Social and economic history of Europe and global transformations since the late 1980s. Founder of RECET. Recipient of the Wittgenstein Prize.
Current project: "Transforming Rights: Entangled Debates about Gender Equality during and after the Cold War".
Migration history, Transnational and Comparative history.
Current project: "The Dynamics of Change and the Logics of Transformation: State, Society, and Economy at Critical Junctures" / "Discrimination of People of Eastern European Origin on the Labour Market:…
General and project administration, budgeting, event management, science communication.
Current project: "Knowledgeable Youth: Science Communication in Times of War".
“To the Northwest! Intra Yugoslav Albanian migration (1953-1989)”
“A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa: A Connected History of the Yugoslav Workforce In Zambia”
"The Transformation of ARBED 1973-2001. A European business and labour history"
"Stories Of/In Transformation. Literary Narratives of Transformation and Inequality in Post-Socialist Poland".
'Women’s Intellectual and Cultural Discourses in Socialist and Transition-Era Bulgaria and North Macedonia'
"Globalising the Yugoslav Revolution in the Postcolonial World: Veterans, Memory and Transnational Networks of Solidarity during the Cold War"
"Transforming Memories: processes of negotiation within Jewish Communities in Berlin"
ERC-funded Project: "The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001 (HERESSEE)"
“A Breach in the System: The ‘Polonia Firms’ 1976-1994”.
"Precarious Privileges: Polish Refugees between Poland, Austria and Canada in the Long Nineteen-Eighties".
"Linking Arms: Central Europe's Weapons Sector, 1954-1994"
"Liberalism – Neoliberalism – Illiberalism: Capitalism after Communism and a New Surge of Collectivist Ideas" / "Economic Collectivism: Old and New. Lessons from the Communist and Post-Communist Experience".
"Discourses on Women and Women’s Rights Through the Lens of State Women’s Organisations in Slovenia, 1970s-1990s"
„Migration Regimes and Post-Socialist Transformation. The Negotiation of German-Polish Labor Migration“
“The Transformation of China’s Shipbuilding Industry since the 1970s: Ownership, Labor, and Emerging Entrepreneurism."
"The Austrian Wanderungsamt 1919-1939. The control of emigration of Austrian workers in the context of international labour markets in the inter-war period"
“A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa: A Connected History of the Yugoslav Workforce in Zambia” // "Enhancing Capacities for Quality and Impactful Research on Transformations, Labor and Migration in Southeast-Europe"
"Strange but Familiar: The Global Microhistory of Contacts between Poland and Vietnam (1955-1989)", Coordinator of the Migration & Mobility Reading Group
"Knocking on the Vatican’s Gates. Refugees, the Holy See, and the Spectre of Communism, 1945-1958”
During the Academic Year 2024/2025 Dr. Peng is on leave at the Harvard Kennedy School.
"Making a New World? China and the end of the European Cold War, 1979-1991".
"Outlaws: A socio-economic history of illegalized logging in Bukovina"
"The Mutual Perception Between Russian Germans and Post-Soviet Jews in the Federal Republic of Germany"
"Transformation in Eastern Germany on the Example of VEB Werk für Fernsehelektronik"
"A Historical Reassessment of Economic Reforms at the Soviet Union’s Western Fringes, 1987–1991".
"Volunteering in Local Communities between Late Socialism and Liberal Capitalism: The History of Volunteer Fire Departments in Germany and East Central Europe, 1980-2000".
"Transforming the State through Social Work in Burgas, Bulgaria"
“The Politics of Gender and Family: Comparative Perspectives on Welfare State Transformation”
’Assignments to Towns of Provincial Importance’: Labour Migration, Empire-Building and the Job Assignment System in the Late Soviet Union.
"State-Socialist Citizenship and its Collapse in Poland: Rewriting Postwar History from Below"
“Future transformed. Scientific Future Studies in Poland under late- and post-socialism”.
"Following Swedish Aid: Translation and Transformation of Sweden’s Gender Equality and Sexual Rights Discourses in the Development Cooperation with Eastern Europe (FoSAid)"
Unobvious Mobility: Migrations from Poland to the 'New' European Union
"Transformations from Below: Shipyards and Labour Relations in the Uljanik (Croatia) and Gdynia (Poland) since the 1980s".
"Cars for the East: The Informal Car Market in Poland, 1980-1990s";
"The Mauthausen Networks: A New Perspective on Post-War Europe"
“Heroines of Labour and Bizneswoman.”
“The Dissident Politics of Rights: Legalism, Human Rights Discourses and the Foundations of Rule of Law in East Central Europe, 1968–2000”, "Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: A Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives"
Europe between Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Reimagining Community since 1989
"Economic Reform Thoughts in Soviet-Eastern European Socialist Countries—A Chinese Perspective"
The Impact of Industrialization on the Life of the Inhabitants of two Districts in Brno, 1784–1867
"Soviet Psychiatry in Domestic Politics and International Networks".
"The Authoritarian Challenge of Politically Biased International Election Observation".
'Workers’ Agency and Social Justice in the Age of Authoritarianism: Austria and Czechoslovakia, 1938–1989'
Assistance in administration, event management, research, and PR
PR & social media coordination, assistance in science communication
Content Creation with a Focus on Music History
Student Project Assistant for the ERC-funded Project: "The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001 (HERESSEE)"
Professor, University of Vienna
Professor, University of Warsaw
Founder and CEO, Bakamo.Social
Professor, Chair of Contemporary History, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Executive Director, Vienna Institute for International Academic Studies (wiiw)
Professor, Institute for Nonprofit Management at WU Vienna
Associate Professor, Director of the Center for Research on Social Memory, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw
"The search for the "good life" in Germany (Osnabrück)".
"The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights in postwar Czechoslovakia"
"Temporarily Displaced Persons from Ukraine in the European Union: Social Adaptation and Labour Market Integration"
"Thinking a New Order: Strategic Thinking in/for the East Central Europe (1989-2022)".
"Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism"
County revolution or revolution in a county? Biographies and Practices of Political Actors in the Warsaw Voivodship, 1944–1956
“Five "Rooms" of modern Ukrainian literature: War memory”
“Return of Refugees and Employment Creation in a Post-War Reconstruction: Lessons for Ukraine from Balkan Experience”.
"Agents of Globalisation. Yugoslav Enterprises between Nonaligned Transnationalism and Socialism"
Organizational Tasks & PR
"Dialogic class formation through cultural consumption: Towards comparative cultural history of postsocialism"
“Impacts of Ukrainian Refugees on the Social and Economic Life of Austria”.
“Recasting the Ideological Composition of Christian Democracy in Postwar Czechoslovakia”
"Tracing Socialist Civil Law. Knowledge of Normativity between German Unification and European Integration"
The Neoliberal Turn in Moldova after the Collapse of the Soviet Union
"Soviet war memorials and global networks".
"Transforming Humanities in Independent Ukraine: A Case of Philosophy"
"Neoliberalism’s Entanglement with Democracy in Post-Socialist Slovakia"
„Photography and Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Literatures“
"Talking Borders, Telling History – Border Perceptions from Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe"
Erasmus+ Trainee
"Decentering Narratives of Post-Socialist Transformation: Memory of Nurses through Narratives of (In)Security"
"Modernization of Sexuality and the Construction of Deviance in Soviet Lithuania (MoSeLit)"
"Transformation of Czechoslovak/Czech railway sector after 1989".
“Ukraine vis-à-vis Russia and the EU: the case of the first year of the war (2014-2015)”
"Learning the market: Czech and Slovak visual media, private enterprise and middle-class imaginations, 1980-2000"
"Socialist Hubs of Decolonization: A Global History of East-Central European International Organizations during the Cold War"
“Formation of the culture of lobbying in Ukraine against the background of the processes of cultural and civilizational modernization of the country”.
“The Politics of Masculinity and Stigmatization of Fighting-age Ukrainian men Who Flee the War”
"Female Emancipation in Doctors’ Hands: OBGYN Nina Holopatiuk and the History of Abortion in Ukraine"
'Everyday Ties and White Imaginaries: How Russian-speaking Migrants Joined the German Far Right.'
"'Nobody wins a nuclear war’: the last Cold War crisis and protest from below, 1979-1984".
"Visual Art Practices and Projects of Wartime Ukraine: From Cruel Reality to Cruel Optimism"
“Russian Invasion and Shia Muslims of Ukraine”
"An urban ethnography of ugliness: Relating past and present in Czech and Slovak cities through "visual smog".
"Trucking Europe: The Triple Transformation of European Freight Companies since the 1980s".
"The Smellscapes of Lublin. An Olfactory Urban History of the 20th Century in East Central Europe".
"Ukrainian Migrants in Poland: Discourse, Perceptions and Implications for Self-Identification"
