Information about consultation hours
No presence consultation hours in the period 11 March 2020 to 4 April 2020 - Current situation regarding the Coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) at the University of Vienna
To whom it concern,
dear students,
Attention: Due to the current situation regarding the Coronavirus (SARS CoV-2) in Austria, there will be no teaching and other public events or examinations at the University of Vienna from 11 March 2020 to 4 April 2020. Teaching will instead take place in the form of remote learning (particularly via e-learning). During this period there will be no presence office hours. Update: The University of Vienna stops all operations requiring its members’ attendance at the University and changes to emergency operation as of 16 March 2020! This is expected to continue until 14 April 2020! The changes to remote learning remain unaffected. Please contact the individual persons by e-mail regarding urgent inquiries. All further, continuously updated information regarding the current situation at the University of Vienna can be found at https://www.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/further-information/coronavirus/.
Thanks for your understanding!
Staff of the Department of Political Science
The team of scientific and administrative colleagues at the department.
Information for media representatives: Use the search field to find a suitable contact person. Alternatively you can contact Nina Spurny (01 4277 49422 | 01 4277 49402).
| Name | Work and Research fields |
| Bergmann, Astrid | Feminist Theory, Feminist Political Economy, Political Theory |
| Bernhardt, Petra | Visual political communication, Strategic communication, political advertising and branding, Photojournalism, Terror and Violence Iconography, Qualitative Visual Methods |
| Boos, Tobias | Politics and Populism in Latin America, Middle Class in Latin America, Political Economy, State theory of the Global South, Political Theory |
| Brad, Alina (currently on leave) | International envrionmental and resource politics, political ecology, politics of scale, socio-ecological conflicts, regional focus: South East Asia |
| Brand, Ulrich (Deputy Head of Department) | International Politics, Critical State, Governance and Globalization Studies, International Political Ecology, Economic Policy, Environmental Policy, Democracy Theory and Political Theory |
| Brogat, Emmanuelle | Research Administration and coordination, ERC Research Project MARIPOLDATA |
| Cakir, Alev | Scientific project assistant in the research project Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe (MiCREATE) |
| Dalpra, Elio | Research interests include human rights and fundamental freedoms – especially freedom of expression and freedom of the arts, constitutional law, parliamentary systems, political participation and protest |
| Dursun, Ayse | Feminist Theory, Policies of Gender Equality, Intersecionality, Social movements, Migration |
| Egger, Manuela | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Erdmann, Madita | (Intersectional) feminist and postcolonial theories of International Relations, Eurocentrism and Racism in International Relations, critical security and border studies, critical migration studies, regional interests: Indian subcontinent, Kashmir |
| Falkner, Gerda (Head of the EIF – Centre for European Integration Research) | European Integration, Europeanisation, Problems with transposition and application of EU law, The EU’s social dimension and anti-discrimination policy |
| Fankhauser, Ingrid | Administrative employee, research group Latin American studies |
| Flatscher, Matthias | Political Theory, Language and Social Philosophy, Political Ideas, Democracy Theories and Discourses of Alterity |
| Gebh, Sara | Political Theory and the History of Political Ideas: Democratic Theory, Democracy and Conflict, Theories of Resistance, (Civil) Disobedience and Protest, Theories of the State of Exception, Theories of Constituent Power, Ancient Political Thought |
| Gmoser, Susanne | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Gold-Ponesch, Sarah | Feminism, academia and motherhood as situated knowledges; (queer)feminist science and technology studies; resilience and security; critical feminist and security studies; (queer)feminist and postcolonial theories in International Relations; homonationalism and orientalism in Western Europe |
| Graf, Irene | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Grahofer, Jutta | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Graziani, Chiara | Student Project Assistant at the Centre for European Integration Research (EIF) |
| Haselbacher, Miriam (currently on leave) | Migration Policy, Integration Research |
| Hasenöhrl, Syntia | Gender and Politics, Mobility Studies, Diaspora Politics, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Discourse Studies |
| Högelsberger, Heinz | The research aims to contribute to a better understanding of possibilities and obstacles regarding socialecological conversion of the automotive industry and the respective roles of employees and their interests groups |
| Kathan, Michaela | Organizational Assistant, administrative staff of the Department |
| Kettner, Verena | Feminist Political Theories, Queertheory, Affects and Emotions, Body Politics, Feminist Political Economy |
| Kieslich, Katharina | Comparative health policy; comparative public policy; health priority setting and rationing; health technology assessment; social values in health priority setting; public participation in health care decision-making. |
| Köpl, Regina | Feminist Science Criticism, Politics of Gender Relations, Subjectivity and Subject Concept, Industrial Culture, Media-Power-Society |
| Krams, Mathias | Social Movements, Resistance, Space, Conflict, Political Ecology, Climate and Energy Policies, Materialist State Theory |
| Krischek, Caroline | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Langlet, Arne | Scientific researcher, ERC Research Project MARIPOLDATA |
| Liebhart, Karin (Senior Lecturer, Vice-Director of Studies) | Visual Politics and Visual Cultures; Political Communication and Campaigning; Discursive and Visual Representations of Politics; Right-wing Populism, Right-wing Extremism, Anti-pluralistic Politics; Memory politics; Gender Studies; Qualitative Methods in Social Research |
| Liepold, Mira | Project employee in the research project Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe (MiCREATE) |
| Loschi, Chiara | EU border management policies and implementation, EU migration policy, fundamental rights, MENA region and eastern Europe migration policies |
| Maneka, Danyal | International political economy, critical studies of the European Union, materialist state- and social theory, feminist theory |
| Marchart, Oliver (currently on scientific leave) | Political Theory, Theory of Society, Theory of Democracy, History of Political Ideas, Social Movement Research, Precariousness Research, Political Discourse Analysis |
| Meissner, Katharina | EU trade policy, EU relations with South America and Southeast Asia, inter-regionalism |
| Melchior, Josef (Director of Studies) | The Political System of the European Union, Europeanization Research, Inequality and Democracy |
| Menkovski, Bojan | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Müller, Patrick | European Integration, European Union´s International Relations, The EU´s role in Global Governance, The EU´s Common Foreign and Security Policy, EU-Mediterranean Relations, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict |
| Naue, Ursula (Senior Lecturer) | Disability Politics and Policies, Politics of Dementia and Age(ing), Participation Research, Inclusion Research |
| Novak, Christoph | Critical migration research; Empirical social research; Feminist, postmigration and postcolonial studies; Critical whiteness studies; Racism |
| Opratko, Benjamin | Racism and Islamophobia; Right wing populism; Critical Political Theory, Gramscian theories of Hegemony; International Political Economy |
| Paul, Katharina T. | Health Policy, Vaccination Policy, Regulation, Medical & Biopolitics, Critical Policy Analysis, Interpretative Policy Research |
| Penz, Otto | Sociology of the Body, Beauty and Emotions, Sociology of Sport, Sociology of Work, Political Sociology |
| Pichelstorfer, Anna | Biopolitics, science and democracy, health policy, participation |
| Pieper, Milena | European Union and Europeanisation, Austrian politics, political participation, migration, right-wing populism |
| Plank, Christina | §99 Guest Professorship for Eastern European Studies |
| Pot, Mirjam | Interpretative Policy Research, Critical Policy Analysis, Qualitative Methods, Health Policy, Personalized Medicine, Theories and Practices of Solidarity |
| Prainsack, Barbara (Head of Department, managing) | Health policy; practices, institutions and politics of solidarity; political, social and ethical aspects of Personalised Medicine; data-rich practices in science and medicine; regulation of DNA technologies in medicine and forensics; comparative science & technology policy |
| Preiser, Anna | University Assistant Prae Doc, in the research field of International Politics |
| Pribersky, Andreas (Erasmuscoordinator) | Visual Studies, Political Symbols and Rituals, Visual Policy, Eastern European Studies, EU Enlargement, Political Cultures, Comparative Political Science, Political Anthropology |
| Raffa, Monja | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Rajic, Danijela | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Riesinger, Katharina | Student project assistant in the research projects InsSciDE – Inventing a shared Science Diplomacy for Europe & KNOW-VACC: Knowledge production and governance in vaccination policy |
| Rosenberger, Sieglinde (Deputy Head of Department) | Inclusion and Exclusion in the context of Migration, Austrian Politics and Europeanization, Governance and Differences/Diversity, Political Participation and Protest |
| Ruiz R., Silvia C. | International Environmental Policy, International Marine Protection, Pnternational Political Economy |
| Sauer, Birgit (currently on scientific leave; Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences) | Gender and Politics, Political Representation of Women, Critical State, Governance and Democracy Studies, Gender and Governance, Politics and Emotions, Right-wing populism |
| Schicketanz, Enrico | Project employee at the research project Social-Ecological Transformation: Industrial Conversion and the Role of Labour (CON-LABOUR) |
| Schlögl, Lukas | Comparative policy analysis in the context of economic and technological change; the future of work; post-industrialisation; development policy; Southeast Asia; |
| Schoeller, Magnus | EU economic and monetary policy, Eurozone crisis management, Germany and Franco-German relationship in E(M)U, the European Parliament in EU policies |
| Schreier, Stefan | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Schweitzer, Reinhard | Migration and integration, citizenship and belonging, asylum and migration policy (making), irregular migration, critical border studies, migration and fundamental rights |
| Segarra, Helena (currently on leave) | Migration Policy, Integration Research, European and National Asylum Politics, Ethnography, Gender Studies |
| Slominski, Peter | European Integration with focus on EU energy policy, the EU's fight against climate change |
| Spahl, Wanda | Social Policy, Public Health, Citizenship Studies, Qualitative Methods, Migration Studies |
| Spurny, Katharina | Administrative staff of the Department, Public Relations |
| Sowa, Florian | Administrative staff of the EIF – Centre for European Integration Research |
| Stachowitsch, Saskia | Critical Security and Military Studies, Feminist and postcolonial International Relations, Security privatization, private security and military companies, Gender, Security and Military; Integration of women in the military , EU Border Security, transnational actors (e.g. Frontex), Parliamentarianism, Antisemitism and political Jewish history in Austria |
| Stadlmair, Jeremias | Citizenship, Austrian Politics, political participation, direct democracy, politics of inclusion/exclusion, immigrant integration |
| Stiegler, Josefa Maria | Critical Security Studies, Feminist International Relations, Security and Gender, Urban Dimensions of Security and Militarization of Urban Spaces, Feminist Urban Studies |
| Tatzber, Rosa | Migration, Education, Biographical Research, Antiziganism and Visual Sociology |
| Tessnow von Wysocki, Ina | International Cooperation, Environmental Policy, Marine Plastic Pollution |
| Thiele, Daniel | Critical theory, gender studies, right-wing populism, political communication, quantitative methods |
| Tolochko, Petro | Scientific researcher, ERC Research Project MARIPOLDATA |
| Tzanetakis, Meropi | Digital Technology, Governance of Markets, Cryptomarkets, Cross-border Crime, Illicit Drug Markets, Security Policy, Health Policy |
| Vadrot, Alice | Global Environmental Politics, Practices, discourses and institutions in international biodiversity politics, Institutions interfacing science and policy & global environmental assessments, Knowledge and power in intergouvernemental negotiations, Conflicts over the legitimacy of scientific and non-scientific environmental knowledge in international politics |
| Wolter, Stella | Collective Identity, Intersectionality, Migration, Postcolonial Theory, Theories of Power and Governance |
| Zardo, Federica (currently on leave) | EU neighbourhood policy, EU development policy (especially towards the Mediterranean and the Middle East); EU democracy promotion (Arab countries); EU migration policy |
| Zeller, Florian | Right Wing Extremism Research, Gender and Politics and Political Theory |