Hannah Riedler is a historian specializing in modern East Central and Southeastern European history. She received her PhD in History from the University of Klagenfurt in 2024. Her research interests include forced migration, occupation and population policies in Eastern Europe during the Second World War, as well as regionalism and nation-building in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Southeastern Europe. Her current research focuses on Moldavia and its political, economic, and cultural integration into the Romanian nation-state between 1859 and 1918. Her first monograph, based on her prize-winning dissertation, Fahrt ins Ungewisse. Die deutschen und sowjetischen Deportationen im doppelt besetzten Polen 1939–1941 im Vergleich, was published by Böhlau in 2025. Recent articles include “Totalitarian Empires? German and Soviet Policies of Deportation in Poland 1939–1941 Compared” (Totalitarismus und Demokratie, 2026) and “From Empire to Elsewhere. Eastern Galicia in the Viennese Press, 1919–1920” (Contemporary European History, 2026). She has also published on the history of Moldavia, including studies of political rule around 1600 and of nineteenth-century representations of Moldavia and Wallachia.
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Period of affiliation:
2026 - 2027
Organisation:
Austrian Academy of Sciences