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
► Developing Compassionate Workplaces in Europe for the digital work environment and new ways of working to protect workers' mental health and wellbeing when faced with serious illness, family caregiving, death, dying and loss [in progress]
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