Rolf Bauer
Dr. Rolf Bauer
Institute of Social Ecology
Location Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Wien
Email rolf.bauer@boku.ac.at
Environmental history Global history Economic history Social history
Research Focus
- Famines in colonial India; Global history of psychoactive substances
Career
- 2025 Researcher at the Institute of Social Ecology (BOKU University)
- 2022 - 2024 Visiting Professor for Modern South Asia (University Vienna)
- 2021 - 2023 Guest Professor at the Department of History (Central European University Private University – CEU GmbH)
- 2021 - 2021 Visiting Professor for Global History (University Vienna)
- 2020 - 2022 General Secretary (International Conference of Labour and Social History)
- 2019 - 2019 Visiting Professor for Economic and Social History (University Vienna)
- 2018 - 2022 Lecturer in Global History, Modern South Asia and Development Studies (University Vienna)
- 2014 - 2014 Visiting Scholar (IFK Fellow Abroad) (New York University)
- 2013 - 2017 Research and Teaching Assistant (University Vienna)
- 2012 - 2013 Junior Fellow (International Research Center for Cultural Studies University of Art and Design Linz)
Awards
- Year: 2019 Awards: Michael Mitterauer Award for Social, Cultural and Economic History in Vienna
- Year: 2013 Awards: Theodor Körner Preis
Projects
1 Project found.
Hazards, Vulnerability and Resilience in Colonial India. A Comparative Analysis of Three Famines in Nineteenth-Century Bihar.
Project type: Research project (§ 26 & § 27)
Project management: Bauer Rolf
BOKU organizational units involved: Institute of Social Ecology
funded by: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Project Leader: 19.03.2025 - 28.02.2029
duration: 01.03.2025 - 28.02.2029
Publications
4 Publications found.
Mahatma Gandhis Hind Swaraj: Passiver Widerstand und eine Kritik des Industriekapitalismus
Source: Bauer V, Bauer R. Mahatma Gandhis Hind Swaraj: Passiver Widerstand und eine Kritik des Industriekapitalismus. In: Dreidemy L, Knierzinger J, Mayer D, Pfeffer C , Herausgeber. Stimmen des Antikolonialismus. Eine globalhistorische Spurensammlung 1615–1915. Mandelbaum; 2025. S. 377.
Chapter in collected volumes
external links and characteristics of the publication:Introduction
Source: Bauer R, van Nederveen Meerkerk E. Introduction. In: Bauer R, van Nederveen Meerkerk E , editors. Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century. Brill; 2023. p. 1. doi:https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004529427_002
Chapter in collected volumes
external links and characteristics of the publication:
Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century
Source: Bauer R, van Nederveen Meerkerk E , editors. Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century. 2023.
Editorial
external links and characteristics of the publication:The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India
Source: Bauer, R. The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India [Internet]. Land J, Shiroyama T, Touwen J , editors. Library of Economic History. Brill; 2019. 220 pp. doi:10.1163/9789004385184
Monographs
brill.comKnowledge Transfer to Society
0 Publications found.
Media
0 Media found.
Presentations
0 lecures found.
Supervised Theses
9 Publications found.
Unequal Waves. A Gendered Analysis of Disaster Vulnerability and Recovery in Tsunami-Affected Asian Communities
Quelle: Kaindl, C. Unequal Waves. A Gendered Analysis of Disaster Vulnerability and Recovery in Tsunami-Affected Asian Communities [Internet] [Master / Diploma Thesis]. [Dr. Karl Lueger Building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria]: University Vienna; 2025. Available from: https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC17466877
Master / Diploma Thesis Jahr: 2025
Eigenschaften der Publikation:Managing gay, bisexual and queer identities in Nepal: strategies of visibility, belonging and resistance within family and society
Quelle: Schild, M. Managing gay, bisexual and queer identities in Nepal: strategies of visibility, belonging and resistance within family and society [Internet] [Master / Diploma Thesis]. [Dr. Karl Lueger Building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria]: University Vienna; 2025. Available from: https://permalink.obvsg.at/AC17560757
Master / Diploma Thesis Jahr: 2025
Eigenschaften der Publikation:The Indian Green Revolution : how American expertise contributed to Indian nation-building in the second half of the twentieth century
Quelle: van den, M. The Indian Green Revolution : how American expertise contributed to Indian nation-building in the second half of the twentieth century [Internet] [Master / Diploma Thesis]. [Dr. Karl Lueger Building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria]: University Vienna; 2023. Available from: https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC17012466
Master / Diploma Thesis Jahr: 2023
Eigenschaften der Publikation:Très (ts)chic(k)! - the construction of the modern woman in American tobacco advertising illustrated by the example of Virginia Slims
Quelle: Klimeš, D. Très (ts)chic(k)! - the construction of the modern woman in American tobacco advertising illustrated by the example of Virginia Slims [Internet] [Master / Diploma Thesis]. [Dr. Karl Lueger Building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria]: University Vienna; 2023. Available from: https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC16876631
Master / Diploma Thesis Jahr: 2023
Eigenschaften der Publikation:Migrant labour and social reproduction between the Gulf and India
Quelle: Fenners, M. Migrant labour and social reproduction between the Gulf and India [Internet] [Master / Diploma Thesis]. [Dr. Karl Lueger Building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria]: University Vienna; 2023. Available from: https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC16984157
Master / Diploma Thesis Jahr: 2023
Eigenschaften der Publikation:Natur und Arbeit billiger machen : die Folgen und Ursachen der Ausbreitung von Fichtenbäumen in Österreich aus einer historischen Perspektive
Quelle: Plochberger, L. Natur und Arbeit billiger machen : die Folgen und Ursachen der Ausbreitung von Fichtenbäumen in Österreich aus einer historischen Perspektive [Internet] [Diplomarbeit / Masterarbeit]. [Dr. Karl Lueger Building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria]: Universität Wien; 2023. Verfügbar unter: https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC16748806
Master / Diploma Thesis Jahr: 2023
Eigenschaften der Publikation:Natur und Arbeit billiger machen : die Folgen und Ursachen der Ausbreitung von Fichtenbäumen in Österreich aus einer historischen Perspektive
Quelle: Plochberger, L. Natur und Arbeit billiger machen : die Folgen und Ursachen der Ausbreitung von Fichtenbäumen in Österreich aus einer historischen Perspektive [Internet] [Diplomarbeit / Masterarbeit]. [Dr. Karl Lueger Building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria]: Universität Wien; 2023. Verfügbar unter: https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC16748806
Master / Diploma Thesis Jahr: 2023
Eigenschaften der Publikation:The crisis around the Rohingyas in Myanmar : actors, narratives and history
Quelle: Parihar, A. The crisis around the Rohingyas in Myanmar : actors, narratives and history [Internet] [Master / Diploma Thesis]. [Dr. Karl Lueger Building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria]: University Vienna; 2022. Available from: https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC16471289
Master / Diploma Thesis Jahr: 2022
Eigenschaften der Publikation:The East India Company and the opium trade in the eighteenth und nineteenth century
Quelle: Seidl, H. The East India Company and the opium trade in the eighteenth und nineteenth century [Internet] [Master / Diploma Thesis]. [Dr. Karl Lueger Building, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien, Austria]: University Vienna; 2020. Available from: https://ubdata.univie.ac.at/AC15766227
Master / Diploma Thesis Jahr: 2020
Eigenschaften der Publikation:
Community Services
Functions for scientific journals and panels / societies
Reviewer in (peer-reviewed) scientific journals
- 2024 -
INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW,
Reviewer
- 2021 -
Peripherie: Politik, Oekonomie, Kultur,
Reviewer
- 2024 -
Other Peer-Review Activities
Project reviews (for funding organizations)
- 2022 -
Institute for Advanced Study (Central European University),
Fellowship programs, Gutachter
- 2022 -
Events
- 2022
57th Internationale Tagung der HistorikerInnen der Arbeiter- und anderer sozialer Bewegungen (ITH) Conference 2022
(Conference, workshop), organiser
- 2021
56th Internationale Tagung der HistorikerInnen der Arbeiter- und anderer sozialer Bewegungen (ITH) Conference 2021
(Conference, workshop), organiser
- 2022