Katharina Scharf

Katharina Scharf is a historian and has been a post-doc in research and teaching at the Department of Cultural and Gender History at the University of Graz since 2021. Her research focuses on gender, women's, cultural, environmental, tourism and regional history as well as the history of National Socialism. She completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in History and German Studies at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg. Her master's thesis on Nazi women in Salzburg was awarded the Erika Weinzierl Prize in 2016 and published in 2021 by Anton Pustet Verlag in an updated form under the title "Kartoffelschaukochen, illegale Kämpferinnen und Krieg. Women in National Socialist Salzburg" published by Anton Pustet Verlag. Her dissertation on the comparative history of tourism in Salzburg and Savoy was also recently published by StudienVerlag "Alpen zwischen Erschließung und Naturschutz" and the UTB volume "Europäische Regionalgeschichte" by Böhlau Verlag (with co-author Martin Knoll).
For her current habilitation project on the women's and gender history of environmental activism in Germany and Austria, she has received both a post-doctoral track fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (third-party funded project) and a Rachel Carson - Simone Veil Fellowship (Rachel Carson Center & Project House Europe) in Munich. In a recently published Zeitgeschichte article "Die Umweltbewegung in Österreich aus frauen- und geschlechterhistorischer Perspektive. A Long-Time History", parts of the research project are presented.

Among other things, she is co-organizer (with Heidrun Zettelbauer) and research member of the doctoral programme "Interdisciplinary Gender Studies" and the "Gender Cluster" (HUK) at the University of Graz as well as Regional Representative for the German-Speaking Countries (with Robert Groß) in the ESEH (European Society for Environmental History) and member of the EHCA (Environmental History Cluster).