Information about consultation hours
No regular consultation hours during the summer holiday break
Attention: During the summer holiday break between 01.07.2018 and 30.09.2018, 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 |
| Bargetz, Brigitte | Gender and Politics, Critical Science Literacy, Affect Studies, Theories of Everyday Life, Queer Feminist Theories, Cultural Studies, Democracy Theory and Political Theory |
| 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 |
| Brad, Alina | 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 |
| Chmilewski, Katja | Feminist Political Theories, Labor and Social Policy, Social Movements |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| Fossati, Flavia | Social, labour market and migration policy; labour market integration and discrimination research, social policy preferences and electoral behaviour, survey experiments |
| Garnitschnig, Ines | Scientific project employee: Making Democracy. Negotiations on freedom, equality and solidarity among young people |
| 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 |
| Graf, Irene | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Grahofer, Jutta | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Haselbacher, Miriam | Migration Policy, Integration Research |
| Hasenöhrl, Syntia | Gender and Politics, Mobility Studies, Diaspora Politics, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Discourse Studies |
| Hattmannsdorfer, Helena | Migration Policy, Integration Research, European and National Asylum Politics, Ethnography, Gender Studies |
| Kathan, Michaela | Organizational Assistant, administrative staff of the Department |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ludwig, Gundula | Political Theory: State-, Power- and Democracy Theories, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Body Theories |
| Maneka, Danyal | International political economy, critical studies of the European Union, materialist state- and social theory, feminist theory |
| Marchart, Oliver (Head of Department) | Political Theory, Theory of Society, Theory of Democracy, History of Political Ideas, Social Movement Research, Precariousness Research, Political Discourse Analysis |
| Melchior, Josef (Director of Studies) | The Political System of the European Union, Europeanization Research, Inequality and Democracy |
| Menkovski, Bojan | Studies Service Unit Political Science |
| Moder, Clara | Civil society, social movements, democracy, transition processes, Central and Eastern Europe |
| Müller-Uri, Fanny (currently on leave) | Racism research, Antimuslim racism, Feminist Theories, Critical Migration Research, Postcolonial and Capitalism criticism |
| 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 |
| Pot, Mirjam | Interpretative Policy Research, Critical Policy Analysis, Qualitative Methods, Health Policy, Personalized Medicine, Theories and Practices of Solidarity |
| Prainsack, Barbara | 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 |
| Pranzl, Joachim | Political Participation, Democracy, Democratic Innovations, Southeastern Europe, Southeastern European History |
| 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 |
| Riesinger, Katharina | Project assistant in the research project KNOW-VACC: Knowledge production and governance in vaccination policy. A comparison of vaccination registries in Austria and the Netherlands. |
| Rosenberger, Sieglinde | Inclusion and Exclusion in the context of Migration, Austrian Politics and Europeanization, Governance and Differences/Diversity, Political Participation and Protest |
| Sauer, Birgit | Gender and Politics, Political Representation of Women, Critical State, Governance and Democracy Studies, Gender and Governance, Politics and Emotions, Right-wing populism |
| Schneider, Etienne | International Relations, International Political Economy, Eurozone crisis, European economic and monetary integration, Monetary Policy, Industrial Policy |
| Schreier, Stefan | Administrative staff of the Department |
| Schütze, Theresa | Politics of inclusion and exclusion, Inside the Deportation Gap: Social Membership for Non-Deported Persons |
| Seisl, Benedikt | Political Theory, Theory of Democracy, Political Economy, European Integration and Europeanization |
| Spahl, Wanda | Social Policy, Public Health, Citizenship Studies, Qualitative Methods, Migration Studies |
| Spöri, Tobias | Political Participation, Political Socialization, Eastern Europe, Legacy of State Socialism, Transformation Processes |
| Spurny, Katharina | Administrative staff of the Department |
| 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 |