Information about consultation hours
No regular consultation hours during the semester holiday break
Attention: During the summer holiday break between 01.07.2019 and 30.09.2019, there will be no regular consultation hours, unless they are not announced extra. For announcements, please visit the homepage of the directorate of studies or the respective, personal subpages below.
Staff of the Department of Political Science
The team of scientific and administrative colleagues at the department.
| 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, Iconographies of Terror and Violence, 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 (Head of Department, managing) | 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 |
| 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 |
| Deters, Henning | EU law and policy-making in fiscal, environmental and energy policy issues; the EU's internal market and social regulation |
| Dursun, Ayse | Feminist Theory, Policies of Gender Equality, Intersecionality, Social movements, Migration |
| Egger, Manuela | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Ehs, Tamara | Social issues of democracy and the rule of law, constitutional jurisdiction, direct and participatory democracy, legal and historical foundations of European integration (in particular ECJ) |
| 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 |
| Gassner, Beate | Gender-based violence, intersectionality, violence against children and adolescents, social movements, migration, inequality, political economy |
| 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 |
| Haselbacher, Miriam (currently on leave) | Migration Policy, Integration Research |
| Hasenöhrl, Syntia | Gender and Politics, Mobility Studies, Diaspora Politics, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Discourse Studies |
| Hattmannsdorfer, Helena (currently on leave) | Migration Policy, Integration Research, European and National Asylum Politics, Ethnography, Gender Studies |
| Högelsberger, Heinz | Project employee in the research project "Social-Ecological Transformation: Industrial Conversion and the Role of Labor (CON-LABOR)" |
| 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 (currently on leave) | 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 |
| Landkammer, Nora | Participatory research and action research; Mediation in museums and exhibitions; Colonialism and racism-critical perspectives in educational work and cultural institutions |
| 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 |
| Maier, Carina | Critical feminist theories, combination of social and subject theories, feminist political economy, anti-feminism, educational policy, body politics |
| Maneka, Danyal | International political economy, critical studies of the European Union, materialist state- and social theory, feminist theory |
| Marchart, Oliver | 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 |
| Pot, Mirjam | Interpretative Policy Research, Critical Policy Analysis, Qualitative Methods, Health Policy, Personalized Medicine, Theories and Practices of Solidarity |
| Prainsack, Barbara (Deputy Head of Department) | 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 |
| Rajal, Elke | Politics of the past, anti-Semitism, National Socialism and the Shoah, education (political education, holocaust education, critical education on anti-Semitism and racism, pedagogy of migration) |
| Rajic, Danijela | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Rosenberger, Sieglinde (Deputy Head of Department, currently on scientific leave) | Inclusion and Exclusion in the context of Migration, Austrian Politics and Europeanization, Governance and Differences/Diversity, Political Participation and Protest |
| Sauer, Birgit (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 |
| 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 |
| Seisl, Benedikt | Political Theory, Theory of Democracy, Political Economy, European Integration and Europeanization |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Migration, Postcolonial Theory, Theories of Power and Governance |
| Zardo, Federica | EU neighbourhood policy, EU development policy (especially towards the Mediterranean and the Middle East); EU democracy promotion (Arab countries); EU migration policy |
| Zeller, Florian | Project employee, research project Cultures of Rejection (CuRe) |
| Zhurzhenko, Tatiana | Transformation processes in Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine and Russia, with foci on nation and state building, identity- and memory politics, gender studies, as well as border and regional studies |