Mag. theol. Dr. phil. Andreas Schmoller

Mag. theol. Dr. phil.

Andreas Schmoller

Director of the Franz and Franziska Jaegerstaetter Institute

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Education

  • 2006–2009: PhD, History, University of Salzburg
  • Dissertation: ‚Vergangenheit, die nicht vergeht. Das Gedächtnis der Shoah in Frankreich seit 1945 im Medium Film (Holocaust Memory in French film since 1945)
  • 9/2001–8/2002: Teacher training in French and Religion, High school Bad Ischl/Austria
  • 1995–2000: MA, Theology and Romance languages and literature (French), University of Salzburg (= High school teaching certificate)
  • Dissertation: ‚Projekt Weltethos – Auf dem Weg zu einem gemeinsamen Ethos der Religionen?‘ (‘Project Global Ethics – Towards shared ethics in world religions?’)

Previous Positions

  • 11/2017–4/2018: Researcher of the project ‘Syriac Christianity: Creative Options for Diaspora Futures’ (Grant by the Syriac Institute Salzburg)
  • 4–10/2016: Paternity leave
  • 4/2014–3/2016: Postdoctoral researcher of the project ‘Narratives of Diaspora – Middle Eastern Christians in Austria’ (Project grant by the Science Fund of the Österreichische Nationalbank, Anniversary Fund, no. 15825)
  • 10/2010–3/2014: Postdoctoral researcher of the project ‘Protagonists, Beneficiaries and Victims. Provenance Research at the University Library of Salzburg’ (Project grant by the Austrian Science Fund, no. P22917)
  • 07–11/2012: Paternity leave
  • 8/2001–11/2010: Head of the pedagogical department of the Museum for Contemporary History and the Concentration Camp Memorial Ebensee
  • 9/2002–5/2005: Research assistant and member of the research team KZ-memoria scripta at the Department for Romance languages and literatures (Project grant by the Austrian Science fund, N° P15639). Research area: Autobiographical literature of French concentration camp survivors.
  • 6/2000–5/2001: Community service

International Mobility

  • 01/2024: Erasmus+ Mobility Training, Titus Brandsma Institut, Univ. of Nijmegen/NL
  • 07/2022: Erasmus+ Mobility Training, Institut Catholique de Paris
  • 3/2014: Erasmus Teaching Staff Exchange, Guest Lecturer at Fatih Universitesi Istanbul/Turkey
  • 6-7/2001: Seminary ‘Holocaust in Education’ at the International School for Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem/Israel, funded by Austrian Ministry of Education.
  • 3-7/1999 Studies in Theology in Fribourg/CH.

Academic Teaching

  • Since 2023: Lecturer at the Department of Practical Theology, University of Salzburg
  • Since 2022: Lecturer at the Catholic University of Linz
  • 2018: Lecturer at the Department of Biblical Studies and Church History, University of Salzburg
  • 2011–2018: Lecturer at the Department of History, University of Salzburg

Independent Research and Public History Projects

  • 2017: Investigator for the project ‚Klänge und Filme –  Eine multimediale Landkarte Österreichs für Archivaufnahmen‘ conducted by the Austrian Media Library, Vienna
  • 2012–2013: Investigator for the project ‘The city of Salzburg in the 3rd reich’ (Project grant by the municipality of Salzburg)
  • 2008–2009: Film co-directing of ‘Wege nach Ebensee’ (together with Philipp Bruckschlögl, film biography, festival screening at Crossing Europe 2010 in Linz)       
  • 2007–2008: Historical Exhibition ‘invisible – Resistance movement in the Salzkammergutregion’ in Strobl/Salzburg (Concept and author with Klaus Kienesberger)
  • 2007: Interviewer for the project ‘European Memory landscapes’ directed by Harald Welzer,  Institute for advanced studies in the humanities, University of Essen
  • 2006–2007: Collaborator and Co-Author of the Project ‚Dictionnaire critique de la littérature européenne des camps de concentration et d'extermination nazis‘ (Grant by European Commission, directed by David Serrano, Centre d'Investigació de la Literatura Europea Concentracionària, Sabadell/Spain) 

Activities and Memberships

  • Member of the "Centre for the Study of Eastern Christianity", University of Salzburg
  • Advisory Board Member of the project 'Rewriting Global Orthodoxy. Oriental Christianity in Europe between 1970 and 2020', ERC-2018 ADG, directed by Prof. Helèen Murre van den Berg
  • Mentoring support for Syrian academics in exile together with Fiona McCallum Guiney for the NGO CARA (the Council for At-Risk Academics), 2020/21
  • External Reviewing for Journals: Journal of Church & State, International Migration Review, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies etc.
  • Board Member of the NGO ‘Initiative Christlicher Orient’ 2018-2022

 

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