Project position

Junior researcher

Reading group

Material culture and cultural anthropology

Research fields

Russian and Qing Empire building and imperial administration
Cultural transfer, ethnic categorization

Bio

Ziehaus Stephanie MA pursued her Bachelor of History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna, with an exchange semester at the University Federico II, Naples in 2011-2015. In 2015-2018 she finished her Master of history at the University of Vienna, involving a research stay at the Russian State University of Humanities, Moscow and Federal Archives in St. Petersburg. In 2019 she began her PhD in Global History with the dissertation topic: Empire Building and Cultural Transfer in Inner Asia. Currently she is studying at the Beijing Normal University, conducting research in the First Historical Archives.