Oliver Rathkolb

Biography

Oliver Rathkolb, born in 1955, is Professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. Previously, he was the founding director of the interdisciplinary peer reviewed Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres in Vienna 2005-2008. Also, he was a Schumpeter Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University from 2000-2001 and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago in 2003.

He is author of several books focusing on contemporary history as well as editor and co-editor of several studies concerning interdisciplinary questions of contemporary history and communications/media history and the managing editor of the journal “zeitgeschichte” (Contemporary History), the journal is listed group A in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH PLUS). His prize-winning study “The Paradoxical Republic. Austria 1945-2005” was published by Berghahn Books (New York/Oxford) in 2010 and as a paperback edition in 2014. Rathkolb is a member of the advisory board of the “House of European History” (European Parliament, Brussels) and of the Jewish Museum Vienna. He is the chairman of the advisory board of the “House of Austrian History”.

Selected publications:

Since 2014 Citations 1118 356; h-index 15 9; i10-index 30 9
8 research monographs, editor of 7 volumes, co-editor of 32 edited books, 217 scientific contributions in peer reviewed publications and books.

RATHKOLB Oliver. “Autoritäres Potenzial und demokratische Werte in Österreich 1978 – 2004 – 2017“ In juridikum
1/2018, 80-91 (peer reviewed)
RATHKOLB, Oliver. “Demokratiegeschichte Österreichs im europäischen Kontext.“ In Die österreichische Demokratie im Vergleich, edited by Ludgar Helms and David M. Wineroither. 71-103. 2. Auflage, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2017.
RATHKOLB, Oliver. Fiktion „Opfer“ Österreich und die langen Schatten des Nationalsozialismus und der Dollfuß-Diktatur. Österreich – Zweite Republik. Befund, Kritik, Perspektive, Vol. 21, Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2017.
RATHKOLB, Oliver. “Holocaust Perceptions of Immigrants in Austria.” In Holocaust Memory in a Globalizing World, edited by Jakob S. Eder, Philipp Gassert and Alan E. Steinweis, 45-60. Göttingen: Wallenstein Verlag, 2017.
RATHKOLB, Oliver. “The Fact-finding Missions of the Socialist International in the Middle East, 1974-1976.” In Détente in Cold War Europe: Politics and Diplomacy in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, edited by Elena Calandri, Daniele Caviglia and Antonio Varsori, 171-92. London: I.B.Tauris, 2016.
RATHKOLB, Oliver. “Zeit- und Gegenwartsgeschichte und die Mühlen der Institutionalisierung auf Fakultätsebene nach 1945.“ In Reflexive Innensichten aus der Universität: Disziplinengeschichten zwischen Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik, edited by Karl Anton Fröschl, Gerd B. Müller, Thomas Olechowski and Brigitta Johanna Schmidt-Lauber, 179-190. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2015. (peer reviewed)
RATHKOLB, Oliver. “Erika Weinzierl. Eine Historikerin als kritische Stimme in der späten II. Republik.“ In Universität – Politik – Gesellschaft, edited by Mitchell G. Ash and Josef Ehmer, 341-347. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2015. (peer reviewed)
RATHKOLB, Oliver. ”Forced Labour in Industry.” In Germany and the Second World War: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Exploitation, Interpretation, Exclusion, Vol. IX/II, edited by Jörg Echternkamp, 669-732. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 (peer reviewed)
RATHKOLB, Oliver. The Paradoxical Republic: Austria 1945 – 2005. Paperback edition. Translated by Otto Binder. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014 (peer reviewed)
RATHKOLB, Oliver and Günter Ogris. eds. 2010. Authoritarianism, History and Democratic Dispositions in Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic. Innsbruck: Studienverlag.
RATHKOLB, Oliver. “Brandt, Kreisky and Palme as Policy Entrepreneurs: Social Democratic Networks in Europe's Policy towards the Middle East.” In Transnational Networks in Regional Integration: Governing Europe 1945-1983, edited by Wolfram Kaiser, Brigitte Leucht and Michael Gehler, 152-76. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. (peer reviewed)
RATHKOLB, Oliver. “Austria and the United States, 1944-1989.” In Peaceful Coexistence" or "Iron Curtian": Austria, Neutrality, and Eastern Europe in the Cold War and Détente, 1955-1989, edited by Arnold Suppan and Wolfgang Müller, 125-45. Münster: LIT-Verlag, 2009.


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