Mario Wimmer

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Mario Wimmer studied History, Sociology, Psychology and Science Studies in Vienna, Berlin and Bielefeld; PhD in Modern History (2010). Previously he worked as a Research Associate and Curator (a.o. "The Memory of Mauthausen") at the Department of Contemporary History in Vienna, Austria (2003-2004). In 2008 he was awarded the Gerda Henkel-Fellowship for the History of Ideas at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, Germany. He was Junior Fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, IFK, Vienna (2008-2009) followed by a visiting scholarship at the Department of History and the Office for the History of Science at the University of California, Berkeley, USA (2009-2010). He taught courses in modern European history and academic writing at the Universities of Vienna and Bielefeld and was Visiting Assistant Professor at the ECNU Shanghai, China (Summer 2010). In December 2010 he joined the Chair for Science Studies as an ETH Postdoctoral Fellow working on his new project "Cultures of Timelessness and the Emergence of an Historical Sense" and finishing his book on "Archival Bodies".

His research interests include the history of European modernity, the cultural and institutional history of historical knowledge, archives, intellectual practice and scholarship; other eras of research and teaching are the history and memory of National Socialism, the history of media and popular culture, and the writing of history