Barbara Reiterer is a Doctoral Fellow in Residence at the GHI, where she is a member of the team working on the research project "Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1940-1980." She studied sociology at the University of Vienna and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Located at the intersection of her main research interests (history of the social sciences, gender and science, and history of migration), her dissertation investigates the lives and careers of Central European women social scientists who immigrated to the United States around World War Two

• History of the Social Sciences and Social Research
  
• History of Migration
• Transnational and Comparative History
• Gender and Science
• History of Biology and Ecology

• Traveling between Worlds: Gender, Exile, and the Framing of Social Science Careers in Central Europe and the United States, 1940-1980 more...

since 2010	Doctoral Fellow in Residence, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
Summer 2010	Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria
2007 - 2010	Teaching Assistant, Program in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
2006 - 2007	Research Assistant/Postgraduate Fellow, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
2003 - 2006	Project Administrator and Researcher, Sociology Department, University of Vienna, Austria.

Since 2007	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Ph.D. in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (expected 2013). Proposed title: Traveling between Worlds: Gender, Exile, and the Framing of Social Science Careers in Central Europe and the United States, 1920-1980. Dissertation advisors: Susan Jones and Sally Gregory Kohlstedt.
2003	Magister (social and economic sciences) in Sociology, Vienna University, Austria; Die Entwicklung der ‘Latent Structure Analysis' von Paul F. Lazarsfeld.

Since 2010	Dissertation Fellowship, German Historical Institute, Washington, DC.
2009	Thesis Research Grant, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, for archival research in Vienna; travel grant for pre-dissertation Research, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota, for archival work at Columbia University, New York.
2009	Edwin Layton Teaching Award, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota.
2008	Block-Grant Scholarship, Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Minnesota, funding for one semester.
2008 - 2010	Travel grants for presenting at conferences from the Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (both University of Minnesota), and the Department of Contemporary History, University of Vienna.
2006 - 2007	Postgraduate Scholarship, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, one-year funding awarded by the BMBWK (Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science, and Culture).

Courses taught as instructor or teaching assistant at Vienna University (Austria), the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, Minnesota), and the University at Graz (Austria) include:

University of Graz, Austria, 2010 (instructor):

• Introduction to Sociology

University of Minnesota, 2007-2010 (teaching assistant):

• Science and American Culture
• Revolutions in Science: Lavoisier, Darwin, and Einstein
• Biology and Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• Life on Earth
• American Science and Technology in the Past Century
• Technology and Civilization: Waterwheels to the Web

University of Vienna, 2005 (co-instructor):

• Theorie und Praxis der Sozialforschung in Österreich, 1907-1964

University of Vienna, 2002-2004 (teaching assistant):

• Datenanalyse
• Forschungsplanung und -management