Michaela Raggam-Blesch

Michaela Raggam-Blesch (Dr. Phil.) is a historian at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences with a post doctorate in “Everyday life and persecution of women and men of ‘half-Jewish’ descent in Vienna, 1938-1945”. She formally worked for the Leo Baeck Institute in New York (1999-2003) and was among the first fellows at the Center for Jewish History Fellowship, New York (2003). She was part of the curatorial team of an exhibit on transit camps before deportation from Vienna (2016) and received the Elise Richter post-doc scholarship by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, 2017). Her key fields of research include Austrian Jewish history of the 19th and 20th centuries, Oral History, Autobiography and Memory Studies, Holocaust Studies, and Gender Studies. www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ikt/the-institute/staff/research-staff/michaela-raggam-blesch/