Curriculum Vitae
Acadamic Education
2017 | Habilitation, conferral of the Venia docendi in Sociology and appointment as private lecturer, University of Viena Cumulative habilitation thesis: Intersectionality of Ideologies: Nationalism, Antisemitism and Identity Constructions in Times of Social, Political and Economic Crises (Intersektionalität von Ideologien: Nationalismus, Antisemitismus und Identitätskonstruktionen in Zeiten sozialer, politischer und wirtschaftlicher Krisen) |
2008 | PhD, Dissertation: "The Double Others" - A Sociological Reconstruction of the Entanglement of Antisemitism and Antifeminism (»Die doppelt Anderen« – Eine soziologische Rekonstruktion der Verschränkung von Antisemitismus und Antifeminismus) |
2000 | Degree in Sociology and History, University of Vienna Diploma thesis: Femininity in the "Dialectic of Enlightenment" - A Critique of the Male View of Women (Weiblichkeit in der »Dialektik der Aufklärung« – Eine Kritik des männlichen Blicks auf die Frau) |
2002 | Degree in Romance Studies (French) and English/American Studies, University of Vienna Diploma thesis: On the concept of passage with Walter Benjamin. A feminist approach (Zum Begriff der Passage bei Walter Benjamin. Eine feministische Annäherung) |
Professional Activities
Since 10/19 | Chair of Sociology, University of Passau |
3/19-9/19 | Visiting professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna |
4/18-3/19 | Visiting Professor for Critical Society Theory, Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt |
10/17-3/18 | Lectureship at the European Forum of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
3/17-9/17 | Assistant lecturer at the University of Innsbruck |
3/17-5/17 | Visiting Fellow, Elizabeth and Tony Comper Interdisciplinary Center for The Study of Antisemitism and Racism, Haifa University |
4/16-9/16 | Interdisciplinary Visiting Professorship for Critical Social Theory at the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at the Justus-Liebig-University Gießen |
5/14-10/14 | Research Assistant, Institute for Sociology, University of Vienna |
2/14-4/14 | Visiting Researcher, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington DC |
5/13-10/14 | Erwin Schrödinger Excellence Grant (FWF), Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK |
1/12-1/13 | Research assistant at the Commission Wilhelminenberg, Vienna |
7/09-6/11 | Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development (EU-FP7) at the Nationalism Studies Program of the Central European University, Budapest |
3/09-2/19 | Lectureship at the University of Vienna |
2/02-4/13 | Research assistant at the Institute for Conflict Research in Vienna |
2017 | Research Scholarship of the Comper Interdisciplinary Center for The Study of Antisemitism and Racism, Haifa University (2 months) |
2014 | Teaching Award for the STEOP-Gruppe, University of Vienna |
2013 | Erwin Schrödinger-Excellence Grant with Return Phase (Austrian Science Fund, 18 months) |
2009 | Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development (EU FP7, 24 months) |
2009 | Dissertation Recognition Prize of the Dr. Maria Schaumayer Foundation |
2005 | Minerva Scholarship, Beer Sheva University, Israel (3 weeks) |
2002 | Scholarship of the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the University of Vienna |
1999 | Performance Scholarship of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna |
1998, 1999 | Performance scholarships of the Academic Senate of the University of Vienna |
1997, 1998 | Performance scholarships of the Karl Seitz Foundation, Vienna |
International Journal for Conflict and Violence, Critical Sociology, Journal for Political Ideologies, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Dissonancia: Critical Theory Journal
Since 2016 | Chair des Research Network 31: Ethnic Relations, Racism, and Antisemitism, European Sociological Association |
Since 2016 | Scientific Advisory Board of Antisemitism Studies |
2018-2019 | Member of the Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association, Sub-Committees Finance and Research Networks |
2011-2016 | Board-Member of the Research Network 31: Ethnic Relations, Racism, and Antisemitism, European Sociological Association |
2004-2013 | Editor of the Austrian Journal of Political Science (peer reviewed, SSCI) |
2019 | Internationale Konferenz „Kritische Theorie und Feminismus“ im Rahmen der Gastprofessur an der Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 31.1.-2.2.2019 |
2018 | Mid-term Conference des RN31, European Sociological Association, „Global Perspectives on racism, antisemitism, and nationalism“, University of Ferrara, 5.-6. September 2018 |
2018 | Co-field-chair für Political Studies and Social Sciences im Programmkommittee der Internationalen Konferenz “An End to Anti-Semitism”, Universität Wien in Kooperation mit Tel Aviv University und New York University, 18.-22. Februar 2018 |
2017 | RN31 Sessions und Semi-Plenary Session bei der 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Athen, 29. August – 2 September 2017 |
2014 | Mid-term Conference des RN31, European Sociological Association: “Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism in the Shadow of the Holocaust”, Universität Wien, 4.-6. September 2014 |
seit 2009 | Organisation von Panels und Streams bei der jährlichen Critical Theory Conference, John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago (Critical Theory and Antisemitism 2011, Critical Theory and Remembrance 2013, Critical Theory and Ideology Critique 2014, Critical Theory and Gender 2015 und 2017) |
2009 | Symposium “Europa und das Andere – Konflikte um Geschlecht und Religion”, Institut für Konfliktforschung, Universität Wien und Demokratiezentrum, 26. März 2009 |