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Katja Geiger-Seirafi


katja.geiger-seirafi[at]oeaw.ac.at

 

born 1978 in Vienna

Katja Geiger studied history in Vienna. From 2006-09 she was member of the PhD program “The Sciences in Historical Context" at the University of Vienna. In 2009 she became scientific assistant at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and received her PhD from the University of Vienna in 2013. She worked at several projects on the history of psychiatry and the history of biology. 2017-19 she carried out provenanc research at the Museum for Natural History in Vienna. 2018-22 she was member of the scientific staff of the working group “History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1847–2022” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). 2016 she was awarded the „Edith Saurer Preis“ for a project that deals with the question of mental health care for refugees in Vienna (1945-1960).

Areas of Spezialisation

History of Science, History of Medicine, History of Psychiatric

Publications (selection)

Publications (selection)

together with Thomas Mayer, The Establishment of Human Genetic Counselling in Austria in the Establishment of Human Genetics and the Eugenic Indication of Abortion, in: Heike Petermann, Peter Harper, Susanne Doetz (eds.), Aspects oft he History of Human Genetics Anthology, Berlin 2017.

together with Thomas Mayer, Flucht als Problem und Chance in der Wiener Nachkriegspsychiatrie, in: Daniela Angetter, Birgit Nemec, Herbert Posch, Christiane Druml, Paul Weindling (eds.), Strukturen und Netzwerke. Medizin und Wissenschaft in Wien 1848-1955 (= 650 Jahre Universität Wien – Aufbruch ins neue Jahrhundert 5), Göttingen 2018. 669-692.

together with Thomas Mayer, „Ostmarkdeutsche als Forscher und Sammler in unseren Kolonien.“ Kolonialforschung, koloniale Sammlungen und museale Repräsentationen im Naturhistorischen Museum in Wien 1938-1945, in: Pia Schölnberger (ed.), Das Museum im kolonialen Kontext. Annäherungen aus Österreich, Wien 2021, 257-280.

together with Johannes Feichtinger, Umweltforschung an der ÖAW. Ein Fallbeispiel für Institutionalisierung und Entinstitutionalisierung [Chapter 21], in: Feichtinger/Mazohl (eds.), Die Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1847–2022. Eine neue Akademiegeschichte. Vol. 2, Vienna 2022, 11–59.)