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Katharina Scharf

Dr. Katharina Scharf

Rachel Carson - Simone Veil Fellow

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Rachel Carson Center
Leopoldstr. 11a, 4. OG
80802 Munich


Katharina Scharf is a historian at the University of Salzburg, Austria, with research interests in the histories of women, gender, tourism, environment, and regional change as well as the history of National Socialism. She studied History and German Studies in Salzburg. Her master's thesis on women in National Socialist Salzburg was awarded the Erika Weinzierl Prize in 2016. In 2019, she received her doctorate. Her dissertation on the comparative history of tourism in Salzburg (Austria) and Savoy (France) in the Belle Époque will be published with StudienVerlag in 2021. She is a member of the EHCA (Environmental History Cluster Austria). She is currently working on a research project on the role of women and gender in European environmental movements. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1469-2525

RCC Research Project: Women and Gender in German and Austrian Environmental Movements