsterdam, Northampton/Mass., New York, Vienna, London, Geneva, and Berlin)
Research Grant, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
and CEU, for the research project “Gender and Equal Opportunities in Central Eastern Europe:
Women’s Employment and Unemployment” (together with Anna Pollert, Greenwich University,
London, and Éva Fodor, CEU), 2002–2004
Research grant, Austrian Academy of Sciences for the contributions on Frauenbewegungen und
Frauenbestrebungen in Ungarn von 1848 bis 1918 [Women’s movements and women’s endeavors
in Hungary between 1848 and 1918], published in Helmut Rumpler, Peter Urbanitsch (eds), Die
Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918: Vereine, Parteien und Interessensverbände [The Habsburg
Monarchy 1848–1918: Associations, political parties and representative bodies], Vienna 2006, 2004
Research grant, Austrian Academy of Sciences: Austrian Program for Advanced Research and
Technology (APART). Three year “Habilitation” fellowship 1996–2000 (including a period of
maternal leave)
Junior Faculty Research Grant, CEU, for research in the Schwimmer-Lloyd Collection of the
New York Public Library (USA), April 1996
Research grant, Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung der Stadt Wien, research on female “decency” and
municipal policy in Vienna and Budapest, 1860s–1930s, 1995–1996
Research grants,Hochschuljubiläumsstiftung der Stadt Wien, research on urban social policy in
Vienna and Budapest 1918–1938, 1992 and 1993
Research grant, Kulturamt der Stadt Wien, research on the gender division of labor in Vienna
during the Habsburg Monarchy, 1990
Honors and Distinctions
Hungarian Ministry of Culture: Pro Cultura Hungarica Memorial Award for non-Hungarian
citizens for promoting and popularizing Hungarian culture abroad, and enriching the cultural
relations between Hungary and other nations, 2005
Austrian Ministry for Social Security and Generations: Käthe Leichter Award 2000 for the study
“Die bessere Hälfte? Frauenbewegungen und Frauenbestrebungen im Ungarn der Habsburger-
monarchie 1848 bis 1918”
Arbeiterkammer Wien and Salzburg: Eduard März Award 1996 for PhD thesis “Die schönste
Perle an der Donau. Armenfürsorge, Kinderschutz und Sozialreform in Budapest im Zeitalter der
Doppelmonarchie. Im Vergleich mit Wien”
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Österreichische Gesellschaft für Stadtgeschichtsforschung: Special Award for Research on Central
European Urban History, 1992 (together with G. Melinz)
Membership and Headship in University Committees, CEU
Since 2010 Member, Habilitation Commission
2018 Member, Search Committee, Position in Habsburg Studies
2018 Chair, “Habilitation” Commission Katalin Szende
2015 – 2016 Chair, Promotion Committee Jasmina Lukic
2014 – 2016 Director, Doctoral Committee, Department of Gender Studies
2011 – 2016 Head, Hungarian-accredited Doctoral School of History
2008 – 2016 Member, Doctoral Committee, and responsible for HUN-degree, History
Department
2015 Member, “Habilitation” Committee Francisca de Haan
2014 – 2015 Chair, Promotion Committee Constantin Iordachi
2007– 2010 Member, “egyetemi tanár” Applications Evaluation Committee
2007 Member, Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Enrollment Trends
2005– 2010 Chair, CEU “Habilitation” Commission
2004– 2005 Member, CEU Curriculum Committee
2003–2004 Member, Ad-hoc Committee on refocusing CEU’s activities
1999–2000 Hear, Doctoral Committee, History Department
Other Academic Committees and Organizations
Member, Scientific Committee for the Conference “Globalization and Social Justice: A Century
of ILO action 1919–2019,”to be held in Paris, June 2019, since 2018
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Arbeit – Bewegung – Geschichte . Zeitschrift für historische
Studien, since 2018
Board Member, International Federation for Research in Women’s History,since 2015
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President, International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH), since 2014
Reporter, responsible for “Historical Sciences,” Board of the Austrian Science Fund FWF, since
October 2014
Member, Provisional Coordination Committee, and Co-ordinator (together with Eloisa Betti,
Silke Neunsinger, and Leda Papastefanaki) of the Working Group on Feminist Labour History,
European Labour History Network, since 2013
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und
Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, since 2008
External Member, Dissertation Committee Veronika Duma, University of Vienna, 2018
Member, Scientific Advisory Board for the Development of the Permanent Exhibition in the
Karl-Marx-House, Trier, Germany, 2017–2018
External Member, Dissertation Committee Eveline Wollner, University of Vienna, 2016
Member, Review Committee appointed by the German Federal Ministry for Education and
Research, evaluation of the International Research Center “Work and Human Life Cycle in
Global History,” Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2014
Member, Scientific Committee for the Conference “Expositions universelles et subjectivités
féminines: de la Foire Internationale de Chicago (1893) à l’Exposition internationale «Arts et
Techniques dans la Vie moderne» à Paris (1937),” held in Paris, 23–24 October 2014, 2013–2014
Vice-President, International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH), 2013–2014
Invited co-founder, European Labour History Network, 2013
Member, International Scientific Committee, International Conference of Labour and Social
History (ITH), Vienna, 2011–2013
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, web publication project “Women and Social Movements
International 1840 to Present,” editors Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish (State University of
New York Binghamton) (http://alexanderstreet.com/products/women-and-social-movements-
international), 2010–2014
External Member, Search Committee for two Chairs in History of 19th
and 20th
Century Europe,
European University Institute, Florence, 2007
Member, Board of the Summer University of CEU, 2000–2004
Member, Board of Directors, OmbudsWoman Program (Hungarian Non-Profit Foundation for
Women’s Rights), Budapest, 1997–2003
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Member, Jury of the book competition “Das Historische Buch 2002”
Memberships on Editorial Committees
Associate Editor for Europe (focus Eastern Europe), Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, USA,
from 2018
Member, Editorial Board of International Advisers, Labour History, Australia, from 2018
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Women’s History, USA, 2005–2010
Member, Editorial Board, Publication Series Globalgeschichte und Entwicklungspolitik, 2005–
2009
Member, Editorial Board, Studien zur Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, Campus Verlag,
Frankfurt/New York, 2004–2008
Member, Editorial Board, Eszmélet. Journal for Critical Social Inquiry (in Hungarian), Budapest,
1993–2008
Various Activities and Contributions
Editor (together with Eszter Bartha, Adrian Grama, Don Kalb,and David Ost) of the book Series
“Work and Labor: Transdisciplinary Studies for the 21st
Century,” CEU Press, since 2018
Guest Editor, Theme Section on “Empires,” for ASPASIA. The International Yearbook of
Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History, 9 (2015)
Invited Expert and Commentator, Graduate Workshop II: “Struggle over Traditional Gender
Roles in Times of Rupture,” Fachtagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechter-
forschung, Vienna, 11–13 September 2014
Reviewer for Michael Mitterauer-Preis für Gesellschafts-, Kultur- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte in
Wien [Michael Mitterauer award for social, cultural and economic history in Vienna], awarded by
the Department of Economic and Social History, University of Vienna, and the City of Vienna,
2014
Main responsible for the biographical entries on Hungarian woman historians for the 3-volume
publication,Béatrice Didier, Antoinette Fouque, Mireille Calle-Gruper (eds), Le Dictionnaire
universel des créatrices, Éditions des femmes, Paris, 2012–2013
Member, Advisory Board, Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms in
Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th
and 20th
Centuries, ed. Francisca de Haan,
Krassimira Daskalova, and Anna Loutfi, CEU Press 2006, 2003–2005
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Regular Lecturer for the Civil Society Initiative “Humanista Egyetem” [Humanist university], a
free Sunday school for students from socially disadvantaged strata, 1999–2004
Responsibility for a number of co-operations of the Department of Gender Studies, CEU, with,
among others, the following institutions:
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, year ATHENA,
the European Thematic Network of Women‘s Studies for the European Commission’s
SOCRATES, 2000–2003
Conceptualization and texts of the exhibition “Gyermeksorsok és gyermekvédelem Budapesten a
Monarchia idején/Kinderschicksale und Kinderschutz in Budapest im Zeitalter der Monarchie”
[The fate of children and child provision in Budapest during the Monarchy], Ervin Szabó
Municipal Library, Budapest, 1996
Conferences/Workshops/Panels Organized, Chaired, etc. (selection)
Co-organizer (together with Marsha Siefert) of the Research Initiative “Labor History for the 21st
Century in a Global Perspective,” History Department, CEU
(http://history.ceu.hu/LaborHistory), since 2012
Organizer of a “Specialized Theme” (half-day session) on “Gendered Work, Gendered Struggles:
Women’s Activism at the Work-place in Long-term and Comparative Perspective,”23rd
world
congress organized by the International Committee of Historical Sciences, Poznan, Poland, 23–29
August 2020
Co-organizer (together with Eloisa Betti, Silke Neunsinger, and Leda Papastefanaki), and Member
of the Scientific Committee, international conference “New Perspectives in Feminist Labour
history: Work and Activism,” Bologna, Italy, 17–18 January 2019
Organizer of special session on “Labor History as a Field: Where do we Stand?,” Session title “The
Darker Half of the Continent? Writing the History of Labour in Eastern Europe, 1945–2015,”
11th
European Social Science History Conference, Valencia, Spain, 30 March–2 April 2016
Co-organizer of one of the workshops of the Research Network “Women, Work and Value in
Europe, 1945–2015” (Principal Investigator: Josie McLellan, University of Bristol), sponsored by
the Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK), CEU, 6–8 March 2015
Co-organizer (together with Marsha Siefert and Gijs Kessler) of three panels and one roundtable
on Central and Eastern European labour history, 10th
European Social Science History Conference
in Vienna, 23–26 April 2014
Invited discussant for three panels (1. Women Promoting Women at the Chicago World Fair
(1893): Representations, Politics and National Identities; 2. Feminism in International Labour
Organizations in the Cold War Era; 3. Imperial Connections and Household Labour Relations),
10th
European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, 23–26 April 2014
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Co-organizer (together with Eileen Boris and Dorothea Hoehtker), International workshop
“Women’s ILO,” University of Vienna, Institute for International Development, 22 April 2014
Co-organizer (together with Tibor Valuch and Adrian Grama), workshop “Worlds of Labor.
Reassessing Social Change in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe,” CEU, 9 April 2014
Co-organizer (together with Eileen Boris) of the panel “Getting at the Body and the Soul? Re-
thinking Sexual Difference in Transnational Labour Policy in the 20th
Century,” Conference of the
International Federation for Research in Women’s History, Sheffield, England, 29 August–1
September 2013
Co-organizer (together with Marsha Siefert) of the workshop “Labor and State Socialism,” CEU,
2–3 November 2012
Invited commentator, panel “Universale Ideologien im Zeitalter des Nationalismus: Liberalismus,
Sozialismus, Katholizismus und die Nationalisierung der internationalen Politik” [Universal ide-
ologies in the era of nationalism: liberalism, socialism, Catholicism and the nationalization of
international politics], Conference “Nationale Identität und transnationale Verflechtung. Ostmit-
teleuropa im ‘langen’ 19. Jahrhundert” [National identity and transnational entanglements. Cen-
tral Eastern Europe in the ‘long’ 19th
century], Deutsches Historisches Institut, Warsaw, 11–13
October 2012
Invited commentator for the panel “Eastern European History in Global Perspective,” 9th
Euro-
pean Social Science History Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 11–14 April 2012
Invited commentator, Workshop “The Participation of East Central Europeans in the Early
International Organisations (1850–1918),”Centre for the History and Culture of East Central
Europe, Leipzig, 19 October 2010
Co-organizer, international conference on “Urban Space and Identity in the European City, 1890s
– 1930s,” Budapest, October 1994
Co-Organizer, international conference on “Große Städte der Habsburgermonarchie: Urbanisie-
rung, Kommunalpolitik, soziale Konflikte 1870–1918” [Large cities of the Habsburg Monarchy:
urbanization, municipal politics, and social conflicts 1870–1918], Budapest, December 1993
Conference Papers, Invited Lectures, etc. (selection)
Engendering labour’s power internationally? The IFTU Women’s International and the politics of
working women’s rights and organizing in the interwar period. Invited keynote lecture to be
given at the international conference “Gender and the State. 100 years of the fight for equality in
Central-Eastern Europe,” Warsaw, 27–29 November 2018
Arbeiterinnen aller Länder vereinigt Euch. Die gewerkschaftliche Frauen-Internationale und die
internationale Geschlechterpolitik in der Zeit zwischen den Weltkriegen [Women of all countries
unite. The trade union Women’s International and international gender politics in the time be-
tween the World Wars]. Invited public lecture, organized by re:work, International Research
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Center on Work and Human Life Cycle, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Centre Marc Bloch, 16
January 2018
Division and provision: Doing social protection policies in Hungary and Austria under the Habs-
burg Monarchy, 1880–1914. Invited lecture, L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Centre
d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques, Paris, 24 April 2017
Equality of women’s economic status? A weighty bone of contention in global gender governance
emerging in the interwar period. Paper presented at the international conference “Liberal-
(Il)liberal-Internationalisms. New Paradigms for the History of the Twentieth Century,” Vienna,
8–9 December 2016
The politics of bringing gendered labour law to the Global South, 1919–1944. Invited keynote
lecture, international conference “Women and Labour Activism in a Transnational Context,”
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, 15–16 April 2016
The agrarian working class put somewhat center stage. An often marginalized group of workers
in the historiography of labor written in state-socialist Hungary. Paper given in the special session
on “Labor History as a Field: Where do we Stand?,” Session title “The Darker Half of the Conti-
nent? Writing the History of Labour in Eastern Europe, 1945–2015,” 11th
European Social Science
History Conference, Valencia, 30 March–2 April 2016
Gender, anti/feminism, imperialism – and the current “refugee crisis” from a gender history
perspective. Invited presentation, paper given at the workshop “Crisis and Victims. A Workshop
on Refugees, Migrants and Anti-Refugee Discourses in a New Way,” co-organized by Rosa
Luxemburg Foundation, Karl Polányi Center for Global Social Studies and Eszmélet, Quarterly
Journal for Social Critique, Budapest, 26–27 February 2016
‘Native labour’international: Terminology, conceptuality and the geography of the ILO. Paper
presented at the workshop “The International Labour Organization as a Producer of Statistical
Knowledge,”Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 25–26 February 2016
Trade union women and the ‘third shift’ in Hungary in the 1970s. Paper given at the first con-
ference of the European Labour History Network, Turin, 14–16 December 2015
The politics of globalizing gendered labor policy: International labor standards and the global
South, 1919–1939. Invited opening presentation, colloquium, Graduate School for East and
Southeast European Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Universität Regens-
burg, Regensburg, 3 December 2015
Hungarian trade union women and the struggle for equality and difference at the workplace,
1960s–1980s. Invited presentation, international conference “Women’s emancipation and human
emancipation: new approaches to an old question,” Budapest, 11–12 November 2015
Die neue globale Sozialpolitik zu Beginn des 21. Jh.: Transnationale Akteure und die Staaten des
globalen Südens [The new global social policy at the beginning of the 21st
century: transnational
actors and the states in the Global South]. Invited presentation, workshop “Social History Re-
loaded,” Vienna, 5–6 November 2015
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Umkämpfte Internationalisierung des Diskurses zur Rechts(un)gleichheit im Arbeitsrecht. Die
ILO und die internationalen Frauenorganisationen und –komitees der Zwischenkriegszeit [Con-
tentious globalization of the discourse on legal in/equality in labor law]. The ILO and the inter-
national women’s organizations and committees in the interwar period. Invited presentation,
graduate workshop “Fachtagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung,”
Basel, 11–13 September 2014
Night work for white women, bonded labour for colored women? Contentious traditions and the
globalization of gender-specific labour protection and legal equality politics, 1926 to 1939. Invited
key note lecture, conference “Globalizing Gender Norms in the Twentieth Century: Chances,
Challenges, and Impact of International Feminism Before and After World War II,”SNSF-Re-
search Project “Was There a Human Rights Turn in International Gender Policies of the Interwar
Era?,” University of Berne, 13 June 2014
ITH 50. Notes on its History. Invited introductory presentation, “Symposium Connecting
Historians Beyond Borders, 50th Anniversary of the International Conference of Labour and
Social History (ITH),” University of Vienna, 22 April 2014 (http://www.ith.or.at/ith_e/ith_50_
notes_on_its_history_susan_zimmermann.pdf)
The ILO and the international argument on maternity and family policies in the interwar period.
Paper given at the 2013 Conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s
History, Sheffield, 29 August–1 September 2013
Gender equality and gender-specific labour protection in the interwar period. The ILO, the
international women’s movement, and the debate about motherhood protection and the family.
Invited paper, workshop “Women’s ILO: Transnational Networks, Working Conditions and
Gender Equality,” organized by the ILO Century Project in collaboration with the European
Institute of the University of Geneva, Geneva, 6–7 December 2012
Transnational horizons of Hungarian historiography on women and gender, late 1940s to late
1980s. Invited paper presented at the workshop “Transnational History in Central and Eastern
Europe. Traditions and Prospects,” University of Vienna, co-organized by the Institute for East
European History (UV) and Pasts (CEU), 29–30 November 2012
Transparent global history. The contribution of Vienna Global Studies. Invited lecture, Summer
Academy, Österreichisches Studienförderungswerk Pro Scientia, Szombathely, 5 September 2012
Night work for white women, bonded labour for colored women? The international struggle on
labour protection and legal equality, 1926 to 1944. Invited paper for the lecture series at the Inter-
national Research Center on Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History, Humboldt Univer-
sität zu Berlin, 17 April 2012
Grenzüberschreitende Intervention im Dienste der “guten Sache” und der Vormarsch des rechten
Nationalismus in Ungarn [Border-crossing intervention in the service of “human betterment,” and
the rise of right-wing nationalism in Hungary]. Invited presentation, Republikanischer Klub,
Vienna, 18 March 2012
Differential labour standards for “non-metropolitan” workers and imperial world order. The poli-
tics of the ILO, 1920s to 1940s. Invited paper for the workshop convened by Martti Koskeniemmi
and Anne Orford,“International Law and Empire,” Helsinki, Erik Castrén Institute of Interna-
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tional Law and Human Rights and Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University
of Melbourne, Helsinki, 4–6 October 2011
Grenzüberschreitende Intervention im Dienste der “guten Sache“ und solidarischer Internationa-
lismus: Ein Widerspruch in sich? [Border-crossing intervention in the service of “human better-
ment,” and solidaric internationalism: a contradiction in terms?], 47th
Linz Conference, Linz, 29
September – 2 October 2011
Troubled waters. Potentials and realities, paradigms and trends in women’s and gender history.
Paper given at the workshop/conference “Twenty Years of Change: Post-Communist Historio-
graphy in/on Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe,” Budapest, 15–16 September 2011
(together with Alexandra Ghit)
The ILO’s discourse and politics on “native” labour in relation to development in Africa, 1926–
1939. Paper given at the Workshop in conjunction with the research project “Developing Africa:
Development Discourse(s) in Late Colonialism,” Vienna, 13–15 January 2011
Women’s peace activism and the struggle over inter-state and domestic order. The case of the ICW
(1899–1914). Invited paper, presented at the first and second meetings of the working group “Para-
doxes of Peace in 19th
Century Europe” within the ERC-sponsored research project “Between
Restoration and Revolution, National Constitutions and Global Law: an Alternative View on the
European Century 1815–1914,”Helsinki, November 2010, May 2011
The socialist Women’s International and unequal international development. An analytical frame-
work and two examples from Central Eastern Europe. Paper given at the workshop “The Partici-
pation of East Central Europeans in the Early International Organisations (1850–1918),”Centre
for the History and Culture of East Central Europe, Leipzig, 19 October 2010
Klara Zetkin goes international. How the “Female International” of socialist women related to
power and inequality in the inter-state and domestic order. Paper given at the Conference of the
International Federation for Research in Women’s History, Amsterdam, 25–27 August 2010
Kampf für die Rechte der Frauen in Ungarn vor 1918 [The struggle for women’s rights in Hun-
gary before 1918]. Invited lecture given at the Luise-Büchner Bibliothek des Deutschen Frauen-
rings, Darmstadt, Germany, 8 March 2009
Equality without protection? How visions of gender and society and opportunity structures in-
formed women’s cooperation and conflict in relation to Geneva internationalism. Invited paper
presented at the “Rosa Manus Seminar,”International Information Centre and Archives for the
Women’s Movement, Amsterdam, 22–24 October 2008
The long-term trajectory of Antislavery in international politics. From the expansion of the Euro-
pean international system to unequal international development. Invited paper presented at the
colloquium of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences “The Abolition of the Slave
Trade: Long-Term Consequences,” Amsterdam, 30 June–2 July 2008
The ILO and non-metropolitan labour, 1919–1939. Paper presented at the conference “The Past
and Present of the International Labour Organization,” organized by the International Institute of
Social History, Amsterdam, and the Institute for Social History, Ghent, The Royal Flemish
Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels, 5–6 October 2007
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Organized feminist internationalism and the transformation of global inequality. Invited paper for
the conference “Gender History in a Transnational Perspective. A Conference in Honor of Gisela
Bock,” Berlin, 5–6 October 2007
Internationalismus – Forschungsstand und Forschungsperspektiven [Internationalism – research
trends and perspectives]. Invited presentation for the International Conference of Labour and
Social History “Transnational Networks of Labour,” 43d
Linz Conference, Linz, 13–16 September
2007
ILO and Gender. Invited presentation for the Workshop “ILO Century Project:” a volume on the
history of ideas and their impact (1919–2009). International Institute for Labour Studies, ILO,
Geneva, 27–28 August 2007
The institutionalization of women and gender studies in higher education in Central and Eastern
Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Asymmetric politics and the regional-transnational
configuration. Paper given at the conference “Gender, Empire, and the Politics of Central and
Eastern Europe,” Budapest, 17–18 May 2007
A társadalmi nemek tudományának intézményesítése Kelet-Közép Európa és a posztszovjet térség
felsőoktatásában: sikertörténet? [Institutionalization of gender studies in higher education in East
Central Europe and in the Post-Soviet Space: a success story?]. Paper given at the plenary session
of the international pedagocial conference “Képzés és gyakorlat. Interdiszciplinaritás a pedagógiá-
ban” [Education and practice. Interdisciplinarity in pedagogics], Kaposvár, 27 April 2007
Demokratie und Verwestlichung? Gender Studies in Zentralosteuropa und im postsowjetischen
Raum seit den frühen 1990er Jahren [Democracy and Westernization? Gender studies in Central
Europe and in the Post-SovietSpace since the early 1990s]. Paper presented at the Conference
“Nachrichten aus Demokratien. Feministische Positionen und Auseinandersetzungen” [News
from democracies. Feminist positions and debates], Vienna, 26–29 October 2006
Invited commentator and tutor, conference “Rethinking labor from a global perspective,” Wissen-
schaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung und Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 12–14 October 2006
Geschlechtergeschichte und zentralosteuropäische Geschichte: Sollen und Sein [Gender history
and Central-Eastern European history. Sollen and Sein]. Opening lecture given at the international
conference “Geschlechterverhältnisse in Ostmitteleuropa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Soziale
Praxis und Konstruktionen von Geschlechterbildern” [Gender relations in Central Eastern Eu-
rope after the Second World War. Social practice and the construction of visions of gender], Bad
Wiessee, 17–20 November 2005
Gender studies in Central Eastern Europe. Paper presented at the Women’s World Congress,
EWHA University, Seoul, 19–24 June 2005
The European city: A “chimaera.”Round table presentation given at the conference “Auf dem
Weg zur Entgrenzung des Städtischen. Zur Transformation urbaner Öffentlichkeiten durch
Medien und Kommunikationssysteme in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts” [Towards the
dissolution of urban borders. Transformation of urban public sphere through media and commu-
nication systems], Loccum, 19–21 November 2004
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Divergent actors, convergent interests? Gender studies as a strategic tool of transforming higher
education in Central Eastern Europe and the Post-Soviet Space, 1980s to 2004. Paper given at the
international seminar “Genere, memoria e integrazioe europea: sguardi incrociati tra Ovest e Est,”
Università Degla Studi Di Napoli “L’Orientale,” Naples, 5–6 April 2004
European, North-Atlantic, or global? The international dimensions of women’s activism before
1918. Paper given at the CiSoNet Conference “Resources and Dynamics of European Civil So-
ciety – Strategies, Actors and Organizations,” Budapest, 26–28 February 2004
Transnationale Mobilisierung und Politik sozialistischer Frauen und die erste Welle des organisier-
ten Intenationalismus [Transnational mobilization and politics of socialist women and the first
wave of organized internationalism]. Paper given at the conference “Zur Analyse politischer Pro-
teste im 20. Jahrhundert” [Analyzing political protest in the 20th
century], Wissenschaftszentrum
Berlin für Sozialforschung, Berlin, 12–13 September 2003
‘Secondary citizenship,’ class, and Eurocentrism in women’s socialist internationalism in the first
half of the 20th
century. Paper given at the conference “Crossing Borders and Building Coalitions
in Women’s Studies Graduate Education,” Baltimore, 29 June – 4 July 2003
Reich, Nation, und Internationalismus. Konflikte und Kooperationen der Frauenbewegungen der
Habsburgermonarchie [Empire, nation, and internationalism. Conflict and cooperation among
the women’s movements of the Habsburg Monarchy]. Paper given at the conference “Gender-
fragen und kollektive Identitäten in der Habsburgermonarchie 1867–1918” [Gender questions and
collective identities in the Habsburg Monarchy], Vienna, 27–28 March 2003
Geschichtlichkeit des Globalen [Historicizing the global]. Invited presentation (invitation by the
University of Leipzig) at the fourth Leipzig Book Fair 2003, Leipzig, 22March 2003
Reproduction and the division(s) of labor in society in Europe and the US in the second half of
the 20th
Century. Commentary paper in the concluding section of the conference “The Gender of
Politics: The Example of the Reproduction Policies in Austria, Finland, Portugal, Romania,
Russia, and the US,” Vienna, 13 – 15 March 2003
Kulturelle Vielfalt – Ressource für globalen Wandel? [Cultural diversity – ressource for global
transformation?]. Commentary paper given at the plenary session “Kultur und Globalisierung:
politische Verantwortung versus wirtschaftlicher Macht?”[Culture and globalization – political
responsibility versuseconomic power?] at the conference “Grenzenlos Kultur – Kulturpolitik im
internationalen Kontext / Culture Unlimited – Cultural Policy in an International Context,”
Berlin, 15–17 December 2002
Creating and contesting national and transnational feminisms: a historical view from Central
Europe. Paper given at the Panel “Global Connections, Local Conflicts: Feminist Struggles, 1890s
– 1920s” at the“12th
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women,” University of Connecticut,
Connecticut, 6–9 June 2002
Frauenarbeit und staatliche Sozialpolitik in Österreich und Ungarn, 1880 bis 1940 [Women’s
work and welfare policy in Austria and Hungary, 1880 to 1940]. Paper given at the “11. Kollo-
quium der Akademie Friesach: Frauen in der Stadt” [Women in the city], Friesach, 12–16 Sep-
tember 2001
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Women’s and gender studies in a global-local perspective: developing the frame. Paper given at the
international conference “Societies in Transition – Challenges to Women’s and Gender Studies,”
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, 28 June–1 July 2001
A Gyermekvédelem története Magyarországon és Budapesten összehasonlítva a bécsi és az auszt-
riai fejlődéssel [The history of child protection in Hungary and Budapest in comparison to Vienna
and Austria]. Lecture given at the opening plenary session of the “5. Országos Gyermekvédelmi
Konferencia: 100 éves a magyar gyermekvédelem” [5th
national conference on child protection:
Hungarian child protection turning 100], Budapest, 5–7 June 2001
Der Transfer feministischen Denkens und die Entwicklungswege der europäischen Frauen-
bewegung im transnationalen und nationalen Kontext [Transfer of feminist thinking and trajec-
tories of the European women’s movement in transnational and national contexts]. Paper given at
the conference “Identitäten jenseits der Nation? Transnationale Öffentlichkeiten und interkultu-
reller Transfer im 20. Jahrhundert” [Identities beyond the nation? Transnational public spheres
and cultural transfer in the 20th
Century], Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 5–7 October 2000
Conflict between national and international settings? The transnational history of women’s
movements and the Hungarian Case. Paper given at the “19th
International Congress of Historical
Sciences,” Oslo, 6–13 August 2000
Historiography and social sciences in Central and Eastern Europe. History and prospects. Paper
given at the opening session of the conference “Writing and Rewriting History at the Turn of the
Centuries. The State of the Discipline in Central and Eastern Europe,” Kraków, 25–28 May 2000
Lokales Handeln, europäisches Denken? Perspektiven einer international vergleichenden Ge-
schichte der alten Frauenbewegung [Acting locally, thinking European? Towards an international
comparative history of the first wave women’s movement]. Lecture given at the Zentrum für Ver-
gleichende Geschichte Europas, Freie Universität Berlin, 15 May 2000
“Dicstelenség mint megélhetési forma.” Női szegénység és a prostitúció Budapesten és Bécsben
(1860–1920) [“Making a Living of Disgrace.”Female Poverty and Prostitution in Budapest and
Vienna (1860–1920)]. Paper given at the conference “Centuries of Red Lights,” Győr, 30 April
1998
A társadalmi változás koncepcióinak története és a keleteuropai rendszerváltások az 1989–1991
években [Historical concepts of social change and the systemic change in Eastern Europe in 1989–
1991]. Paper given at the conference “Systemic Change: Evolutions or Revolutions,” Budapest, 27
March 1998
Feministák a századforduló Magyarországán – Gárdos Mariska és Schwimmer Rózsika pályaképe
[Feminists in turn of century Hungary – the biographies of Mariska Gárdos and Rózsika Schwim-
mer]. Paper given at the “Social History Conference of the István Hajnal Circle,” Veszprém, 26–
27 June 1997
Variationen der Wohlfahrt? Tendenzen und Probleme vergleichender Sozialgeschichtsschreibung
über Ost- und Westeuropa am Beispiel der Geschichte des Sozialstaats [Variations of welfare?
Trends and problems incomparative social history]. Lecture given at the Arbeitsstelle für Verglei-
chende Gesellschaftsgeschichte, Freie Universität Berlin, 23 May 1997
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Das Geschlecht von Fürsorge und Sozialpolitik. Perspektiven der vergleichenden Geschichte
gesellschaftlicher Arbeitsteilung [The gender of poor relief and welfare policy. Towards a compar-
ative history of the division of labor in society]. Lecture given at the Zentrum für Interdiszipli-
näre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Technische Universität Berlin, 14 May 1997
Welten der Wohlfahrt? Tendenzen und Probleme vergleichender Sozialgeschichtsschreibung
[Worlds of welfare? Tendencies and problems of comparative social history]. Public Lecture given
at the Center for Scientific Research, Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Ljubljana, 11 December
1996
Making a living from disgrace: prostitution and municipal politics in Budapest and Vienna of the
Dual Monarchy. Public lecture given at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 16 April 1996
Egy, kettő, semmilyen mozgalom? Nők társadalmi-politikai törekvései Magyarországon 1848–
1918 [One movement, two movements, or no movement whatsoever? Social and political aspira-
tions of women in Hungary 1848–1918]. Paper given at the Conference “Szerep és alkotás. Női
szerepek a társadalomban és az alkatóművészetben” [Role and creation. Female roles in society
and the creative arts], Budapest, 21–23 March 1996
Zur Soziographie der Frauenfrage. Modernisierung von Geschlechterverhältnissen im Wien der
Jahrhundertwende [On the sociography of the women’s question. Modernization of gender rela-
tions in Vienna at the turn of the century]. Paper given at the international symposium“Such-
Bewegungen. Die Frauen der Wiener Moderne” [Search/movement: women in Viennese
Modernism], Vienna, 17–18 November 1995
Transformationsökonomien und Geschlechterfrage. Ansatzpunkte und Perspektiven der For-
schung [Transformation economies and the gender question. Points of departure and research
perspectives]. Paper given at the international conference “Ökonomischer Wandel und Transfor-
mation der Gesellschaftspolitik in Österreich und in der Tschechischen Republik” [Economic
change and transformation of societal politics in Austria and the Czech Republic], Linz, 27–28
September 1995
Kräfte der Beharrung? Modenisierungskrisen und Politik in Zentraleuropa [Forces of persever-
ance? Crises of modernization and politics in Central Europe]. Paper given at the second Öster-
reichische Zeitgeschichtetag [Austrian contemporary history, annual meeting], Linz, 22–24 May
1995
Die Armen- und Fürsorgepolitik der Behörden und die politische Kultur in Wien und Budapest
(1890er – 1930er Jahre) [Public poor relief, social provision and political culture in Vienna and
Budapest (1890s – 1930s). Paper given at the second Österreichische Zeitgeschichtetag [Austrian
contemporary history, annual meeting], Linz, 22–24 May 1995
Modernisierungswege und Geschlecht: Österreich-Ungarn 1880–1918 [Gender and the trajectories
of modernization: Austria-Hungary 1880–1918]. Paper given at the Forschungsstelle für verglei-
chende Gesellschaftsgeschichte, Freie Universität Berlin, 31 January 1995
Deregulation, European integration, and the changing patterns of work and social reproduction.
Paper given at the conference “Economic Changes and the Impact and Challenges to Social Policy
in Austria and the Czech Republic,” Prague, 28–29 November 1994
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Publications
Monographs
International Labour Standards, Women’s Work, and Unequal Development. The ILO, Woman
Internationalists, and Globalizing Gender Politics, 1919to 1939 (book manuscript in progress).
Frauenpolitik und Männergewerkschaft. Die IGB-Fraueninternationale und die internationale
Geschlechterpolitik der Zwischenkriegszeit [Women’s politics and men’s trade union. The IFTU-
Women’s International and international gender politics in the interwar period] (under contract
with Löcker Verlag, Vienna).
Divide, Provide and Rule. An Integrative History of Poverty Policy, Social Policy and Social
Reform in Hungary under the Habsburg Monarchy, Budapest, New York: CEU Press 2011 (ab-
breviated version published in German in: Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848–1918 [The Habsburg
Monarchy 1848–1918], vol. 9, partial vol. 1 (see below)
Grenzüberschreitungen. Internationale Netzwerke, Organisationen, Bewegungen und die Politik
der globalen Ungleichheit. 17. bis 21. Jahrhundert [Overstepping borders. International net-
works, organizations and movements and the politics of global inequality. 17th
to 21st
centuries],
Vienna: Mandelbaum 2010.
Die bessere Hälfte? Frauenbewegungen und Frauenbestrebungen im Ungarn der Habsburger-
monarchie 1848 bis 1918 [The better half? Women’s movements and women’s aspirations in
Hungary under the Habsburg Monarchy 1848–1918], Vienna, Budapest: Promedia/Napvilág
Kiadó 1999.
Prächtige Armut. Fürsorge, Kinderschutz und Sozialreform in Budapest. Das “sozialpolitische
Laboratorium” der Doppelmonarchie im Vergleich zu Wien 1873–1914 [Splendid poverty. Poor
relief, child provision, and social reform in Budapest. The “social laboratory” of the Habsburg
Monarchy as compared to Vienna 1873–1914] (= Historische Forschungen. Im Auftrag der
Historischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, vol. 21), Sigmar-
ingen: Thorbecke 1997.
Über die Grenzen der Armenhilfe. Kommunale und staatliche Sozialpolitik in Wien und Budapest
in der Doppelmonarchie [Beyond poor relief. Municipal and state-based social policy in Vienna
and Budapest in the Habsburg Monarchy], Vienna, Zurich: Europaverlag1991 (together with
Gerhard Melinz).
Editor
Women’s ILO. Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards and Gender Equity, 1919 to
Present, Leiden: Brill 2018 (together with Eileen Boris and Dorothea Hoehtker).
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Internationalismen. Transformation weltweiter Ungleichheit im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert [Inter-
nationalisms. Transformation of global inequality in the 19th
and 20th
centuries], Vienna: Promedia
2008(together with Karin Fischer).
Sozialpolitik in der Peripherie. Entwicklungsmuster und Wandel in Lateinamerika, Afrika, Asien
und Osteuropa [Social policy in the periphery. Trajectories of development and change in Latin
America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe], Frankfurt/M., Vienna: Brandes und Aspel/Südwind
2001 (together with Johannes Jäger and Gerhard Melinz).
Ungeregelt und unterbezahlt. Der informelle Sektor in der Weltwirtschaft [Unregulated and un-
derpaid. The informal sector in the world economy], Frankfurt/M., Vienna: Brandes und Aspel/
Südwind 1997 (together with Andrea Komlosy, Christof Parnreiter, and Irene Stacher).
Wien, Prag, Budapest. Blütezeit der Habsburgermetropolen. Urbanisierung, Kommunalpolitik,
gesellschaftliche Konflikte (1867–1918) [Vienna, Prague, Budapest. The golden age of the Habs-
burg metropolitan cities. Urbanization, municipal policy, social conflict (1867–1918)], Vienna:
Promedia 1996 (together with Gerhard Melinz).
Urban Space and Identity in the European City (= CEU History Department Working Papers
Series, vol. 3), Budapest: Central European University 1995.
WerkstattGeschichte, special issue “Armut” [Poverty], 4 (1995) 10 (together with Andreas
Ludwig).
L’Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, special issue “Das Geschlecht der
Fürsorge” [The gender of welfare], 5 (1994) 2 (together with Birgit Bolognese-Leuchtenmüller).
Ungarn im Umbruch [Changeover in Hungary], Vienna: Promedia 1991 (together with Franz
Delapina, Hannes Hofbauer, Andrea Komlosy, and Gerhard Melinz).
Articles etc.
The politics of social and political inclusion and exclusion, 1880–1918, in: Pieter Judson and Mark
Cornwall (eds), Cambridge History of the Habsburg Monarchy II, 1790–1918 (together with
Birgitta Bader-Zaar) (in preparation).
“It shall not be a written gift, but a lived reality.” Equal pay, women’s work, and the politics of
labor in state-socialist Hungary, late 1960s to late 1970s, in: Marsha Siefert (ed), Labor in State-
socialist Europe. Contributions to a Global History of Work, Budapest/New York: CEU Press,
2019 (accepted for publication; forthcoming).
Women and Social Movements in the Habsburg Empire, in: Kathryn Kish Sklar, Thomas Dublin
(eds), Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820, Alexander Street Press 2018
[e-publication, 87 pages] https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity|
bibliographic_ details|3890891) (written by Susan Zimmermann with Birgitta Bader-Zaar, Ágos-
ton Berecz, Jitka Gelnarová, Alexandra Ghit, and Michaela Königshofer).
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Female agrarian workers in early twentieth-century Hungary. The making of class- and gender-
based solidarities. Introduction to the source “My letter dated on this first day of June 1908. With
respect to my fellow member Roza Svimmer (Rosika Schwimmer),” in: Aspasia. The Interna-
tional Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History,
12 (2018), 121–128.
Review of Vesela Tutavac, Ilse Korotin (eds), “Wir wollen der Gerechtigkeit und Menschenliebe
dienen …” Frauenbildung und Emanzipation in der Habsburgermonarchie – der südslawische
Raum und seine Wechselwirkung mit Wien, Prag und Budapest, Praesens Verlag 2016, in: Aspasia.
The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women’s and Gen-
der History, 12 (2018), 188-191.
The agrarian working class put somewhat centre stage. An often marginalized group of workers
in the historiography of labor written in state-socialist Hungary, in: European Review of His-
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Entries on Mariska Gárdos; Vilma Glücklich; Róza Schwimmer (co-authored with B. Major);
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Gender Studies in Zentral-Osteuropa und im post-sowjetischen Raum. Teil 2: Akteur/innen und
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L’Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 16 (2005), 63–88.
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and early 20th
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“Making a living from disgrace.” The politics of prostitution, female poverty and urban gender
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Europäische, universelle und oppositionelle Wege. Entwicklung und sozialer Wandel als Problem
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universal and oppositional trajectories. Development and social change as a problem of global
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special issue “Globalgeschichte” [Global History], 1998, 40–57.
Az utolérő fejlődés a társadalomkritikai gondolkodásban. Egy feltáratlan viszony tőrténetéről és
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(1997) 1, 153–158.
Mit den Waffen der Sozialpolitik? Wohnungspolitischer Interventionismus in Österreich und
Ungarn von 1890 bis in die 1930er Jahre [With the weapons of social policy? Interventionalism in
housing policy in Austria and Hungary from 1890 to the 1930s], in: Clemens Zimmermann (ed.),
Europäische Wohnungspolitik in vergleichender Perspektive (1900–1939)/ European Housing
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Sittenpolizei [Moral police], in: Felix Czeike (ed.), Historisches Lexikon Wien [Historical ency-
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Frauenarbeit, soziale Politiken und die Umgestaltung von Geschlechterverhältnissen im Wien der
Habsburgermonarchie [Women’s work, social policy and the transformation of gender relations
in Vienna of the Habsburg Monarchy], in: Lisa Fischer, Emil Brix (eds), Die Frauen der Wiener
Moderne [Women of the Wiener Moderne], Vienna, Munich: Böhlau Verlag 1997, 34–52.
Der informelle Sektor: Konzepte, Widersprüche und Debatten [The informal sector: concepts,
contradictions, and debates], in: Der informelle Sektor 1997 (see under Edited volumes), 9–28
(together with A. Komlosy, Ch. Parnreiter, I. Stracher).
Geschützte und ungeschützte Arbeitsverhältnisse von der Hochindustrialisierung bis zur Welt-
wirtschaftskrise. Österreich und Ungarn im Vergleich [Protected and unprotected labor relations
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Compared], in: Der informelle Sektor 1997 (see under Edited volumes), 87–115.
Kräfte der Beharrung? Modernisierungskrisen und Politik in Zentraleuropa [Forces of persever-
ance? Crises of modernization and politics in Central Europe, in: Rudolf G. Ardelt, Christian
Gerbelt (eds), Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag 1995. 22. bis 24. Mai 1995 in Linz. Österreich –
50 Jahre Zweite Republik [Austrian contemporary history annual conference. 22th
– 24th
May 1995
in Linz. Austria – 50 Years Second Republic], Innsbruck, Vienna1997, 314–319.
Die Armen- und Fürsorgepolitik der Behörden und die politische Kultur in Wien und Budapest
(1890er – 1930er Jahre) [Public poor relief and social care and political culture in Vienna and
Budapest (from the 1890s to the 1930s), in: see above, 252–257.
Texts of the exhibition: Gyermeksorsok és gyermekvédelem Budapesten a Monarchia idején / Kin-
derschicksale und Kinderschutz in Budapest im Zeitalter der Monarchie [The fate of children and
child provision in Budapest during the Monarchy], in: Gyermeksorsok és gyermekvédelem Buda-
pesten a Monarchia idején/Kinderschicksale und Kinderschutz in Budapest im Zeitalter der Mo-
narchie. Katalog zur Ausstellung in der Ervin Szabó Stadtbibliothek, Budapest [The fate of chil-
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Vom Götzen der Familie zum Götzen des Marktes. Über die Modernisierung der Geschlechter-
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Moderne. Österreich vom Faschismus bis zum EU-Beitritt. [Towards modernity. Austria from
Fascism to joining the EU] (= Kritische Geographie, vol. 11), Vienna1996, 210–230.
Die aktive Stadt. Kommunale Politik zur Gestaltung städtischer Lebensbedingungen in Budapest,
Prag und Wien (1867–1914) [The active city. The shaping of urban living conditions through
municipal policy in Budapest, Prague, and Vienna (1867–1914)], in: Wien, Prag, Budapest 1996 (see
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Großstadtgeschichte und Modernisierung in der Habsburgermonarchie [Urban history and mod-
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15–33, 245–250 (together with G. Melinz).
Világgazdasági és társadalmi mozgások a két világháború között [Changes in the world economy
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From the “Worker-Mother” to the Mother? Review of Barbara Einhorn, Cinderella Goes to
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Fordulat a Főváros szociálpolitikájában. A magyar szociálliberalizmus helye a gazdasági-társadalmí
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Zwischen Versorgung und “Verwahrlosung.” Kinderschutz und Jugendfürsorge in Wien und
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and youth in Vienna and Budapest, 1870 to 1920], in: Wiener Geschichtsblätter 49 (1995) 3, 150–
168 (together with G. Melinz)[Revised version in Hungarian, in: The fate of children and child
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Foreword, in: Urban Space and Identity in the European City 1995 (see under Edited volumes),
6–8.
Editorial, in: WerkstattGeschichte 4 (1995) 10, 3–5 (together with A. Ludwig).
Armenfürsorge, Kinderschutz und Sozialreform in Budapest und Wien in der Habsburgermon-
archie [Poor relief, child provision, and social reform in Budapest and Vienna in the Habsburg
Monarchy], in: Geschichte und Gesellschaft 21 (1995) 3, 338–367 (together with G. Melinz).
A szegénygondozás szociálpolitizálása vagy radikális szociálreform. Kommunális szociálpolitika
Budapesten és Bécsben 1914 előtt [Transforming poor relief into social policy or radical social
reform?], in: György Kövér (ed), Magyarország társadalomtörténete I. Szöveggyüjtemény [Social
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Getrennte Wege. Wohlfahrtspolitik und gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozess in Wien und
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eins für Geschichte der Stadt Wien, 50 (1994), 269–315 (together with G. Melinz).
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poor relief. Welfare policy in Budapest and Vienna 1873–1914], in: L’Homme. Zeitschrift für
feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 5 (1994) 2, 19–40.
Editorial, in: L’Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 5 (1994) 2, 3–4
(together with B. Bolognese-Leuchtenmüller).
Im Namen der ungarischen Auferstehung. Nationalistische Strömungen und nationalistische
Politik in Geschichte und Gegenwart eines “weniger entwickelten” Landes [In the name of Hun-
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developed” country], in: Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (ed), Nationalismen und Krieg in Europa
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