The social historian with a focus on the 20th century in Southeast Europe concentrates his research on the history of work and gender under socialism, housing, everyday life and popular culture. Methodologically, he works with oral history, grounded theory and other qualitative, interpretative methods that combine social science approaches with social historical research. In his current research project, Dr. Archer is investigating the history of intra-Yugoslav Albanian migration during late socialism.

Career stages:

• Center for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz: Assistant (2010-2013), Research Associate (2014-2016), Head of Research (2020-2024)
• Chair for the History of Eastern Europe, University of Konstanz, Germany: Lecturer/Postdoctoral Researcher (2019-)
• School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, United Kingdom: Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (2016-2018)
• Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary: Visiting Lecturer (2019-)
• Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia: Visiting Lecturer (2017-)

Projects, grants and fellowships:

• Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  To the Northwest! Intra-Yugoslav Albanian migration (principal investigator, €282,245.25, University of Graz, 2020-2024)
  Between Class and Nation: Working class communities in 1980s Serbia and Montenegro (project co-author and researcher, led by Prof. Florian Bieber, University of Graz, 2014-2018)
• Institute for Advanced Studies, Kőszeg, Hungary
  Postdoctoral researcher (October 2018- January 2019)
• Center for Advanced Studies, University of Rijeka, Croatia
  Fellowship on "Risky Thinking: Engagement and Action for Social Change" (February 2019)
• Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
  H2020 Incoming Fellowship (June-September 2018)
• WTZ OeAD Mobility Exchange (Austria/Macedonia)
  Shifts in class and national identities in Macedonia since 1980. Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje (project leader, 2016-2018).

Memberships

• Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
• Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
• British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)
• European Labour History Network (ELHN), Coordinator of working group "Labour Migration History"