Hester Margreiter (she/her) studied History, Sociology, and Management & Economics in Innsbruck, Vienna, Caracas, and New Orleans. She started her PhD with a Nick Mueller Fellowship at the University of New Orleans and then continued at the University of Salzburg, where she serves as research assistant at the Department of History. Currently, Hester focuses on Belle Époque tourism and regional history as well as human-animal relations in Alpine regions from a sociological perspective.