Welcome to KFG Fellow Claudia Kraft
02.03.2026
We are glad to welcome our Senior Fellow Claudia Kraft at the KFG.
Claudia Kraft is a Professor at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna since March 2018. She specializes in 20th century comparative European and particularly Central and Eastern European History. Her main fields of research are gender history, history of everyday life in state socialist societies after World War II, history of forced migrations after World War II, memory cultures and politics of history in Central and Eastern Europe, comparative legal history, and new approaches to area studies (as developed for instance in the concept of “phantom borders”). She has recently published a special issue (together with her Viennese colleague Tim Neu) about “Social Struggles and the Entanglement of Political Participation and Fundamental Rights” with Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 36/1 (2025).
