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Börries Kuzmany (born 1977) is an Austrian historian and slavicist. He teaches at the University of Vienna.

Academic biography
Kuzmany studied history and Russian at the University of Vienna and the Paris-Sorbonne University. During his studies, he also spent a year at the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center in Moscow. He graduated in 2003 with a thesis on Soviet Jewish history based on Yiddish periodicals. In 2009, he earned his PhD in a double degree (Cotutelle) from the universities of Vienna and Paris-Sorbonne with a dissertation on the Galician border town Brody. This urban biography innovatively combined economic and social history with cultural studies approaches. This work was awarded five prizes and was translated into English and Ukrainian.

In his post-doc years, he was employed in a doctoral programme on the Habsburg province of Galicia, spent a year at the Central European University in Budapest, and worked at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. After winning an ERC Starting Grant in 2017, he moved to a tenure track position at the Department for East European History at the University of Vienna, where he built up an international research team. In 2022 he was a visiting fellow at the European University Institute.

Research focus
Kuzmany’s field of study is the history of Europe between the late 18th and the 20th century. He focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, in particular the Habsburg Empire, Poland, Ukraine and the Soviet Union. He is interested in the history of nationalism, cultural diversity, borders, and languages, as well as in urban and Jewish history. His ERC project on non-territorial autonomy tackled the intellectual and political history of this group rights’ approach to accommodate national diversity in multi-ethnic states. In collaboration with the COST action European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network he co-edited the world’s first textbook on non-territorial autonomy.

Awards

 * 2009 Fritz T. Epstein Prize of the German East European Studies Association for a thesis in East European history
 * 2009 Michael Mitterauer Prize for a thesis in economic history
 * 2009 Otto Borst Prize for a thesis in urban history
 * 2009 Doc.Award of the University of Vienna for an outstanding thesis
 * 2012 Richard G. Plaschka Prize for extraordinary merits in the field of East European history
 * 2017 Prize of the City of Vienna for extraordinary merits in the field of humanities

Importatnt publications

 * Brody. A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century. Brill, Leiden/Boston 2017, ISBN 978-90-04-28801-0.
 * Also available in German, ISBN 978-3-205-21197-6, and Ukrainian, ISBN 978-966-8853-94-4.
 * Non-Territorial Autonomy. An Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2023). Edited together with Marina Andeva, Balázs Dobos, Ljubica Djordjević and Tove Malloy.
 * Nationalities Papers, 50/5 (2022), Accommodating National Diversity within States: Territorial and non-territorial approaches since the late 19th century. Special issue edited together with Matthias Battis and Oskar Mulej.