Kerstin Susanne Jobst was born in
Hamburg. Between 1982 and 1989 she studied
History,
Psychology,
Literature and
Finno-Ugristics at the
University of Hamburg, with a couple of lengthy secondments at
Vienna. Between 1989 and 1992, supported by a post-graduate stipendium from the Hamburg University Foundation and the
Hamburg Rotary Foundation, she was able to study
Slavistics and undertake further studies in preparations for higher academic qualification at the
universities of Mainz,
Krakow and
Vienna. The dissertation, published in 1996 (and online in 1998), carries the subtitle, "A contribution to the
"Nationalities Question" under the
Habsburg monarchy". Both before and after receiving her doctorate, Jobst was employed, between 1992 and 1995, as a
research assistant, and then as a researcher, at the
Army University (" Helmut-Schmidt-Universität der Bundeswehr") in
Hamburg. Her daughter was born in 2002. The habilitation dissertation earned Jobst a
"Venia Legendi", amounting to an authority to teach Modern and East European History at the
University of Hamburg. Alongside her teaching duties at Hamburg, between 2006 and 2012 Jobst became a frequent presence at the
Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, where she held a guest professorship. The focus of Jobst's research is on the history of
Eastern Central Europe and of Eastern Europe, the
Black Sea and the
Caucasus regions. She takes a particular interest in the
Habsburg monarchy, comparative imperial and colonial research,
religious history and
hagiography,
remembrance culture, the politics of history and the
history of tourism in Eastern Europe. Another speciality is disaster research. She is a member of the Commission for the Southeast Europe - Turkey - Black Sea at the
Austrian Academy of Sciences and Humanities ("Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften"), a member of the Austria-Russia Historians Commission (
" Österreichisch-Russische Historikerkommission") and a member of the Military History Advisory Group at the Academicians Commission of the
Austrian
Defence (and between 2009 and 2018 Sports) Ministry. == Notes ==