Institute for the
Study of Contemporary Antisemitism

Marlene Gallner is a 2011-2019 student of Political Science, Philosophy, History, Jewish Studies and Austrian Studies at the University of Vienna and the University of Maryland (USA). Fom 2012 to 2015, she was the program coordinator and leader of educational programs in Germany and Israel with Action Reconciliation Service for Peace focusing on coming to terms with the past. In 2013, she was an ssociate at the Moshe Kantor Database on Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University (Israel). Since 2016, she was a guide for American-Jewish students and young professionals in Germany with Germany Close Up - American Jews meet Modern Germany in cooperation with Centrum Judaicum Berlin. Marlene lectures and publishes on antisemitism, the history and impact of Nazism and the Shoah, as well as on political theory and intellectual history. From September 2019 until August 2024 she was the project manager for the ERC research project "Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals" at the Institute of Culture Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.