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Dr. Jessica Richter, MSc
Contact
E-Mail: jessica.richter@uibk.ac.at
Room: 40731, 7. Floor
Consultation hours: by appointment
News
Publications
Die Produktion besonderer Arbeitskräfte. Auseinandersetzungen um den häuslichen Dienst in Österreich (1880-1938), Berlin/Boston 2024.
Construction of Il/Legitimate Migrant Labor: Non-Nationals in Domestic Service and Gardening in Interwar Austria, in: Austrian History Yearbook (2024) - online (First View), 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0067237824000572
A preprint (Accepted Manuscript) can be accessed here: https://phaidra.fhstp.ac.at/detail/o:5553
New Rights and Hierarchies: Regulating Seasonal Farm Labour (Austria, 1918–1938), in: Beate Althammer (ed.), Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights. Historical Experiences from the 1870s to the 1970s (= Routledge Studies in Modern History), London/New York 2023, 119-140. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003261261-8
A preprint (Accepted Manuscript) can be accessed here: https://phaidra.fhstp.ac.at/detail/o:5554
Talks
„Home Sweet Superfood. ‚Valuable‘ Soy and Climate Change in Media Frames“. Values in Agrifood Studies – From Theory to Empirical Examples, Innsbruck 10-11 October 2024.
Conference paper in collaboration with Georg Vogt, Yulia Belinskaya, Johanna Daser und Andreas Gebesmair: „Creating Trust and Tension: Framing Climate Change in the Media and Public Debate.“ 16th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA): Tension, Trust and Transformation, Porto, 27.-30. August 2024.
About me
I am a historian and a social scientist at heart. From October 2024, I will be working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck. Adopting a gender and labour history perspective, I have investigated research questions that concerned the history of service in private households and agriculture, seasonal work, and mobility/migration. I have focussed on rural and urban Austria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Particularly, I was interested in how workers were hierarchised on the basis of gender, citizenship, and (social or regional) origin and how their activities were valued differently.
In September 2024 I moreover accepted responsibility for the Collection of Biographical Records at the University of Vienna https://wirtschaftsgeschichte.univie.ac.at/en/research/collection-of-biographical-records/. Based on the records collected here, I am going to develop a new research project that deals with belonging, work and mobility in the household context – for example with im/mobile livelihood strategies and their implications for gender specific divisions of labour and hierarchies.
After studying social sciences (Diplom) at the Leipniz University of Hanover and European Regional Development (MSc) at Cardiff University, I completed my doctorate in history at the University of Vienna in 2017 with a thesis on domestic service. In 2024, it was published with the title “Die Produktion besonderer Arbeitskräfte. Auseinandersetzungen um den häuslichen Dienst in Österreich (1880-1938)” by De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Open Access https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110633351/html). Almost continuously since 2016, I have also been a researcher at the Institute of Rural History in St. Pölten https://www.ruralhistory.at/en?set_language=en. There, I headed the Department of Agricultural and Food History (AgriFood) in 2021/22.
Research and teaching interests
- Women’s and Gender History
- History of work and livelihoods
- Personal accounts
- Migration and mobility
- Rural societies in the late 19th and 20th centuries
Publications
You can find my publications in ORCiD. https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-3022-8033