Univ. Prof. Dr. phil. Anna Minta

Univ. Prof. Dr. phil.

Anna Minta

M.A.

Professor of History and Theory of Architecture
Head of Institute

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Gebäude: Neubau 4. Stock, Raum 430

Personal data

  • Date of Birth 18.03.1970
  • Place of Birth Düsseldorf, Germany
  • Languages German, English, French, Latin, Ivrit/Modern Hebrew

Education

  • from - until school (university), place, country, degree
  • 1982 - 1989 Goethe High School, Neu-Isenburg, Germany
  • High School Graduation
  • 1990 - 1998 Studies in Art History (Master Major); Media and Communications Studies (Master Minor) and Modern History (Master Minor), Free University Berlin, Germany
  • 1993 - 1994 Studies in Town- and Regional Planning ath the Technical University Berlin, Germany
  • 1998 Master's Degree in Art History, Free University Berlin, Germany
  • 2003 Ph.D. in Art History, Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany
  • 2013 Habilitation (second book) in Art History, Bern University, Switzerland

Scholarships and studies abroad

  • from - until scholarships (exchange programme), institution, place, country
  • 8-9/1993 Participant at the European Campus of Heritage and Environment in Györ, Hungary, funded by the European Community. International workshop for students, art historians, and architects
  • February – June 1995 Project Assistant, Department of the History of Urban Design, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture gta, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland

Professional experience and teaching activities

  • 1-3/1999 Free-lance work at the House of the World Cultures in Berlin, Germany
  • 3-11/1999 Project Coordinator in the international research project by Ford Motor Company, Detroit, on cooperate history of American companies, their German subsidiaries, and the use of forced labor in the Third Reich; Hannover, Germany
  • 6/1999-5/2003 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Lecturer) at the Department of Art History, Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany
  • 6/2003-10/2005 Wiss. Mitarbeiterin (Researcher), interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center "Institutionality and Historicity," Technical University Dresden, Dept. of Architectural History, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Dresden, Germany
  • 11/2005-1/2014 Post-Doc/Wiss. Assistentin (Assistant Professor), Department of Art History, Bern University, Switzerland.
  • 6/2014-12/2018 SNSF-Professor, Department of Art History, Zurich University, Switzerland, funded by the Swiss National Foundation. Research Project: “Holy Spaces in Modernity. Transformations and Architectural Manifestations‿
  • Since 3/2016 Full Professor, History and Theory of Architecture, Catholic Privat-University Linz, Austria.
  • 11/2016-08/2022 Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Art History
  • 2022/23 (Winter term) Visiting professor for Art History and History of Architecture at Technische Universität Wien (Faculty of Architecture and Planning)

Memberships

  • Since 1991 Member of the Association of German Art Historians
  • Since 2012 Member of the Ulmer Verein. Association for Art History and Cultural Studies
  • 2012-2019 Member of the editorial board of „kritische berichte. Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften“ (critical reports. Journal for Art History and Cultural Studies) of the Ulmer Vereins
  • Since 2015 peer reviewer for the bfo-Journal (online-journal)
  • Since 2016 Member of the editorial board of „kunst und kirche. Zeitschrift für Kritik, Ästhetik und Religion“ (art and church. Journal for critic, aesthetic, and religion)
  • Since 2016 Member of AcademiaNet. European Expert Database of Outstanding Women in Academia (Record Minta)
  • Since 2016 Board member: Diözesankunstverein Linz (Art Association of the Diocese of Linz)
  • Since 2018 Member of the Associations of Austrian Art Historians
  • Since 2019 Board member, since 2021 deputy chairman: afo architekturforum oberösterreich (architectural forum Upper Austria)
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