Thomas Süsler-Rohringer has joined the Chair for Modern History in January 2020. He serves as InechO's Project Manager and also as Scientific Coordinator of Project House Europe.
Before coming to Munich, he pursued his PhD at the Technical University Berlin and was a doctoral fellow of the International Max Planck Research School “Moral Economies of Modern Societies” at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development in Berlin and Junior Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna. His PhD thesis explored the cultural and gender history of social policy and the re-integration of disabled veterans during the First World War in the Habsburg Monarchy (1880–1918).
His particularly interested in the study of empires, the welfare state, gender studies, participation and democratization. He is currently working on a new research project focusing on communicative strategies and practices between the forerunners of today's EU and citizens, situating them in the broader re-negotiations of post-1945 democratic orders in Europe. He is particularly interested in how mutual perceptions and expectations shaped these interactions.