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Visiting Fellowship 2025/26

Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur, PhD

PostDoc Researcher
University of Graz, Austria

Visiting Fellowship 2025/26  (June 1, 2026 – July 1, 2026)

Dominik Gutmeyr-Schnur is a postdoctoral researcher at the section for Southeast European History and Anthropology at the University of Graz. His forthcoming book on networks of photographic practices in the transimperial Caucasus is the result of an FWF-Erwin-Schrödinger-Fellow at Uni Graz (2023–25) and University of California, Los Angeles (2021–23). He has previously managed two major Horizon2020 research projects on memory cultures and knowledge exchange in the wider Black Sea Region. His research interests encompass global and entangled histories with a particular emphasis on cultural representations and their visualization in a broadly construed (South-)Eastern Europe.

Statement of interest

As an INZ fellow, I will be working on a project on entangled histories of non-alignment between Yugoslavia and Cambodia that aims to conduct the first systematic investigation of the relations between the two countries and its manifestation in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) toward a decentered history of the Cold War. It is thereby situated within a wider research context that seeks to explore the historical relationship between the Socialist countries of (South-)Eastern Europe on the one hand and the countries of the Global South, often members of the NAM, on the other, and ultimately write global histories that are not centered on the West. By my project, I intend to show how entangled Yugoslav-Cambodian histories can bring together questions from political, social, economic, and cultural history, write histories of education and labor, address issues about anticolonial liberation movements and postcolonial feminism, and integrate themes of diplomacy, tourism, and representation into studies of visual culture.

Selected publications

  • Gutmeyr-Schnur, Dominik (2026): Camera Caucasica. Networks of Photographic Practices in the Transimperial Caucasus. Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press.
  • Gutmeyr-Schnur, Dominik (2024): „Education and Sciences in the Black Sea Region (18th–21st Centuries).“ In: Kerstin S. Jobst, Stefan Troebst and Stefan Rohdewald (ed.): Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 515–527.
  • Gutmeyr-Schnur, Dominik (2023): „Visually Integrating the Other Within. Imperial Photography and the Image of the Caucasus (1867–1915).“ In: Kati Parppei and Bulat Rakhimzyanov (ed.): Images of Otherness in Russia, 1380–1917: At the Crossroads of History and Politics. Boston: Academic Studies Press, pp. 225–249.
  • Gutmeyr, Dominik; Kaser, Karl (ed.) (2018): Europe and the Black Sea Region. A History of Early Knowledge Exchange (1750–1850). Zurich: LIT.
  • Gutmeyr, Dominik (2017): Borderlands Orientalism or How the Savage Lost his Nobility. The Russian Perception of the Caucasus between 1817 and 1878. Vienna: LIT.
E-mail:
dominik.gutmeyr@uni-graz.at