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Eva Reder is an Austrian historian. Her main interests are Polish-Jewish relations, research on violence in comparative perspective, anti-Semitism as well as audiovisual sources and their methodology.
She studied history in Vienna and Poznań and received her PhD in history in 2017 with the topic "Pogroms in the shadow of Polish state-building 1918-20 and 1945/46: triggers, motives, practices of violence". The thesis was awarded the Richard G. Plaschka Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2018 and the Marko Feingold Prize of the University of Salzburg (2019) and was published as a monograph by Herder-Verlag in 2019. During her doctoral studies, she was, among others, a scholarship holder at the DHI Warsaw as well as at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on Eastern Central Europe in Marburg. In addition to her studies, she worked as a research project assistant at the Austrian Media Library (Vienna Technical Museum) and as a journalist.