In February 2025, Corinne Geering started the Tenure-Track Position “Transformative Change in a Social Science and Humanities Perspective” at the Department of Economic, Social, and Environmental History and the Linz Institute for Transformative Change (LIFT_C). Her research focuses on transformation and transition studies, comparative and transregional history, regional and urban development, the history of international organisations, heritage, and material culture. Her habilitation project examines the use of crafts for regional development and her further projects deal with socio-economic and social-ecological transformation in rural and structurally weak regions, especially in the context of (de-)industrialisation and energy transition.

Corinne Geering completed a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy in Zurich, Bern, and Prague, and a Master’s degree in World Arts and Slavic Studies in Bern and Fribourg. In 2018, she was awarded her PhD in Eastern European History from the University of Giessen, where she was a doctoral fellow at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC). She received several prizes for her research, including the dissertation prize of the Working Group on International History of the German Association of Historians (VHD) and the Collegium Carolinum Essay Prize.

Before joining JKU, she worked at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig from May 2018 to January 2025. At GWZO, she led the interdisciplinary junior research group “Contrasting East Central Europe” and taught at the University of Leipzig and Humboldt University of Berlin. Furthermore, since 2021, she has held leading positions in collaborative research projects: as head of the historical subproject in “CitiesBuildingCulture” (in collaboration with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT and RWTH Aachen) and until January 2025 as lab speaker in the Leibniz Research Alliance “Value of the Past,” of which she is still an associated member.