Karl Kaser (historian)

Kaser was born in Pischelsdorf in der Steiermark, Austria in 1954.[1] He studied at the University of Graz, majoring in History and minoring in Slavic Languages and Literature in 1974. He received a PhD from Graz in Southeast European History in 1980.[2] That same year, he began his career as a researcher and Professor of Southeastern Europe at the university. In 1988, he was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor and in 1996 as full Professor for Southeast European History and Anthropology.[2]

Kaser's main area of interest was on the history of family and gender relations as well visual cultures in the Balkans.[2]

Kaser passed away on 11 April 2022 in Piran, Slovenia.[3]

• Kaser, Karl (1992). Hirten, Kämpfer, Stammeshelden: Ursprünge und Gegenwart des balkanischen Patriarchats [Shepherds, Fighters, Tribal Heroes: Origins and Present of the Balkan Patriarchate]. Böhlau Verlag Wien. ISBN 9783205055457.
• Kaser, Karl; Katschnig-Fasch, Elisabeth (2005). Gender and Nation in South Eastern Europe. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 9783825888022.
• Kaser, Karl, ed. (2005). Anthropological yearbook of European cultures. LIT-Verlag. ISBN 9783825888022.
• Kaser, Karl (2008). Patriarchy After Patriarchy: Gender Relations in Turkey and in the Balkans, 1500-2000. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 9783825811198.
• Kaser, Karl (2011). The Balkans and the Near East: Introduction to a Shared History. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 9783643501905.
• Kaser, Karl, ed. (2012). Household and Family in the Balkans: Two Decades of Historical Family Research at University of Graz. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 9783643504067.
• Gutmeyr, Dominik; Kaser, Karl, eds. (2018). Europe and the Black Sea Region: A History of Early Knowledge Exchange (1750-1850). LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 9783643802866.
• Kaser, Karl (2021). Femininities and Masculinities in the Digital Age: Realia and Utopia in the Balkans and South Caucasus. Springer Nature. ISBN 9783030784126.

• Popov, Kristina (2022). "In Memoriam: Prof. Karl Kaser (1954-2022)". Balkanistic Forum (in Bulgarian). 31 (2). South-West University Neofit Rilski.: 330–335.