Institute of Modern History

Ruth Egger

Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

Contact

University of Tuebingen
Department of History
Wilhelmstr. 36
72074 Tübingen
+49 (0) 7071 29-77131

Email: ruth.eggerspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Office hours

After taking contact.

 

 

room: Hegelbau, 2nd floor, room 203, alternatively via zoom

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2023
Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

at the Department of Modern History, University of Tübingen

2022-2023
Curator

Parental leave cover for the Curator of Fashion, Textiles and Jewellery, Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

2020-2022
Assistant Curator

at the Department of Art and Cultural History, Landesmuseum Württemberg (Württemberg State Museum)

2022
Internship

at the Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie, Aubusson

2020
Internship

at the Department of Art and Cultural History, Landesmuseum Württemberg (Württemberg State Museum)

2019
Internships

at the “World Cultures” Department, National Museums Scotland, as well as in the Collections Management Team, Glasgow Museums

2018-2019
Master of Letters (MLitt.)

“Art History: Dress and Textile Histories” at the University of Glasgow. Title of the master thesis: “Mapping Dress and Identity. The Costumed Figures in John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, 1611-1612”

2016-2018
Costume Maker

Salzburger Landestheater (Salzburg State Theatre)

2015
Manager of the Workshop

at “Kids in Fashion”, Vienna

2015
Master’s Examination

for the Craft of Dressmaking, Innung für Mode und Bekleidungstechnik, Vienna

2014-2015
Master School

Costume Design and Making at the Secondary School of Fashion and Creative Design "Herbststrasse", Vienna

2008-2014
Magistra (Mag.)

Diploma programme in Celtic Studies at the University of Vienna. Title of diploma thesis: “Fairies, Witches, and the Devil. The Interface between Elite Demonology and Folk Belief in Early Modern Scottish Witchcraft Trials”

2013
Project Assistant

for the relocation of the museum storage, Wien Museum (Vienna Museum)

2008-2012
Bachelor’s Degree Programme

in History, University of Vienna

Research

Topic of the Dissertation:

The European Gaze. Envisioning and Collecting Global Fashion in Early Modern Europe (working title)

Research interests

  • Early Modern Cultural History

  • Dress and Textile Histories

  • Visual and Material Culture

  • Museums and Collections

  • History of the British Isles

     

Publications

Presentations

  • Egger, Ruth. “From Weave to Print. The Revival of a 14th-Century Motif on an Evening Cape by Maria Monaci Gallenga.” CIETA Congress 2023, “Renaissances and Revivals,” 2-5 October 2023.
  • Egger, Ruth. “Mapping Dress and Identity. The Costumed Figures in John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, 1611-1612.” The Association of Dress Historians, New Research in Dress History Conference, 7-13 June 2021.

Exhibitions

  • unschwäbisch-pompös. 125 Jahre Landesgewerbemuseum
    16.09.2021–12.04.2022 at Haus der Wirtschaft Baden-Württemberg.

  • A Matter of Taste. Exemplary Design around 1900
    18.11.2021–01.05.2022 at Landesmuseum Württemberg (Württemberg State Museum).

  • Google Arts & Culture: A Matter of Taste. Exemplary Design around 1900 https://artsandculture.google.com/story/aAVR45VtadjCXQ

  • Google Arts & Culture: Fashioning Bodies and Gender. A Journey through Time at the Fashion Museum at Ludwigsburg Residential Palace https://artsandculture.google.com/story/MAWxj5UgkkfbUg

Professional Memberships

  • CIETA (Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens), FR

  • The Costume Society, UK

  • The Association of Dress Historians, UK