Christopher Treiblmayr is a lecturer at the Department of History and the Master’s Programme in Gender Studies at the University of Vienna and a member of research staff (project director) at QWIEN – Center for Queer History. He studied in Vienna, Salzburg, Berlin, London, and at UC Berkeley and holds three Master’s degrees as well as a Doctorate in History from the University of Vienna. Further academic teaching experience at the Universities of Salzburg and Klagenfurt, the CEU Vienna and the University Colleges of Teacher Education Vienna and Lower Austria. Christopher’s fields of research and teaching include inter- and transdisciplinary Gender and Queer Studies, contemporary history, history of Human Rights and civil society, gender and film, Orientalism as well as didactics of history.