Staff of the Department of Political Science
The team of scientific and administrative colleagues at the department.
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| Name | Work and Research fields |
| Bohle, Dorothee | Central and Eastern European economy and politics; Comparative political economy (varieties of capitalism, institutional political economy, welfare states, industrial relations, housing finance regimes); International political economy (European integration, financialisation) |
| 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 | International envrionmental and resource politics, political ecology, politics of scale, socio-ecological conflicts, regional focus: South East Asia |
| Brand, Ulrich | International politics and crisis of globalisation; international climate, environmental and resource policy; civil society; trade unions and social movements; imperial mode of living; socio-ecological transformation; Latin America |
| Brogat, Emmanuelle (currently on leave) | Research Administration and coordination, ERC Research Project MARIPOLDATA |
| Deters, Henning | EU Judicial Politics, EU Environmental and Climate Policy, EU Single Market Policy, Regional Parliaments in the EU |
| Drgac, Deborah | Social science reasearch, Health related studies in all policies, qualitative research |
| Dursun, Ayse | Feminist Theory, Policies of Gender Equality, Intersecionality, Social movements, Migration |
| Egger, Manuela | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| El-Sayed, Seliem | Comparative political and legal studies, regulation and governance, public policy, big data and artificial intelligence, data protection and privacy, anti-discrimination, Computational Social 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 | Coordinator of the Research Network Latin America studies |
| Flatscher, Matthias | Political Theory, Language and Social Philosophy, Political Ideas, Democracy Theories and Discourses of Alterity |
| Fridrik, Stefanie | Institutional Critique (main focus on the museum), postcolonial theory and decolonization of hegemonial structures, discourse analysis, qualitative methods, research field: conflict theory, agonistic democracy theory and art and cultural policy in Austria |
| Fuhrmann, Phoebe Ruth | Research Administration and coordination, ERC Research Project MARIPOLDATA |
| 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 |
| Hadj-Abdou, Leila | Migration governance, Migration politics, European Union politics, Immigration and immigrant integration policies, and the populist radical right. |
| Hasenauer, Anna | Student research assistant in the research project Cultures of Rejection (CuRe) |
| Heidebrecht, Sebastian | EU policies for the digital age, EU digital single market, Economic governance and the Eurozone, Working conditions of platform workers |
| Josipovic, Ivan | European and national asylum policy, migration and border regimes, empirical social research |
| Kathan, Michaela | Department coordinator, 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. |
| Klausner, Nicolas | IT representative - Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology & Department of Political Science |
| Köpl, Regina | Feminist Science Criticism, Politics of Gender Relations, Subjectivity and Subject Concept, Industrial Culture, Media-Power-Society |
| Kraus Witzel, Kyra | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Krischek, Caroline | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Langlet, Arne | International and European environmental policy, the political economy of environmental and climate policy and the study of international institutions and regimes |
| Liebhart, Karin (Senior Lecturer) | Visual Political Communication; Discursive and Visual Representations of Politics; Rightwing Populism and Rightwing Extremism; Gender Studies; Memory Politics and Remembrance Cultures; Qualitative Methods |
| Liepold, Mira | Project employee in the research project Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe (MiCREATE) |
| Marchart, Oliver (Deputy Head of Department) | Political theory, social theory, democracy theory, history of political ideas, social movement research, political discourse analysis |
| Meissner-Schoeller, Katharina | EU trade policy, EU relations with South America and Southeast Asia, inter-regionalism |
| Melchior, Josef (Director of Studies - Political Science Directorate of Studies) | The Political System of the European Union, Europeanization Research, Inequality and Democracy |
| Menkovski, Bojan | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Modelhart, Antonia | Medical Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, Assisted reproductive technologies and antibiotic resistance, qualitative methods |
| Mrovlje, Maša | Contemporary and International Political Theory, Political Judgement, Narrative, Politics of Memory, Complexities of Resistance, Disappointment and Betrayal in Resistance Movements |
| 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 |
| Obendiek, Anke | EU policies for the digital age, Internet governance, Digital capitalism, Data governance, International Political Sociology |
| 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 |
| Pichelstorfer, Anna | Health Policy, Biopolitics, Global Health, Science and Democracy, Participation |
| Pot, Mirjam | Interpretative Policy Research, Critical Policy Analysis, Qualitative Methods, Health Policy, Personalized Medicine, Theories and Practices of Solidarity |
| Prainsack, Barbara (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 | Resource and environmental policy, socio-ecological conflicts, Political Ecology, Political Economy, regional focus: Latin America |
| Pribersky, Andreas (Erasmuscoordinator) | Visual Studies, Political Symbols and Rituals, Visual Policy, Eastern European Studies, EU Enlargement, Political Cultures, Comparative Political Science, Political Anthropology |
| Radhuber, Isabella | Global inequalities; Environmental, climate and resource politics; Decolonization, postcolonialism and broader questions of societal democratization; Regional focus: Latin America; Social and political dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and Latin America |
| Radl, Marlene | Feminist Political Economy, Feminist State Theory, Mediapopulism |
| Raffa, Monja | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Rajic, Danijela | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Rosenberger, Sieglinde | 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 |
| Saxinger, Gertrude | Qualitative, ethnographic and decolonial research methods; solidarity in times of a pandemic; social perspectives, in/justice and solidarity in the context of extractive industries and ‘green transition’; Russian and Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic |
| Sauer, Birgit (Vice-Director of Studies - Social Sciences Directorate of Doctoral Studies) | Gender and Politics, Political Representation of Women, Critical State, Governance and Democracy Studies, Gender and Governance, Politics and Emotions, Right-wing populism |
| Schad-Spindler, Anke | Cultural policy, cultural management, funding for arts and culture, cultural education, international cultural cooperation, deliberative democracy theory, qualitative research methods, evaluation of cultural projects Research field: conflict theory, agonistic democracy theory and art and cultural policy in Austria |
| Scheibenpflug, Valerie | Political Theory and History of Political Ideas, Boundaries, Crisis, Collective Action, Radical Democracy, Discourse Analysis, Feminist Theory |
| Schlogl, 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 |
| Schraik, Elke | EU policies tackling digital divides, i.e. policies addressing: the competition for global digital leadership; differences in access and use of the digital media between regions, countries and people |
| Schreier, Stefan | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Seidl, Timo | Comparative Political Economy of Digital Capitalism, Digital Policymaking in the EU, Ideational Explanations, Text-as-Data |
| Slominski, Peter (Vice-Director of Studies - Political Science Directorate of Studies) | 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 |
| Sowa, Florian | Administrative staff of the EIF – Centre for European Integration Research |
| 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 | Statistical modelling, text-as-data methodology and social network analysis |
| Übleis-Lang, Magdalena | Feminist political science, gendered dimensions of neoliberal politics, gender-based violence, social 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 |
| Varabyeu Kancelová, Natália | Administration Research Platform Governance of digital practices & Administrative staff of the Department |
| Wolkenstein, Fabio | Democratic Theory, Political Parties and Representation, Political Ideologies (esp. Christian Democracy and Social Democracy) |
| Wolter, Stella | Collective Identity, Intersectionality, 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 | Right Wing Extremism Research, Gender and Politics and Political Theory |