Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik

Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik is a historian specializing in late medieval and early modern cultural, gender, and knowledge history. She currently serves as a university assistant (with doctorate) at the Institute for Austrian Historical Research within the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna. Her work emphasizes cross-cultural interactions between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, focusing on media, knowledge networks, and migration studies.

Educational Background:

• Studied history and German studies at the University of Pécs
• Studied history at the University of Graz
• PhD in history from the University of Graz

Research Interests center on handwritten newspapers (avvisi), Turkish memory in Central Europe, and comparative political communication. She explores how knowledge transfer shaped relationships between European and Ottoman intellectual communities, particularly during the Enlightenment.

Scientific Awards:

• Pro Scientia Gold Medal (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
• Hertha Firnberg Fellowship (Austrian Science Fund)

Grants and Projects include funding from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Gerda Henkel Foundation, Habsburg Institute in Budapest, and Collegium Hungaricum in Vienna. She was principal investigator for Transcultural Exchange: the Habsburgs and the Ottomans, 1520–1620 and The European Republic of Letters and the Ottoman Empire: Knowledge Transfer and Networks of Knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment.

Advisory Roles include membership on the scientific advisory boards of the Schlossberg Museum in Graz and the Baden State Museum in Karlsruhe’s Emperor and Sultan exhibition.