Local Junior Fellows

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.

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

Project collaboration: January 2021 to January 2023

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.

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

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

Si 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