Management Committee
The WORCK Management Committee (MC) consists of up to two national delegates and three substitutes per participating COST Country, as well as of MC Observers from Near Neighbour Countries (NNC) or International Partner Countries (IPC).
If the country you are employed in is a COST Member Country and has not yet joined the COST Action WORCK and if you would like to participate in WORCK activities, please send an e-mail to worck@worck.eu and get in contact with the national COST Coordinator of your country.
If you would like to actively contribute to the organization of WORCK activities and your COST Member Country has less than five persons nominated for the Management Committee, please send an e-mail to the Action Chair and Vice-Chair (worck@worck.eu) and get in contact with the other WORCK representatives of your country.
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Nevila Çinaj Aleksander Moisiu University Geographical distribution of labour, labour in tourism, inequality WG 2 |
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Dorjana Klosi University of Vlora “Ismail Qemali” Linguistics, communication studies, gender issues WG 2 – WG 4 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Ledina Merkaj University of Vlora “Ismail Qemali” Intellectual history and terminology of Post socialist societies WG 1 |
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Anamarija Batista Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Contemporary art, theory of political economy, architecture theory Public Outreach – WG 2 |
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Ekaterini Mitsiou Austrian Academy of Sciences Middle Ages, (voluntary and coerced) mobility, networks WG 3 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Corinna Peres University of Vienna Slavery, Mediterranean history, medieval history WG 1 – Digital Infrastructure Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Susan Zimmermann Central European University Women’s labour activism, history of international gender politics, labour and global inequality WG 4 – WG 3 |
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Thomas Wallnig University of Vienna Digital Humanities, early modern Europe Digital Infrastructure – WG 1 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Thijs Lambrecht Ghent University Rural history, wage labour, poor relief, labour legislation, late medieval and early modern period WG 2 – WG 3 |
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Goran Latinovic University of Banja Luka Political, social, economic and cultural history of Yugoslavia WG 4 – WG 3 |
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Nikola Ožegović University of Banja Luka World War II in Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia WG 4 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Ana Luleva Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Care work, domestic work, gender issues of wage labor WG 4 |
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Kristina Popova South-West University Neofit Rilski History of childhood and youth, oral history, gender studies WG 2 – WG 1 |
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Milena Angelova South-West University Neofit Rilski 20th century, Eastern Europe and Transcaucasia, domestic work, cultural memory, health policy and social policies, minority studiese WG 2 – WG 4 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Mirta Bijuković Maršić Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Cultural memory, gender studies, literature, industry, city, mapping WG 4 – WG 2 |
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Branimir Brgles Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics Social and economic history, late mediaeval history, early modern history, onomastics WG 1 – WG 2 |
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Rudolf Kucera Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences Modern history, labour history, war history WG 2 |
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Jakub Stofaník Akademie věd České republiky Labour camps, forced labour, working-class sociability, working-class religiosity WG 2 |
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Johan Heinsen Aalborg University Convict labour, history of prisons, desertion, prison break, colonialism WG 1 – WG 2 – WG 3 |
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Preben Kaarsholm Roskilde University Western Indian ocean, transmutations of servitude, transnational networks, regimes of control, aspirational strategies WG 2 – WG 1 |
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Aigi Rahi-Tamm University of Tartu Forced migration, history of wars, meaning of work, Soviet system WG 3 – WG 2 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Marten Seppel University of Tartu Eastern European serfdom (in the Baltic Sea region and in Livonia in particular); Gutsherrschaft; Begriffsgeschichte WG 1 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Hesi Siimets-Gross University of Tartu Serfdom in the baltic region, colonate in the Roman law, forced labour in the 1930s WG 1 – WG 4 |
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Peeter Tammisto University of Tartu Early modern European history, cultural history, social discipline, church discipline, confessionalisation WG 3 – WG 2 |
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Sami Suodenjoki Tampere University Labour history, socialism, rural labour, history of experiences WG 2 |
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Ella Viitaniemi Tampere University Early modern, short-term workers, rural society WG 2 – WG 3 |
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Claude Chevaleyre CNRS Institut d’Asie Orientale (IAO), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon History of China, slavery history, global labour history WG 1 – WG 3 |
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Hayri Gökşin Özkoray Aix-Marseille Université Ottoman empire, labour history, slavery, contracts, coercion, agriculture, artisans, dependency WG 1 – WG 2 |
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Nicolas Perreaux Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Middle ages, historical semantics, digital methods Digital Infrastructure – WG 1 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Alessandro Stanziani EHESS and CNRS Coercion, global history, colonialism WG 2 – WG 3 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Klaus Weber European University Viadrina Labour regimes, welfare regimes, migration, proto-industries in Central Europe, early globalization WG 1 – WG 2 |
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Christian De Vito University of Bonn Convict labour, punishment, global history, Spanish empire WG 2 – Think Tank |
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Rebekka von Mallinckrodt University of Bremen Early modern history, slavery and human trafficking, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation WG 1 – WG 4 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Silke Schwandt Bielefeld University Medieval history, digital humanities Digital Infrastructure – WG 1 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Clara Almagro Vidal Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Medieval European History, Military Orders, Inter-religious relations WG 1 – WG 4 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Leda Papastefanaki University of Ioannina Global labour history, gender, mining, homework, Mediterranean, 19th-20th century WG 2 – WG 4 |
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Eszter Bartha Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest Work and gender under state socialism WG 4 |
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Gábor Egry Institute of Political History Wartime economy, ethnicity, displacment and labour WG 3 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Tibor Valuch Hungarian Academy of Sciences Labour history, East-Central Europe, Hungary, history of everday life, life story of workers WG 3 – WG 2 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Marsha Siefert Central European University Central and Eastern Europe, labour and culture industries, communication infrastructure WG 4 |
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Vilhelm Vilhelmsson University of Iceland‘s Institute of Research Centres Compulsory service, illegality, vagrancy, Scandinavia, 18th and 19th centuries WG 3 – WG 2 |
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Niall Ó Súilleabháin Trinity College Dublin Medieval History, Slavery and Unfreedom, Social Hierarchies WG 1 – WG 3 |
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Andrea Caracausi Università di Padova Work and capitalism, economy and society WG 2 – WG 3 |
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Giulio Ongaro Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Early modern Italy, military labour, rural labour WG 2 – WG 1 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Raffaella Sarti Università di Urbino Carlo Bo Early modern history, gender, Mediterranean slavery, domestic work, care work, dependancy WG 1 |
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Julia Harnoncourt University of Luxembourg Household & labour, theory of unfree labour, labour relations in production chains, racism WG 3 – WG 4 |
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William Zammit University of Malta History of early modern communication, slavery and forced labour, early modern Mediterranean history WG 1 – WG 2 |
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Igor Casu State University of Moldova Communism, repression, mobilisation WG 2 – WG 3
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Dumitru Lisnic University College Cork Communism, repression, religion WG 3 – WG 4 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Lidia Prisac Ministry of Education, Culture and Research of the Republic of Moldova; Academy of Sciences History of minorities, Armenian refugees, Eastern Europe WG 3 – WG 4 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Marius Tărîţă Institute of History Authoritarianism, peasants, forced labour WG 3 – Public Outreach |
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Goran Ćeranić University of Montenegro Precariat, social stratification, value orientations WG 2 |
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Nataša Krivokapić University of Montenegro Leisure time and work, social inequality, democracy WG 2 |
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Predrag Živković University of Montenegro Neoliberalism, Post-democracy, Thanatopolitics WG 2 |
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Damian Pargas Leiden University Slavery, forced migration, desertion WG 3 |
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Matthias van Rossum International Institute of Social History Global labour history, slavery in South and Southeast Asia, early modern Dutch empire WG 3 |
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Filipa Ribeiro da Silva International Institute of Social History Atlantic and East Africa Slave trade, African slavery, Coerced Labour 19th-20th century WG 1 – WG 2 – WG 3 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Biljana Ristovska-Josifovska Institute of National History Cultural history, migration, memory WG 3 – WG 1 |
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Dimitar Nikoloski University “St. Kliment Ohridski”-Bitola Unemployment, Labour Market Segmentation, Adjustment Mechanisms WG 4 |
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Heidi Enehaug Oslo Metropolitan University Workplace conflicts, work organization and control, whistle blowing, organizational learning WG 2 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Hanne Østhus Norsk Folkemuseum Domestic service, slavery in Europe, early modern period, Scandinavia, gender and intersectionality WG 4 |
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Piotr Guzowski University of Bialystok Serfdom, corveé, mobility restriction WG 2
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Natalia Jarska Institute of History Gender, labour, 20th century, Poland WG 4 |
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Radoslaw Poniat University of Bialystok Historical demography, social mobility, wealth inequality WG 3 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Gonçalo Silva Universidade Nova de Lisboa Urban history, maritime history, environmental history, medieval Portugal Think Tank – WG 1 |
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Viorel Achim Nicolae Iorga Institute of History Forced labour, slavery, history of minorities, Southeast Europe WG 2 – Think Tank |
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Alexandru-Murad Mironov University of Bucharest Labour history, social history, history of communism, housing in socialism WG 4 – Digital Infrastructure |
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Miloš Ivanović Istorijski institut Beograd Medieval nobility, peasant economies, feudalism and lordship, legal history WG 2 – WG 3 |
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Nataša Milićević Institute for Recent History of Serbia Social stratification, 20th Century, Serbia/Yugoslavia, domestic servants, labour history, everyday life WG 4 – WG 3 |
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Ljubinka Skodrić Institute for Contemporary History Gender history, history of education, social history of the Balkans WG 3 – WG 4 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Biljana Stojic Institute of History International relations, 19th and 20th century, Serbia, Yugoslavia, Austria-Hungary, Balkans, social history, diplomacy WG 3 – Public Outreach Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Vasil Gluchman University of Prešov Philosophy of work, work ethics, history of work ethics WG 4 |
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Daniel Škobla Slovak Academy of Sciences Ethnicity, labour, inequalities WG 4 – WG 3 |
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Lev Centrih University of Primorska, Koper; and Institute for Civilization and Culture, Ljubljana Labour history, rural sociology, social movements WG 1 |
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Gita Zadnikar University of Ljubljana Sociology of media, sociology of culture, social movement WG 1 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Isidora Grubački Central European University, (Institute of Contemporary History Ljubljana Feminist labour history, labour history in rural context, relationship between education and coercion WG 4 |
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Juan Carlos García Funes Sorbonne Université Convict labour, concentration camps and forced labour, Franco’s dictatorship and Spanish Civil War WG 2 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Fernando Mendiola Universidad Pública de Navarra Convict labour, concentration camps and forced labour, Franco’s dictatorship and Spanish Civil War WG 2 – Think Tank |
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José A. Piqueras Universitat Jaume I (Castellón) Atlantic slavery, forced labor, second slavery WG 2 |
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Maria Ågren Uppsala University Work, gender, digital methods WG 1 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Erik Lindberg Uppsala University Compulsory service, labour law, contract theory WG 4 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Fia Sundevall Stockholm University Military labour, gender divisions of labour, disenfranchisement, late modern Scandinavia Public Outreach – WG 4 |
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Sofie Tornhill Linnaeus University Intersectionality, precariousness and labour market regulations WG 4 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Carolina Uppenberg Lund University Rural labour, labour laws, gender WG 2 – WG 4 |
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Peter-Paul Bänziger University of Basel Narcotics trade, work and consumption WG 3 – Think Tank |
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Tobias Hodel University of Zurich Digital history, medieval history, historical semantics Digital Infrastructure – WG 1 |
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Matthias Ruoss Columbia University (NYC) and University of Bern History of voluntary work WG 4 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Serena Tolino University of Bern Islamic history, Islamic law, gender and sexuality WG 4 – WG 1 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Ayşegül Akdemir Kadir Has University Gender, emotional labour, migration WG 4 – WG 1 |
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Akın Sefer Koç University Ottoman Empire, Labor History, Migration/Mobility WG 2 – WG 3
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Müge Telci Özbek Işık University Gender, Labour, Mobilty, Late Ottoman WG 3 – WG 4 Former MC Member, 2020-2021 |
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Michelle Greenfield-Liebst University of Edinburgh Slavery, post-slavery, abolition, Christian missions, NGOs, global philanthropy WG 1 – WG 3 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Benedetta Rossi University College London Slavery, labour, migration, mobility, gender, critical development studies, Africa, Niger, Hausa WG 1 – WG 3 |
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Judith Spicksley University of Hull History of slavery, history of women in early modern Europe, early modern British history WG 1 – WG 4 Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |
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Cornelia Wunsch SOAS University of London Non-priestly tempel personnel, manumitted slaves, Neo-Babylonian period WG 4 |
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Sarah Hackett Bath Spa University Ethnicity, race, migration history, migrant labour, ethnic and religious minorities WG 4 – Think Tank Former MC Member, 2019-2021 |