Local Junior Fellows
All local Junior Fellows are presented here.
Dr. Rachel Claire Dryden is a research associate (project assistant) of the Elisabeth List Fellowship Program "Gender and sexuality in the early writings of Judaism, Christianity and Islam" at the AT Institute in Graz as well as of the project "Education between the Qur'an and the Bible" at Syddansk Universitet in Odense, Denmark. In 2022, she received her doctorate from Cambridge University in the UK with the thesis "Angels in the Qur'ān". Her research interests include Qur'anic narratives, interreligious dialog and the study of the common heritage of the three Abrahamic religions.
Link to the project "Gender and sexuality in the early writings of Judaism, Christianity and Islam"
Nicole Haring has an MA in English and American Studies and a teaching qualification in English and Geography and Economics. She is working on a doctoral thesis on gender images and understandings of femininity and masculinity in the field of education.
Link to the project Gender and age/s in the context of popular culture, especially music
Project collaboration: July 2020 to June 2021
Samuel Hofstadler completed his Bachelor's degree in History at the University of Graz in May 2021. He has been studying for a Master's degree in History since the summer term 2021. As a student assistant, he assists the head of the department with the organization of the department and with study-related topics such as examinations.
In his master's thesis, he deals with the visual staging of physicality, gender and intimacy in photo albums from the 1920s and 30s.
She studied social sciences, communication studies and sociology in Antwerp, Marburg and Frankfurt am Main and focuses on health and medical sociological issues relating to interprofessionalism, health-related self-advocacy and patient orientation, gender and sexuality. She also works as a freelance trainer in political education and is working on her doctoral project in the field of qualitative health research.
Link to the project Dream birth or birth trauma? On the new discomfort of birth
Project collaboration: September 2020 to August 2021
She holds an MA in "Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation", was the initiator and project manager of the Open City Forum in Graz and published her thesis "The Political Necessity of Transpersonal Work. Deep Democracy's Potential to Transform Polarized Conflicts" (Springer Verlag).
Link to the project Gender Equitable Urban Development in Smart City Contexts
Project collaboration: March 2020 to February 2021
The South Slavic literature and cultural studies scholar is a (founding) member of the reading group "Affect - Gender - Communication" and is in the final stages of her dissertation "Intimacy narratives as literary counter-publics. An analysis of character constellations in selected works of Bosnian-Herzegovinian prose after 2000".
Link to the project Intimate Readings: Literary Negotiations of Affective and Gendered Belongings
Project collaboration: April 2020 to January 2021
Viktoria Wind completed her teacher training in German, history, social studies and political education in 2020. She is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of History at the University of Graz. Her research focuses on the field of a new military history practiced as gender history. The constructions of gender concepts in military contexts during the First World War and the interwar period are a particular focus.
Project collaboration: January 2021 to January 2023
René Corvaia-Koch ist studierter bildender Künstler und spezialisierte sich nach seinem Masterstudium der Jüdisch-Christlichen Beziehungen auf die Geschichte der jüdischen Kunst und des Antijudaismus’ in der christlichen Kunst. In seiner Dissertation zur Etablierung und Verwendung der Fotografie im aschkenasischen Judentum (1870er-1910er) befasst er sich mit der Ästhetisierung männlich-jüdischer Gelehrsamkeit. Seine Expertisen in der intermedialen Forschung und der Ausstellungskuration bringt er ins Projekt „Zwischen Bild und Text. Intermediale Geschlechtskonstruktionen und religiöse Geschlechtsnormierungen in der Frühen Neuzeit“ ein.
She has a BA in German Studies and an MA in Religious Studies and also works at the Institute for Religious Studies in the supervision of extra-occupational studies at the Faculty of Catholic Theology.
Project collaboration: October 2019 to September 2020
Sarah Nabjinsky has a degree in musicology and is working on her dissertation in the field of musicological gender research with a focus on feminist theories, queer studies, pop music/pop culture research and media theories.
Link to the project Gender and Age/s in the Central and Southeast European Context
Project collaboration December 2020 to December 2021
She completed her Master's degree in German Studies in 2019 and is currently still working on her Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies.
Link to the project Gender revisited. Negotiations of gender in the age of posthumanism
Project collaboration: October 2019 to September 2020
Sophie holds an MA in North American Studies, is a (founding) member of the reading group "Affect - Gender - Communication" and is investigating in her dissertation project how the affective world of experience of trans characters is expressed in contemporary North American science fiction short stories by trans authors and to what extent these texts can serve as a surface of identification for trans readers.
Link to the project Intimate Readings: Literary Negotiations of Affective and Gendered Belongings
Project collaboration: March 2020 to January 2021
Luise Wimmler completed her Master's degree in Economic Policies in the Age of Globalization at Kingston University London and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord in 2019. Her dissertation project involves a systematic investigation of the development of women's pay in Austria in the context of different accumulation regimes. She is a lecturer in economics and was, among other things, chairwoman of the Society for Plural Economics Graz.
Link to the project Digitalization: A curse or blessing for the gender pay gap?
Project collaboration: October 2020 to September 2021
Ren holds a Master of Research in Creative Practice from Glasgow School of Art and a Bachelors in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her multi-disciplinary creative practice focuses on feminism, participation, community and gender based violence, most recently through a community project about feminicide: The Resistance Quilt Project. Her PhD research, due to start Winter Semester 2025/2026 will explore the role of creative participatory methods in disrupting current regimes of anticipation around both gender based violence and ageing and datafied futures.
Er ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Psychologischen Institut der Karl-Franzens-Universität und promoviert im Themenbereich der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion, den er seit seinem Masterabschluss in Psychologie untersucht. Der Schwerpunkt seiner Forschungstätigkeit fokussiert sich darauf, wie sich verschiedene Faktoren in der Zusammenarbeit mit künstlichen Agenten auf den Menschen auswirken. Ein Hauptaugenmerk liegt dabei auf Vertrauen in Roboter und künstliche Intelligenz. Durch seine Forschungsarbeiten in unterschiedlichen anwendungsbezogenen Forschungsprojekten der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion hat er mehrfach praktische Erfahrungen im Zusammenhang mit der arbeitnehmer:innenzentrierten Einführung von Robotern und KI gesammelt.
Sabrina Stranzl studierte Europäische Ethnologie am Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz. In ihrem ethnographisch-kulturanalytischen Dissertationsprojekt beschäftigt sie sich mit Sex_Arbeit als Care_Arbeit?! Ethnographische und Kulturanalytische Perspektiven auf Sexarbeit im Care_Arbeitskontext von Sexualität, Intimität und Emotionalität [Arbeitstitel].