Incoming Junior Fellows

completed her Master's degree in Advanced Migration Studies at the University of Copenhagen in 2018 and, after working at the Center for Art on Migration Politics (Copenhagen, Denmark) and the Berlin Institute for Population and Development, has been a research associate at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in the DFG project "Reeducation Revisited: Transnational and Comparative Perspectives on the Post-World War II Period in the US, Japan, and Germany" since 2019.

Link to the project Intimate Readings: Literary Negotiations of Affective and Gendered Belongings

Project collaboration: October 2020 to January 2021

Jasmin Doubek studied German Philology as well as History, Social Studies and Political Education at the University of Vienna and wrote her diploma thesis on the construction of femininity in Austrian contemporary novels of the interwar period. Her main research interests are gender studies, literary theory, social history and social criticism.

Link to the project Gender revisited. Negotiations of gender in the age of posthumanism

Project collaboration: March to August 2020

She holds a Master in Urban Geographies - Human Geography at the Humboldt University of Berlin and wrote her thesis on "Prekarität und die symbolische Ökonomie der Raum-Zeit – eine empirische Betrachtung imaginativer Geographien im Berliner Kontext". She also organizes the interdisciplinary student working and reading group projekt//raum.

Link to the project Gender-equitable urban development in smart city contexts

Project collaboration: March to June 2020

completed her BA and MA in Sociology and Contemporary Italian Philology at the University of Zadar. Her MA thesis was on "Gay Men's Coming Out Experience". She is currently a student of a postgraduate doctoral program in Sociology of Local and Regional Development at the University of Zadar with research interests in gender theory, social ecology, sociology of space and qualitative methodology.

Link to the project Gender and Age/s in the Central and Southeast European Context

Project collaboration: April to September 2021

She completed her BA and MA in philosophy (specialization in ethics and aesthetics) at the University of Vienna and is now working on her dissertation project "Kartografie des nackten Lebens. A Phenomenology of the Biopolitical with Giorgio Agamben".

Link to the project Resistance necessary? - Identity and gender struggles in the horizon of right-wing populism and Christian fundamentalism in Europe today

Project collaboration: January to September 2020

After a BA in Philosophy at the University of Istanbul, she completed her MA in Philosophy at the University of Vienna in 2019. Her dissertation project is entitled "Die messianische Sorge Jacques Derridas. Das Politische im Horizont der zeitlichen Aporie".

Link to the project Is resistance necessary? - Identity and gender struggles in the horizon of right-wing populism and Christian fundamentalism in Europe today

Project collaboration: October 2019 to September 2020

He completed his M.A. in Urban and Regional Development at the University of Bremen in 2019, before which he studied for a B.A. in Integrated Social Sciences at the Technical University of Braunschweig. He gained experience abroad at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul and the Université Lumière in Lyon, working as a student assistant at several centers and institutes.

Link to the project Gender Equitable Urban Development in Smart City Contexts

Project collaboration: March to June 2020

Stella Zilian completed her Master's degree in economics at the University of Graz and is currently a PhD student and project collaborator at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her dissertation deals with the empirical analysis of the relationship between technological change and inequality.

Link to the project Digitalization: A curse or blessing for the gender pay gap?

Project collaboration: November 2020 to April 2021

received his Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Zagreb (2013) and is currently a PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Zadar, where he is working on his dissertation entitled "Life Strategies and Survival Strategies of Individuals and Households in Post-transition Croatia". His research interests focus on gender, social strategies, qualitative sociology and relational Bourdieusian methodology. He has worked on projects on social inequalities (SNFS SCOPES), youth, politics and populism (EU FP7), societal values of culture (Horizon 2020) and relational gender identities in a modernization and development context (Croatian Science Foundation).

Link to the project Gender and Age/s in the Central and Southeast European Context

Project collaboration: April to September 2021

is a historian working on gender, society and the First World War. She completed both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Oxford and is now a PhD candidate at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds. Her research aims to understand how violence and trauma were experienced and understood by men and women in Germany and Austria during the First World War and the interwar period. She is particularly interested in the experiences of non-combatants and aid workers and how they can reconcile their own lived experiences with the memory of the war.

Link to the project War Care and Gender Politics in the First World War. Regional and global dimensions

Project collaboration: June to September 2022

completed a Bachelor's degree in Midwifery at FH JOANNEUM Graz and a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Sociology at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. She currently works as a freelance midwife in Frankfurt, as an associate editor for the Zeitschrift für Hebammenwissenschaft and as a lecturer.

Link to the project Dream birth or birth trauma? On the new discomfort of birth

Project collaboration: October 2020 to May 2021

Studied teaching (diploma) with a combination of philosophy/psychology, German as well as art education (University of Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) and is a member of the "Arbeitskreis Kulturanalyse" (aka). She has been working on questions of queer and gender studies, which she explores in interdisciplinary and artistic workshops, performances and contributions, for example on time/space/gender, on queer art of failure and female masculinity or on queer pedagogy.

Link to the project Gender revisited. Negotiations of gender in the age of posthumanism

Project collaboration: March to August 2020

Elisabeth Pedersen holds a MA degree in Sociology from Masaryk University in Brno and a MA degree from Charles University in Prague.

Link to the project Everyday Creativity in (Post)Socialism: Theoretical and Methodological Scoping

Project collaboration: April to July 2022

After completing degrees at the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett is a PhD candidate at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on German politics, political culture and protest.

Link to the project War Welfare and Gender Politics in the First World War. Regional and global dimensions

Project collaboration: September to December 2021

She holds a Master's degree in Environmental Systems Science (specializing in Geography) from the University of Graz and is currently a project assistant at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and has worked at the Graz Schumpeter Centre.

Link to the project Digitalization: A curse or blessing for the gender pay gap?

Project collaboration: November 2020 to March 2021