Tamara Scheer

Tamara Scheer (born 1979 in Vienna) is an Austrian historian and adjunct professor

(''Privatdozentin'') at the Institute for East European History at University of Vienna.

Education

Scheer studied history and law at the University of Vienna and achieved her history doctorate in 2006 at the same university. In November 2020 she habilitated, received the venia docendi for Modern and Contemporary History, at University of Vienna. Her habilitation thesis dealt with: "Language Diversity and Loyalty in the Habsburg Army, 1867-1918."

Academic Career

From January 2025 she is principal investigator of an FWF funded research project entitled "Language Diversity: Habsburg Austria and the Roman Catholic Church"[https://www.fwf.ac.at/forschungsradar/10.55776/PAT1679824] at the Department of Biblical Studies and Historical Theology at University of Innsbruck.[https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2024/fwf-fordert-13-projekte/]

In Winter Term 2024-25 she is a visiting professor at the Institute for History at University of

Academic Year 2023/24 ''Universitätsprofessur'' (gemäß UG 2002, §99) for the non-German Dimension of Austrian history, 18th-21st century at the Institute for East European History, University of Vienna.

since November 2019: head of a research project at Pontifical Institute Santa Maria dell' Anima in Rome. about the identification of Habsburg POWs in Italy.

From 2017 to 2023: FWF-Elise-Richter-Fellow at the Institute for East European History/University of Vienna.

From 2013 to 2017: FWF-Hertha-Firnberg-Fellow at Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science.

From 2010 to 2012: Post-Doc-Head of the Doctoral School and ÖAD-Fellow at Andrássy University Budapest

(Competitive) Short-Term Fellowships brought her to Trinity College Dublin (2014), Czech Academy of Sciences (2016) European University Institut Florence (2017/18), the University of Oslo (2018), Masaryk Institute at the Czech Academy of Sciences (2016), and the Institute for Contemporary History in Ljubljana. Provided by Wikipedia