Markus Wurzer

Dr. Markus Wurzer is a contemporary historian and currently a research associate at the Institute of History at the University of Graz, in the Department of History Didactics. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Research Group "Alpine Geschichten des globalen Wandels: Zeit, das Eigene und das Fremde im deutschsprachigen Alpenraum" at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale. He studied history and German at the Universities of Graz and Bologna. He was a research assistant at the Institute of History in Graz and a university assistant at the Institute of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Linz. His research has taken him to the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome, the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna, the European University Institute in Florence, Harvard University in Cambridge/MA and the European Academy in Bolzano/Bozen. He is co-coordinator of www.postcolonialitaly.com. Wurzer has received several scholarships and prizes for his work, including the Dr. Alois Mock-Europa-Stiftung award for his diploma thesis in 2016 and the Theodor Körner-Fonds award for his dissertation in 2019.