Third-party-funded projects
Researchers at the Faculty of Humanities are involved in a wide range of research projects. They devise, plan and lead outstanding projects with a large and transdisciplinary impact.
Here we present third-party-funded research projects, listed according to the beginning of the project duration:
Research projects 2024
EU PROGRAMMES
► EU-CoWork – Developing Compassionate Workplaces
Principal investigator: Assoc. Prof. Mag.rer.soc.oec. Dr.phil. Klaus Jürgen Wegleitner
Grant amount: € 692,643.75
FWF PROJECTS
► Hierarchies and networks. The castles of Wildon (Styria)
Principal investigator: Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.phil. Manfred Lehner
Grant amount: € 356,025.88
► Developing academic writing - a genre-based longitudional intervention study
Principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Sabine Elisabeth Schmölzer-Eibinger
Grant amount: € 410,671.08
► Digital Edition of Gumpenhuber’s Theatre Chronicles (GuDiE)
Principal investigator: Priv.-Doz. Dr.phil. Ingeborg Zechner, MA.
Grant amount: € 641,147.47
Research projects 2023
EU-PROGRAMMES
► Digital Humanities in the ERC project "German arithmetical treatises in manuscripts of the late middle ages (1400-1522). A study on philology, history and culture based on a digital edition of the treatises"
Principal investigator Uni Graz: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Georg Vogeler, M.A.
Grant amount: € 299.468,75
► Digitalization of Cultural Heritage as Discursive Practice
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Georg Vogeler, M.A.
Grant amount: € 199.440,96
► Making Morality Impartial: An Experimental Investigation of the Veil of Ignorance
Principal investigator: Mag.phil. Dr.phil. Thomas Pölzler, MA
Grant amount: € 271.743,84
► Eco-Storytelling: A Digital Toolbox for the English Classroom for Building a Climate-Just Future
Principal investigator: Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.phil. Roberta Patricia Maierhofer, M.A.
Grant amount: € 138.082
FWF-PROJECTS
► Freedom’s Journal and the Intermedial Power of Periodicals
Principal investigator: Scott Zukowski, PhD
Grant amount: € 316.036,52
► A Critical History of Genetics and its Implications in Central Eastern Europe
Principal investigator: Victoria Shmidt, Ph.D
Grant amount: € 408.602,68
► Franz Brentano: The First Comprehensive Intellectual Biography
Principal investigator: Mag. Dr.phil. Thomas Binder
Grant amount: € 351.074,22
► Women-translation-activism in German-speaking countries, 1848-1933
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Pekka Kujamäki
Grant amount: € 152.879,37
► The Ontology and Future of Gauge Theories
Principal investigator: Dr.phil. Philipp Berghofer, BSc MA
Grant amount: € 543.490,5
► Multifunctionality in Morphology
Principal investigator: Marko Simonovic, PhD
Grant amount: € 511.623
► History as a Visual Concept: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae
Principal investigator: Mag. Roman Bleier, MA PhD
Grant amount: € 405,012.3
► Focus on Fortifications in Asia Minor: Archaeological investigation of the Main Gate of Side as a key monument in assessing the development and dating of complex court gate constructions
Principal investigator: Mag. Dr.phil. Ute Lohner-Urban
Grant amount: € 310,233
► Managing Maximilian (1493-1519) - Persona, Politics, and Personnel through the Lens of Digital Prosopography
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Georg Vogeler, M.A.
Grant amount: € 539,640.84
► Lupus in fabula - Ancient Fable Poetry. Commentaries and Narratological Approaches to a long-neglected Genre
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Ursula Gärtner
Grant amount: € 204,674.4
► In a Roundabout Way: Theory and Practice of Indirect Communication
Principal investigator: Ass.-Prof. Dr.phil. Katharina Felka
Grant amount: € 143.671,49
PROJECTS WITH OTHER FUNDING SOURCES
► Transforming the Anxieties of Ageing: Framings and Politics of Demographic Change in Southeastern Europe
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.phil. Ulla Kriebernegg
Grant amount: € 379,000
Research projects 2022
EU-PROGRAMMES
► A history of "Making Things" in West Africa, 1920-1980
Principal investigator: Mag.phil. Katharina Oke, PhD
Grant amount: € 199,642.59
► Fictional Science (FiSci) - Promotion of Critical Textual Competence in Dealing with Fake News
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.phil. Sabine Elisabeth Schmölzer-Eibinger
Grant amount: € 161,605
FWF-PROJECTS
► Reading the Past from the Surface of the Earth
Principal investigator: Mag. Dr.phil. Wolfgang Göderle
Grant amount: € 130,466
► Imperial building activity in Ostia after the Severans
Principal investigator: Dr. Marcello Turci
Grant amount: € 164,080
► The turn to cosmovision: challenging translation theory
Principal investigator: Assoz. Prof. Dr. Rafael Schögler
Grant amount: € 148,526
► "Tout Vienne me riait: Family and Court Relations in the Memoirs of Countess Louise Charlotte von Schwerin"
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Georg Vogeler, M.A.
Grant amount: € 140,235
► Contacts between Jews and non-Jews in private spaces
Principal investigator: Dr.phil. Susanne Korbel, BA. MA.
Grant amount: € 294,015.98
►A multi-level model of MS student engagement
Principal investigator: Giulia Sulis, MA. PhD
Grant amount: € 294,015.98
► Deriving Discourse Configurationality of (East) Slavic
Principal investigator: Svitlana Antonyuk, MA. PhD
Grant amount: € 177,980
► Kofler aural. Aurality and writing process - a digital genetic edition
Principal investigator: Mag. Dr.phil. Helmut Werner Klug
Grant amount: € 191,806.39
► Akrasia and Weakness of Will: Toward a Phenomenological Approach
Principal investigator: Dr.phil. Denis Dzanic
Grant amount: € 294,015.98
► Philosophical practice in palliative care and hospice work. The role of philosophical reflection for developing caring cultures and death literacy
Principal investigator: Patrick Schuchter, PhD
Grant amount: € 383,297.25
PROJECTS WITH OTHER FUNDINGS SOURCES
► Caring-Living-Labs Graz. Shaping urban care spaces together, fairly, in diversity
Principal investigator: Assoz. Prof. Mag.rer.soc.oec. Dr.phil. Klaus Jürgen Wegleitner
Grant amount: € 188,217.2
► The architecture of the Lower Agora of Pergamon
Principal investigator: Mag. Dr.phil. Ursula Quatember
Grant amount: € 124,500
► Beetween Modality and Tense - Studies on the Uses of Modal Verbs and Preteritopresentia in Old High German
Principal investigator: Mag.phil. Philipp Pfeifer, BA
Grant amount: € 115,500
► SISTE VIATOR. Latin on stone 2.0. Latin inscriptions for digital and extracurricular learning (LIDAL)
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Ursula Gärtner
Grant amount: € 347,985.39
Research projects 2021
EU-PROGRAMMES
► Redefining the future of cultural heritage, through a disruptive model of sustainability
Principal investigator: Ass.-Prof. Chiara Zuanni, PhD
Grant amount: € 320.125
► Migrant Authors from Southeastern Europe and the Transfer of Intangible Heritage
Principal investigator: Dr. Yvonne Živković
Grant amount: € 174.167,04
► Early Medieval Glosses And The Question Of Their Genesis: A Case Study On The Vienna Bede
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Georg Vogeler, M.A.
Grant amount: € 174.167,04
FWF-PROJECTS
► Philingk: Linked Knowledge on the History of Philology and Linguistics
Principal investigator: O.Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Bernhard Hurch
Grant amount: € 219.002,7
► The erotetic and the aesthetic. How linguistics and narratology concur in accounting for narrative suspense in literature
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Victor Edgar Onea Gaspar
Grant amount: € 289.957,5
► Co-operative art techniques
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Robert Felfe
Grant amount: € 323.064
► Celtic Divine Names in the Inscriptions of Germania Superior
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.habil. Wolfgang Spickermann
Grant amount: € 394.682,82
► A Political Conception of Transitional Justice
Principal investigator: Dr. Romina Andrea Frontalini Rekers
Grant amount: € 246.120
► The Re-import of Analytic Philosophy to German Academia: A Case Study on the Role of Rudolf Haller
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ursula Renz
Grant amount: € 367.689
► 6.500 Years of Solitude? Diachronic Pottery Research in Arcadia
Principal investigator: Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr.phil. Elisabeth Trinkl
Grant amount: € 394.770,88
► Digital Archive Barbara Frischmuth
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Klaus Kastberger
Grant amount: € 107.143,08
► Demography and society in historical Southeastern Europe: a comparative analysis of variation between and within countries
Principal investigator: Mag. Dr.phil. Siegfried Gruber
Grant amount: € 381.491,25
► Camera Caucasica
Principal investigator: MMag. Dr.phil. Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur
Grant amount: € 176.290,00
► (Musical) Improvisation and Ethics: A Pragmatic Reassessment
Principal investigator: Dr. Caroline Gatt
Grant amount: € 455.485,45
PROJECTS WITH OTHER FUNDINGS SOURCES
► Die Polizei in Österreich: Brüche und Kontinuitäten 1938-1945
Project investigator: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Barbara Stelzl-Marx
Grant amount: € 345.346,31
► Aging in Data
Project investigator: Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr.phil. Ulla Kriebernegg
Grant amount: noch offen
► Let's Talk about Gender: Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer in Education
Project investigator: Nicole Haring, Mag. BA. MA.
Grant amount: € 115.500
Research projects 2020
EU-PROGRAMMES
► DiaLog – Students Discuss Controversial Questions about Climate Change
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.phil. Sabine Elisabeth Schmölzer-Eibinger
Grant amount: € 140,946.5
FWF-PROJECTS
► When Your Native Language Sounds Foreign
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Catharina Henrica Elisabeth Mennen, PhD
Grant amount: € 397,124.03
► Franz Waxman: Between Film Music and Concert Hall
Principal investigator: Dr.phil. Dr.phil. Zechner, MA.
Grant amount: € 332,068.91
► Between Production and Reception: The Authority of Medieval Documents
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Georg Vogeler, M.A.
Grant amount: € 246,925.67
► The Language of the Arab Minority in Southern Iran
Principal investigator: Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr.phil. Dina El Zarka
Grant amount: € 324,542.4
► Meaning in Life and the Future of Humanity
Principal investigator: Dr. Jonathan Knutzen
Grant amount: € 162,080
► Czechoslovak Intelligence Services in Austria
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Barbara Stelzl-Marx
Grant amount: € 402,352.65
► Knowledge, Checking and Other Epistemic States
Principal investigator: Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr.phil. Guido Melchior
Grant amount: € 349,818
► Intergenerational Climate Justice and Basic Needs
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Lukas Meyer
Grant amount: € 364,856.73
PROJECTS WITH OTHER FUNDINGS SOURCES
► The Meaning of Evaluative Language
Principal investigator: Ass.-Prof. Dr.phil. Katharina Felka
Grant amount: € 394,936.49
► App-solute News
Principal investigator: Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr.phil. Ulla Kriebernegg
Grant amount: € 143,196.95
► Unknown Images - Amateur Films and their New Perspectives on Yugoslavian Everyday Life
Principal investigator: Hanna Stein, MA. MA.
Grant amount: € 115,500
► The Temple District of St. Michael am Zollfeld
Principal investigator: Julia Leitold, BA. BA. MA.
Grant amount: € 115,500
► Just, Fair and Politically Sustainable Decarbonisation: A Knowledge Base and Toolkit for Policymakers
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil.Lukas Meyer
Grant amount: € 199.983