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Dr. Barbara Hausmair is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Innsbruck, where she leads the Department of Medieval and Modern Archaeology. Her research spans historical archaeology, social identity studies, and burial practices from the early Middle Ages to the present, with a focus on Central Europe.
- Education: PhD in Prehistory and Early History (2013, University of Vienna), Habilitation (2024, University of Innsbruck)
- Research Themes:
- Archaeology of the Nazi era (conflict legacy, forced labor camps, memory discourse)
- Critical archaeology (interdisciplinary methodologies, ethics in historical research)
- Computer-aided methods (GIS, statistical modeling, databases)
Her 2024 Habilitation thesis explores identity formation during crises, building on projects like the documentation of Nazi prisoner tokens and Natzweiler camp evaluations. She has held funded positions at institutions including the Free University of Berlin and University of Konstanz.
Scientific awards include the Erwin Wenzel Prize (2014) and Grete Mostny Dissertation Prize (2014). Her work often intersects with bioarchaeology, landscape archaeology, and archaeology of modernity.
She supervises theses on topics like early medieval cemeteries, GIS mapping, and Nazi camp archaeology, and contributes to editorial boards of journals like Forum Critical Archaeology and Contributions to Medieval and Modern Archaeology in Austria.
