Incoming Senior Fellows
Incoming Senior Fellows are introduced here.
The literary and cultural scholar is an Associate Professor at the Department of German Studies at the University of Vienna.
Further information about Anna Babka
Project collaboration: March to June 2020
The sociologist works as a Substitute Professor at the Institute of Sociology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.
Further information about Sabine Flick
Project collaboration: October 2020 to January 2021
Aleksandra Knežević is a Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, and a doctoral student in anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the same university and a master's degree in philosophy from Central European University in Budapest and Vienna. In her doctoral research, "An Anthropological Analysis of the Evolutionary Social Science Methods", she examines how evolutionary psychologists approach the integration between evolutionary and anthropological explanations of human social behavior, with a specific focus on gender differences. Her research utilizes ethnography of science as a methodological tool. She is the co-editor of Gender and Violence in the Balkans, published by the TPO Foundation, Sarajevo. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting student at Central European University and a research fellow at the Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna. As a Elisabeth List Fellow, Aleksandra is examining the production of knowledge regarding intersectionality as a concept in recent gender scholarship related to (former) Yugoslav space.
The English literary scholar works at Charles University in Prague with a focus on feminist literary theory, gender in literature and postcolonial and decolonial studies.
The economist, whose research focuses on feminist economics, care economics, income and wealth distribution as well as gender budgeting, is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Heterodox Economics at Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Further information about Katharina Mader
Project collaboration: October 2020 to January 2021
The Senior Lecturer at the University of Zadar, Croatia, deals with questions about the connections between gender and media as well as cultural sociology, empirical methods and cultural studies theories.
Further information about Mirko Petrić
Project collaboration: November/December 2020, June/July 2021
The professor at the University of Zadar, Croatia, researches and teaches in the field of cultural sociology with a focus on media theories and methods.
Further information about Inga Tomić-Koludrović
Project collaboration: November/December 2020, June/July 2021
Der promovierte Kirchenhistoriker ist Mitbegründer und Vorsitzender des Arbeitskreis Gender und Religion (AKGR) der Deutschen Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft (DVRW).
Maria Fritsche ist Geschlechterhistorikerin mit einem Schwerpunkt im Bereich moderne internationale Geschichte, Krieg, Militär und Besatzung, Justiz und Nachkriegsgesellschaft, Kino und Film.
Yvonne Franz forscht und lehrt zur (Stadt-)Geographie an der Universität Wien. Sie ist zudem wissenschaftliche Leiterin des postgradualen Masterprogramms „Kooperative Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung“ am Postgraduate Center sowie lokale Koordinatorin des Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Urban Studies (4CITIES) und Core Member der interdisziplinären Forschungsplattform „The Challenges of Urban Futures“ an der Universität Wien.
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Ihre Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre liegen in den Bereichen Gender Studies, Ethik, LGBTIQ-Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophie, Soziologie.
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Charlotte Fonrobert ist eine hoch renommierte Religionswissenschaftlerin mit einer ausgewiesenen Expertise im Bereich des Judentums, insbesondere talmudischer Literatur und Kultur.
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Mira Sievers ist Juniorprofessorin für Islamische Glaubensgrundlagen, Philosophie und Ethik am Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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Chiara Bonfiglioli is a Lecturer in Gender & Women’s Studies at University College Cork, Ireland, where she also coordinates the one-year interdisciplinary Masters in Women’s Studies and where she has been teaching feminist theories and methods since 2017.
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Martina Heßler ist seit 2019 Professorin für Technikgeschichte an der TU Darmstadt. Sie forscht zu Mensch-Maschine-Verhältnissen, technologischen Fehlern und Technikemotionen.
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Suzanne Moon is an American historian of technology whose research focuses on agriculture and industry in Indonesia and more broadly in Southeast Asia. She is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine at the University of Oklahoma.
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Mike Prentice is an anthropologist by training and conducts ethnographic research into South Korean workplace culture.
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The Professor of Integrative Geography at the European University of Flensburg was an Aigner-Rollet Visiting Professor of Geography and Gender Studies at the University of Graz in 2017.
Further information on Sybille Bauriedl
Project collaboration: March to June 2020
The Professor at the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University, Boston, USA, deals in his academic teaching and research with questions of intersectionality, including masculinities and aging, especially in regard to music.
Further information about Murray Forman
Project collaboration: June/July 2021
Immanuel R. Harisch is a historian with a special interest in labor, gender, education, and economic relations. His dissertation, which received the Walter Markov Price for global history, focused on educational institutions, networks and mobilities of African trade unions and/within the international labor movement during the Cold War. He is currently the managing editor of the open access journal Stichproben – Vienna Journal of African Studies. In addition to an edited volume he co-authored on GDR-Africa relations during the Cold War, he has published journal articles on organized labor in Africa and the international trade union movement, socialisms in Africa, and knowledge production in African universities. He works as a researcher at the University of Vienna on a FWF funded research project "A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa: A Connected History of the Yugoslav Workforce in Zambia". As Senior Fellow for the research project “Women’s and gender history in Southeast Europe in the 20th Century", Dr. Harisch is tasked with exploring engagement between Yugoslavia and other state-socialist countries and postcolonial states in Africa in terms of gender and will undertake oral history, archival and library research in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and in Lusaka, Zambia, in late 2024 for this purpose.
The Associate Professor Emerita of English and American Studies focuses her research on 20th-century American Literature and Culture as well as Literary and Cultural Theory.
Further information on Cheryl Lester
Project collaboration: May to July 2021
The cultural scientist with a focus on affect studies is a Professor at the Department of English and American Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Further information about Heike Paul
Project collaboration: October 2020 to January 2021
The Professor of German Culture and Gender History works in the Department of German at the University of Leeds, England, on gender relations and international relations.
Further information on Ingrid Sharp
Project collaboration: April 2021 to March 2022
The Catholic theologian, specializing in biblical and practical theology, is a private lecturer and research assistant at the Institute for Catholic Theology at the University of Osnabrück.
Further information about Sonja Strube
Project collaboration: October 2019 to May 2020
Helen is Professor of Sociodigital Futures at the University of Bristol. Helen is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in cultural studies, feminist science and technology studies, co-design and material culture.
Sie ist Soziologin und Geschlechterforscherin. Sie ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Forschungskoordinatorin am Zentrum für Geschlechterstudien/Gender Studies der Universität Paderborn. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind feministische Digitalisierungsforschung und Gender Studies im interdisziplinären Dialog und in sich transformierenden Institutionen.
Sie ist promovierte Erwachsenen- und Weiterbildnerin, Soziologin und Geschlechterforscherin mit einem Fachschwerpunkt auf Gender und Diversität.
Sie ist Soziologin und Musikwissenschaftlerin an der FH JOANNEUM sowie der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Graz.
is a social anthropologist, visual ethnographer, and curator whose work lies at the intersection of science and committed public anthropology. With gender as her central analytical lens, she explores power structures and knowledge production across diverse contexts. Her interdisciplinary research encompasses gender and social movements, migration and diaspora, care work, trauma, violence and memory, transcultural media- and filmwork.
Annette Weissenrieder ist Professorin für Neues Testament und Exegese am Institut für Bibelwissenschaften der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
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Anita Wohlmann from the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Her fields of research include metaphors and narratives, gender, age and aging, seriality, life writing, health humanities,
narrative medicine, data & stories.
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Helen Kohlen ist Gesundheits- und Sozialwissenschaftlerin mit einer Expertise zu feministischen Ansätzen der Care-Ethik in Pflege und Medizin, insbesondere im Feld der Geriatrie und Palliative Care.
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Heidi Schweickert forscht im Bereich Digitalgeschichte über Technikemotionen im Kontext betrieblicher Anwendungssoftware und deren emotionalen Konjunkturen im Zeitverlauf.
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Monika Arnez is a social and cultural anthropologist specializing in environmental and urban anthropology, gender relations, and, more recently, material culture. She has carried out extended field research in Indonesia and Malaysia.
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