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Research Interests
(Post-)Colonialism: visual and material cultures, cultural memory; Micro-history: violence, borderlands, and belonging; History of modern Italy: colonialism, fascism, nation- and empire-building; First World War: everyday life and memory; National socialism: universities in Austria before, during and after National socialism

Research Area(s)
Central and Southern Europe (Germany, Austria, Italy), European borderlands (Südtirol/Alto Adige), Eastern Africa

Profile

Markus Wurzer is a historian. He studied history and German language and literature at the Universities of Graz and Bologna. He was a research assistant and lecturer at the Department of History at the University in Graz as well as a university assistant at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University in Linz. His research has taken him to the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome, the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Harvard University in Cambridge/MA and the European Academy (EURAC) in Bolzano/Bozen. He is co-coordinator of www.postcolonialitaly.com and member of the Steering Committee of "Evidence and Imagination - Special Editions". Wurzer has received numerous prizes for his work, including the 2016 award of the Dr. Alois Mock Europa-Stiftung for his MA thesis and the 2019 award of the Theodor Körner Fonds for his dissertation. In his PhD thesis he focused on Italy's colonial enterprise against Ethiopia (1935-1941) in visual culture and family memories. Drawing on the photographs of Italy’s German-speaking soldiers from the province of Bolzano/Bozen as a case study, the thesis explored private photographic practices, the construction and diffusion of colonial (and fascist) visual culture, and followed its persisting traces in family memory until the present day.

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