Staff Members and their main Research Areas
You can find a selection of the Department’s academic staff (professors, predoctoral, Senior Research Fellow and postdoctoral staff of the Department as well as third-party funded staff) and their main research areas below. There is a link on the last name that will redirect you to contact information and further content. For a full list of all members of the Department, please see our staff register.
| Name | Main research areas |
|---|---|
| Adamović, Slađana | migration studies, war and refugee studies, culture of remembrance and collective memory, museum studies, identity, sexual and migration politics, queer theory, urban studies |
| Ahn, Byeongsun | policymaking, program evaluation, urbanism |
| Atzmüller, Christiane | experimental vignette studies (factorial survey), quantitative methods, civil courage, youth violence |
| Azevedo, Susanna | affect theory, housing, housing crisis, critical phenomenology, cultural sociology |
| Boczy, Tatjana | urban and regional research, political sociology, sociological theory, social change and eco-social transformations |
| Bordone, Valeria | ageing, intergenerational relationships, grandparent(hood), family, wellbeing, health |
| Breckner, Roswitha | visual sociology, methododologies of interpretive sociology, biographical research, social media from a biographical perspective |
| Cabaraban, Maria Karlene Shawn | aging, intergenerational relationships, gender and marital transitions, population health and well-being |
| Dafert, Vera | families, parenthood, youth, family transitions, qualitative social research |
| Dowling, Emma | critical social theory, feminist political economy, affect theory, sociology of work, socio-ecological transformation, gender, care work and social reproduction, welfare state, services of general interest and social policy, financialization of the social, social movements, participatory research methods |
| Dürr, Agnes | family, parenthood, gender, qualitative social research |
| Durnová, Anna | political sociology, sociology of emotions, feminist sociology, public policy and interpretative social research |
| Erben-Harter, Sabine | family, childhood, single parents, qualitative social research |
| Flicker, Eva | visual sociology/ film-/ media sociology, gender, organisation/ group dynamics |
| Grabner, Lena | family, children and youth, qualitative and participatory social research |
| Haddad, Christian | medical sociology and global health; Science & Technology Studies, critical innovation studies; political economy of pharmaceutical research and innovation; interpretive sociology; critical theories |
| Heisse, Andrea | AI companions, (grief) counseling, communication, qualitative research, ethnography |
| Hilmar, Till | sociology of culture, political sociology, comparative transformation studies, inequality narratives, social memory, text-as-data |
| Ihrig, Felix Lene | affect theory, experiences of discrimination, gender diversity, healthcare, political sociology, queer and trans studies |
| Jokić-Bornstein, Jelena | qualitative methods, (forced) migration, (post-conflict) diasporas and diasporic culture, identity and memory, integration and social cohesion, gender |
| Kazepov, Yuri | international urban sociology, comparative social policy |
| Karmann, Anna | comparative family policy, social inequality, quantitative methods |
| Kiermaier, Johanna | family, parenthood, gender, qualitative social research |
| Liedl, Bernd | social structure, social inequality, work, poverty, data center |
| Metzger, Sandrine | life course, gender inequalities, health, family demography, quantitative methods |
| Mijić, Ana | sociology of knowledge and culture, sociology of identity and ethnicity, sociological theory, objective hermeneutics |
| Mühlböck, Monika | labour market policy, youth unemployment, social inequality, representation, public policy, European integration, quantitative methods |
| Parisot, Viktoria | families, family transitions, separation and divorce, qualitative social research |
| Parzer, Michael | culture and social inequality, inclusion/exclusion, migration and social participation, interpretive social research |
| Pernhaupt, Niklas Lucca | cognitive sociology of culture, imagination, sociology of design, comparative social research |
| Pfadenhauer, Michaela | sociology of knowledge, artificial intelligence, communication, knowledge cultures, mediatization, interpretative paradigm |
| Reitter, Victoria | qualitative social research, migration, statelessness, citizenship, organizational sociology, street-level bureaucracy, and institutional work |
| Schäfer, Sarah Helena | political sociology, sociology of emotions, spiritual climate change discourse, international relations, Tibet |
| Scheibelhofer, Elisabeth | interpretative social research, migration, mobility, transnational social spaces |
| Schimek, Daniela | family, childhood and youth, qualitative and participatory social research, gender |
| Steiber, Nadia | social stratification and social inequality, education and social mobility, employment, family, ageing, well-being/health, quantitative methods |
| Vogtenhuber, Stefan | social stratification, education, skill formation and training, labour market, employment, quantitative methods, data visualization |
| Vollmer, Theresa | sociology of knowledge, sociology of culture, interpretative social research, sociology of music |
| Vorlíček, Dagmar | international political sociology, security, war, international relations, science and technology |
| Waibel, Marvin | sociology of knowledge, communicative AI, subjectification, interpretive social research |
| Warzewska, Emelia | urban and regional research, eco-social transformations, inequalities, and vulnerabilities, social housing, green and digital transformations, mapping, data visualization |
| Zartler, Ulrike | family, childhood, divorce, transitions in the life course, motherhood, qualitative research methods |