I am a historian in training at the University of Vienna, specializing in the history of the Holocaust in Central and Eastern Europe. My research examines the mechanisms and consequences of persecution across the region, with particular interests in antisemitic propaganda, interethnic collaboration and resistance, provenance research of confiscated Jewish property, gendered experiences of violence, and the economic dimensions of persecution.

Alongside my studies, I work at the Institute of Contemporary History as a student assistant and tutor, where I support teaching, administration, and research. I also mentor students in academic writing in both German and English across several departments. These roles have strengthened my pedagogical skills and deepened my commitment to accessible, rigorous historical education.

In July 2025, I contributed to the organization of the workshop for the FWF project “Bonds of Intimacy and Dependency. Survival Strategies of Intermarried Families in Nazi-Dominated Europe,” led by Holocaust scholar Michaela Raggam-Blesch. This experience allowed me to engage closely with current research on family histories, survival strategies, and the complexities of intimacy under persecution.

Currently, I am conducting a provenance‑historical study on the case of the technikhistorian Hugo Theodor Horwitz at the Technisches Museum Wien. My research focuses on reconstructing the institutional pathways through which Horwitz’s scientific materials entered the museum during the National Socialist period, and on analyzing how these materials were classified, integrated, and subsequently handled within the museum’s collections until their restitution in 2007. Drawing on archival sources, internal museum documentation, and the broader historiography of knowledge appropriation under National Socialism, I examine the entanglement of scientific value, bureaucratic routines, and persecution‑driven dispossession. The project aims to clarify not only the mechanisms of the original seizure but also the museum’s long‑term institutional treatment of the materials — including the decades‑long absence of critical reflection on their provenance — and to situate the Horwitz case within wider debates on the ethics of scientific heritage and the responsibilities of postwar institutions.

In parallel, I am involved in an interdisciplinary research project with Andreas Liebsch that examines a corpus of 14 texts written by first‑semester history students at the University of Vienna. Using a linguistically grounded approach, we investigate how students apply disciplinary knowledge in writing, how they mobilize metadiscursive and epistemic resources, and how their texts display emerging patterns of argumentation, stance, and knowledge organization. Our methodology combines qualitative linguistic analysis with clustering and typologization procedures, enabling us to identify recurring profiles of early academic writing practices and to trace the heterogeneity of students’ developing academic literacies. The results of this study will be published in zisch: Journal of Interdisciplinary Writing Research in late 2026.

My work is grounded in a strong regional and linguistic foundation. I am a native speaker of Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Montenegrin and speak German and English at an advanced academic level (C1/C2). I also have working knowledge of Spanish and French, and since 2025, I have been learning Hungarian and Polish to deepen my engagement with Central and Eastern European source material and scholarship.