Brigitte Bailer-Galanda

Bailer-Galanda became an assistant researcher at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance in 1979. In 1994, she was made a lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. There she completed a habilitation in 2003 with the thesis The Origin of Restitution Laws (Die Entstehung der Rückstellungsgesetze), for which she was named an honorary professor of contemporary history. The next year, Bailer-Galanda succeeded Wolfgang Neugebauer [de] as director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance in 2004 and was herself succeeded in 2014 by Gerhard Baumgartner [de].

• 1992: Käthe Leichter Prize for the study of women's history in Austria
• 1996: Willy and Helga Sell-Verlon Award [de] for antifascist journalism in Austria
• 1999: Bruno Kreisky Prize for political works [de] from the Dr. Karl Renner Institute [de]
• 2013: Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (speech by Friedrich Faulhammer [de])
• 2015: Marietta and Friedrich Torberg Medal from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien