dorota.vargova(at)oeaw.ac.at
Dorota Vargová is a research associate in the research unit History of the Habsburg Monarchy.
Vargová studied history at the University of Vienna. She was awarded a Short-Term Grant Abroad (KWA) for archival research on her master’s thesis. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant at the Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO). After completing her Master’s degree, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies (IHB) in the project The Blind Duke: The Revolutionary Career of Louis Engelbert of Arenberg between the Habsburg, Holy Roman, and Napoleonic Empires (PI: William D. Godsey). Since 2023, she has been a doctoral candidate at the University of Vienna working on her thesis The Dynamic of Action of the Duke and the Duchess of Marlborough in the Context of the Socio-Political Landscape of Early 18th Century England, supervised by Katrin Keller. For the presentation of her doctoral work abroad, Vargová was awarded the BSECS Postgraduate and Early Career Conference Award (Edinburgh). Her doctoral research stays abroad were funded by the Scholarship for Research Support of the University of Vienna (research in London, Manchester, Oxford – as a Visiting Fellow of the German Historical Institute) and Huntington Library Fellowship (Los Angeles, USA). She is currently a research assistant in the FWF-funded project Family Matters. Female Dynastic Agency and Correspondence under the direction of Katrin Keller and also works in the project Die Tagebücher von Karl Zinzendorf als Quelle für eine wissenschaftliche Biografie des Kaisers Franz II./I. under the direction of William D. Godsey (funded by the Kommission für Neuere Geschichte Österreichs).
Period: 17th–18th century
Area: Habsburg Monarchy, England
Topics: Early Modern Court Society, Gender History, Cultural History
