Kerstin S. Jobst

Kerstin Susanne Jobst is a German historian and professor. Since 2012 she has taught at the Institute for East European History at the University of Vienna.

Life and works Kerstin Susanne Jobst was born in Hamburg. Between 1982 and 1989 she studied History, Psychology, Literature and Finno-Ugristics at the University of Hamburg, with a couple of lengthy secondments at Vienna. Between 1989 and 1992, supported by a post-graduate stipendium from the Hamburg University Foundation and the Hamburg Rotary Foundation, she was able to study Slavistics and undertake further studies in preparations for higher academic qualification at the universities of Mainz, Krakow and Vienna. The dissertation, published in 1996 (and online in 1998), carries the subtitle, "A contribution to the "Nationalities Question" under the Habsburg monarchy".

Both before and after receiving her doctorate, Jobst was employed, between 1992 and 1995, as a research assistant, and then as a researcher, at the Army University (" Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr") in Hamburg. Her daughter was born in 2002. The habilitation dissertation earned Jobst a "Venia Legendi", amounting to an authority to teach Modern and East European History at the University of Hamburg. Alongside her teaching duties at Hamburg, between 2006 and 2012 Jobst became a frequent presence at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, where she held a guest professorship.

The focus of Jobst's research is on the history of Eastern Central Europe and of Eastern Europe, the Black Sea and the Caucasus regions. She takes a particular interest in the Habsburg monarchy, comparative imperial and colonial research, religious history and hagiography, remembrance culture, the politics of history and the history of tourism in Eastern Europe. Another speciality is disaster research. She is a member of the Commission for the Southeast Europe - Turkey - Black Sea at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Humanities ("Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften"), a member of the Austria-Russia Historians Commission (" Österreichisch-Russische Historikerkommission") and a member of the Military History Advisory Group at the Academicians Commission of the Austrian Defence (and between 2009 and 2018 Sports) Ministry.