SUSAN ZIMMERMANN

Professor

Contact

zimmerma at ceu hu

Education:

“Habilitation” Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (Austria) 2000.

“Habilitáció” Eötvös Loránd University Budapest (Hungary) 1999.

Ph.D., Universität Wien 1993 (history of social policy, urban history, comparative social change).

Research Areas:

History of Central European women’s movements; comparative internationalisms; histories and concepts of social change in a local-global perspective; comparative history of welfare policy.

Selected Publications

The Long-term Trajectory of Antislavery in International Politics. From the expansion of the European international system to unequal international development, in: Marcel van der Linden (ed.), TBA, 2010 (submitted; in print preparation)

A Struggle over Gender, Class, and the Vote. Unequal International Interaction and the Birth of the “Female International” of Socialist Women, in: Oliver Janz, Daniel Schönpflug (eds): Oliver Gender History in a Transnational Perspective, New York 2010 (submitted; in print preparation)

Special Circumstances in Geneva. The ILO and the World of Non-Metropolitan Labour in the Interwar Period, in: Gerry Rodgers, Lee Swepston, Eddy Lee, Jasmien van Daele (eds), The International Labour Organization and the Quest for Social Justice 1919-2009, Geneva/Ithaca 2010 (in print)

Gender Regime and Gender Struggle in Hungarian State Socialism, in: Aspasia. International Yearbook for Women’s and Gender History of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe 2010 (in print)

Internationalismen. Transformation weltweiter Ungleichheit im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert [Internationalisms. Transformation of Global Inequality in the 19th and 20th Centuries] (editor together with K. Fischer, and including “Reform-internationalisms and the transformation of global inequality. 19th and 20 centuries”), Vienna 2008

International-transnational. Forschungsfelder und Forschungsperspektiven [International-transnational. Research fields and research perspectives], in: Berthold Unfried (ed.), Transnational Networks of Labour, vol. 42: 43d Linz Conference 2007, Leipzig 2008, 27-46

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 Configu¬ration, in: East-Central Europe/L’Europe du Centre-Est: Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, 34–35 (2007–2008) part 1–2, thematic issue: “Social History in East Central Europe,” 131–160

The Challenge of Multinational Empire for the International Women’s Movement: The Case of the Habsburg Monarchy, in: Journal of Women’s History 17 (2005) 2, 87-117

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.-Wien 2001 (edited and introduction together with J. Jäger, G. Melinz, and including the study “Welfare policy and state socialist strategies of development in the “other”half of Europe in the 20th century”), Frankfurt/M. 2001

Die bessere Halfte? Frauenbewegungen und Frauenbestrebungen im Ungarn der Habsburgermonarchie 1848 bis 1918 [The Better Half? Women’s Movements and Women’s Endeavors in Hungary under the Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918], Wien-Budapest 1999

Ungeregelt und unterbezahlt. Der informelle Sektor in der Weltwirtschaft [Unregulated and Underpaid. The Informal Sector in the World Economy], Frankfurt/M.-Wien 1997 (edited and introduction together with A. Komlosy, Ch. Parnreiter, I. Stacher, and including the study “Protected and unprotected labor relations from the time of the peak of industrialization to the world economic crisis. Austria and Hungary compared”)

Prachtige Armut. Fursorge, 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 Compared to Vienna 1873-1914] (Historische Forschungen. Im Auftrag der Historischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, vol. 21), Sigmaringen 1997

Current Research Projects

Internationalisms and the Globalization of the Nation State in the Short 20th Century. An Entangled History

The project explores the complex history of how international(ist) aspirations and politics were engaged with re-enforcing or challenging pre-existing structures and hierarchies in the global inter-state system, and how local activists and organized groups on the ground tried to influence, shape, and change related politics within organized internationalism. Based on the study of a number of international organizations and their local constituencies I argue that this interaction at times played an important role in promoting “self-determination” of populations and territories within multinational empires and under imperial or colonial rule. The geographical focus of the case studies follows these dynamics of gradual globalization of the nation state.

Awards, Honors, Scholarships/Fellowships

Hungarian Ministry for 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

Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin for the research project “Historicizing the global and globalizing local histories”, Academic Year 2002/2003

Käthe Leichter Award 2001 for the study Die bessere Halfte?

Research grant of the Austrian Academy of Science: Austrian Program for Advanced Research and Technology (APART). 3-year “Habilitation” fellowship 1996-2000 (including a period of maternal leave)

Eduard Marz Award 1996 for Ph.D. thesis

Special Award 1992 of the Osterreichische Gesellschaft fur Stadtgeschichtsforschung for Research on Central European Urban History (together with G. Melinz)

Recent Course Offerings

The Gender of Welfare Worldwide - 2 credits

Internationalism and the Transformation of Global Inequality Reform Politics Across Borders, 19th and 20th Centuries - 2 credits

The Uses of Comparative and Integrative Perspectives for Women’s and Gender Studies - 4 credits

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