Wladimir Fischer

Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier, Mag. Dr., is research associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Habsburg History Section). From 2013 to 2015 he was a researcher at the Dept. for Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck in  the project  „Deprovincializing Contemporary Austrian History. Migration and the transnational challenges to national historiographies (ca. 1960- today)“; he has worked for the Department of History at the University of Vienna from 2009 to 2013 and supervised the FWF project 21493 “Difference and the City: Minority Migrants in Vienna around 1900”; he studied Slavonic philology and history in Vienna where he graduated in 1997 (Mag. phil.) and earned a doctorate in 2002 (Dr. phil.); in 2010 he was a guest researcher at the Immigration History Research Center and the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis; in 2006 he was an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester; from 2006 to 2008 he was a research fellow of the BMBWK at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Urban History in Vienna; from 2004 to 2005 he was involved in a FWF project at the Departments of German Philology and History at the University of Vienna; in 2003 he was a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen and worked for both the Institute for European Integration Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Centre for Social Research at the University of Bergen; in 2002 he was responsible for a preliminary study of the “History and Culture of Migrants from the Former Yugoslavia in Vienna” commissioned by Wien Kultur/Magistratsabteilung 7; from 2000 to 2001 he was a research associate at the Canadian Centre for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta in Edmonton; from 1999 to 2001 he worked on a FWF project at the Department of Romance Philology at the University of Vienna; from 1998 to 1999 he was a guest researcher at the Research Centre on the European Enlightenment; from 1997 to 1998 he was in charge of a project at the Department of Economic and Social History at the Vienna University of Economics and Business; from 1996 to 1997 he contributed to a project at the Institute of Austrian Historical Research; since 2004 he has worked as a lecturer within the framework of an interdisciplinary series of lectures on the Balkans at the University of Vienna; he has published extensively on the politics of identity and the cultural production of migrants from Southeast Europe, e.g., Narrating the City. History, Space and the Everyday. London – New York 2015 (ed. with Matthew P. Berg); Räume und Grenzen in Österreich-Ungarn 1867-1914: Kulturwissenschaftliche Annäherungen, ed. (together with W. Heindl, A. Millner, and W. Müller-Funk) (Tübingen and Basle 2010); Dositej Obradović als bürgerlicher Kulturheld: Zur Formierung eines serbischen bürgerlichen Selbstbildes durch literarische Kommunikation 1783-1845 (Frankfurt/Main 2007).