{"id":242,"date":"2026-02-09T13:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T12:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pionierinnengalerie-graz.atpioneers\/karin-maria-schmidlechner\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:33:37","slug":"karin-maria-schmidlechner","status":"publish","type":"pioneer","link":"https:\/\/www.pionierinnengalerie-graz.at\/en\/pioneers\/karin-maria-schmidlechner\/","title":{"rendered":"Karin Maria Schmidlechner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-24-font-size\"><strong>Initiator of Styria\u00b4s Women History<\/strong><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-20-font-size\">Born in Graz in 1954, the historian, who had already become a committed feminist during her studies (from 1972) of history, German language and literature, and philosophy at the University of Graz, became a committed feminist. She completed her studies sub auspiciis with a dissertation on \u201cStyrian Industrial Workers from 1875 to 1890\u201d and worked as a research assistant at the Styrian Chamber of Labour from 1980 to 1984. Employed since 1984 as a university assistant in the Contemporary History Department of the Institute of History, her interest in women\u2019s history, which had developed since 1980, manifested itself both in her academic work and in her lectures, through which she was able to inspire many students with an enthusiasm for women\u2019s history. With her paper \u201cWomen\u2018s Lives in Men\u2018s Worlds. A Contribution to the History of Styrian Women in the Post-war Period (1945\u20131951)\u201d in 1995, she was only the third woman in Austria to qualify as a professor of contemporary history and the first person to address a topic related to women\u2019s history in a postdoctoral thesis.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-20-font-size\">Since 1995, as a professor of contemporary history in Graz and in the United States, she has intensified her research on women\u2019s and gender issues, held countless courses on the subject, and supervised numerous theses and dissertations on related topics. To promote young academics, she initiated the publication series Grazer Gender Studies (Gender Studies in Graz) in 1994. Through her commitment, she not only played a key role in establishing gender studies at the Institute of History and \u2013 in collaboration with other women academics \u2013 subsequently also at the University of Graz but also contributed to realising the vision of a gender-equal society through her activities outside the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initiator of Styria\u00b4s Women History Born in Graz in 1954, the historian, who had already become a committed feminist during her studies (from 1972) of history, German language and literature, and philosophy at the University of Graz, became a committed feminist. She completed her studies sub auspiciis with a dissertation on \u201cStyrian Industrial Workers from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":446,"template":"","class_list":["post-242","pioneer","type-pioneer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pionierinnengalerie-graz.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pioneer\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pionierinnengalerie-graz.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pioneer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pionierinnengalerie-graz.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pioneer"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pionierinnengalerie-graz.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pionierinnengalerie-graz.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}