CV Berthold Molden
Education and career 1999 Mag. phil. (University of Vienna) 2000–2002 DOC Scholarship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2005 Dr. phil. (University of Vienna) 2005–2010 PI for Cold War memory studies, Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres 2010 Visiting professor in Global History, University of Vienna Mellon Scholar, University of Chicago 2011–2012 General Secretary, 54th International Congress of Americanists 2012–2014 Marshall Plan Chair, University of New Orleans 2014–2015 Chaire Alfonso Reyes, Université Sorbonne III 2015 Chaire Amérique latine, EPEA, Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse 2017–2019 Director of the public history project „Historias Cruzadas“, Austria / Mexico Since 2006 Lecturer at the University of Vienna
Research foci Global intellectual history (especially between Europe and the Americas) History of the Global Cold War and decolonization Memory theory Politics of history Contemporary Austrian history
Recent research projects Public history project “Historias cruzadas | Gekreuzte Geschichten. Der März 1938, Diktatur, Exil und Migration im globalhistorischen Licht österreichischmexikanischer Beziehungen” (“Intersected Histories. March 1938, dictatorship, exile and migration in the global history perspective of Austro-Mexican relations”), Austrian Federal Chancellery / Austrian Future Funds / Austrian National Funds, 2018–2019 Research project“Authoritarian Tendencies in Austria’s Second Republic”, Austrian Future Funds, 2016–2019 Research project “The Intellectual Biography of Friedrich Katz”, ‘Austrian Future Funds / Botstiber Foundation, since 2014
Selected Publications
Monographs Políticas sobre la historia en Guatemala, 1996-2005. Historiografía, justicia pos-guerra y resarcimiento. Guatemala: AVANCSO, 2014 (German edition 2007) Sehnsucht nach dem starken Mann? Autoritäre Tendenzen in Österreich seit 1945, Vienna: Böhlau, 2019 (with M. Dolezal, P. Grand, and D. Schriffl) Grenzfälle. Österreichische und tschechische Erfahrungen am Eisernen Vorhang, Weitra: Bibliothek der Provinz, 2009 (with M. Blaive) (Czech edition 2009) Edited books Gekreuzte Geschichten. Mexikoplatz 1938-2018 | Historias cruzadas. Plaza de México 1938-2018, Vienna: bahoe books, 2019 (bilingual, Spanish and German) EUtROPEs. The Paradox of European Empire, Chicago: University of Chicago, 2014 (edited with J. Boyer) Friedrich Katz. Essays on the Life and Work of a Transnational Historian, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2012 (edited with M. Kaller and D. Mayer) Vielstimmige Vergangenheiten. Geschichtspolitik in Lateinamerika, Münster-Hamburg- Berlin-London-Zurich-Vienna: LIT, 2009 (edited with D. Mayer) Selected articles “The Southern Struggle for Global Justice. Anti-colonial Politics of History Before the Neoliberal Turn.” In J. Mark (ed.), Criminalising Violent Pasts: Multiple Roots and Forgotten Pathways: 1950s-2010s (= themed issue of Humanity, forthcoming 2020) “The Many Families of a Young Cosmopolitan. Snapshots of Friedrich Katz in Paris, New York and Mexico (1938-1949)”. In S. Rose & P. Giraud (eds.), Cosmopolitismes dans les Amériques (1900-1968) (= Ordinaire des Amériques 223 [2017]), http://journals.openedition.org/orda/3906 “Resistant pasts vs. mnemonic hegemony: On the power relations of collective memory.” In: Memory Studies 9/2 (2016), pp. 125-142 “The Reconciliation Trap: Genocide and the Power Relations of Historical Memory in Post-War Guatemala.“ In: Journal of Genocide Research 18 (2016), pp. 323-342 “Vietnam, the New Left and the Holocaust: How the Cold War changed discourse on genocide.” In A. Assmann & S. Conrad (eds.), Memory in a Global Age, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, pp. 79-96