Fellows Yazid Ben Hounet 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Research Fellow CNRS, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Social, Paris Anthropology of Colonial Crime. Laghouat (Algeria) in Perspective Molly Bernstein 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Independent Researcher History Filastini Footnotes. Palestinian Israeli Literature Across Time and Space Paul Takunda Chiwona 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 PhD Candidate Arts x Science: Transformation Studies University of Applied Arts Vienna Produce, Destroy, Decolonize. Creative Resistance to Digital Colonialism in Zimbabwe Lena Ekelund 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Independent Researcher German Literature Just in Time. New Narratives of Female Ageing and Old Age Elif Gül 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 PhD Candidate Gender Studies & Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna The Material-Semiotics of Birth Violence. An Ethnography in Viennese Hospitals Olivia Helmholz-Vero 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 PhD Candidate Institute for English & American Studies University of Vienna Working-Class (Self-)Representation in 2010s British Sitcoms Michael Hollogschwandtner 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 Doktorand Fakultätszentrum für transdisziplinäre historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Studien Universität Wien Beliefs in ›Holocaust education‹. An interview study of tour guides at memorial sites Daniel Patrick Horn 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Lecturer Art History Freie Universität Berlin Parallel Exposure. Expanded Minds and Postcolonial Consciousness in the 1960s Györgyi Horváth 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Independent Researcher Media Studies Women’s Digital Grassroots in Illiberal Hungary Christiane Kues 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Independent Researcher Cultural Studies On the Coloniality of Infrastructures. Archive Studies on Postcolonial Nigeria Brigitta Kuster 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Professorin Institut für Kulturwissenschaft & Medienwissenschaft Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Towards a Cinema of Care. Eine Kinotheorie der Sorge Miguel Llanos de la Guardia 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Independent Researcher Comparative Literature Radical Transactions. Broken Coins, Silver Flows, and the Problem of Intercultural Translation in the Early Modern Pacific Maria Pasaricek 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 PhD Candidate Department of History University of Graz Un_Heard? Negotiations of Belonging and Deafness since the Late 19th Century Tanja Petrović 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Principal Research Associate The Institute of Culture & Memory Studies ZRC SAZU, Ljubijana Violent Work, Work of Violence. Entangled Histories of Mining and Violence Lisa Francesca Rail 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 Doktorandin Institut für Kultur- & Sozialanthropologie Universität Wien Commons vor dem Gesetz. Zum Spannungsverhältnis von Gemeinschaftsalmen und Privateigentum Jacob Reimer 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 PhD Candidate Department of Comparative Literature UC Irvine Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads. A Renewed Critique of the Subject of Wissenschaft and Bildung Peter Schneider 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 Doktorand Institut für Philosophie Universität Wien »Lebe aufrichtig und verborgen«. Präsenz und Abwesenheit zwischen Simone Weil, Colette Peignot und Georges Bataille Luisa Standop 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 Doktorandin Abteilung Kulturwissenschaft Kunstuniversität Linz Ästhetiken des Erinnerns. Kunst- und Kulturkooperationen zwischen Peru und der DDR Anna Weithaler 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 Doktorandin Institut für Politikwissenschaft Universität Wien Demokratische Repräsentation. Eine ideengeschichtlich fundierte Neukonzeption ifk FellowsAbroad Tekla Aslanishvili 01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026 PhD CandidateInstitute for Art Theory & Cultural StudiesAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna The Mountain Speaks to the Sea. Mapping New Energy Geographies Sofie Kronberger 01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026 PhD CandidateDepartment of Social & Cultural AnthropologyUniversity of Vienna Learning to Listen. (Re-)Configurations of Hearing and Artificial Intelligence Catherine Raya Polishchuk 01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026 PhD CandidateDepartment of Social & Cultural AnthropologyUniversity of Vienna Urban Renewal in Vienna. Caught Between Social Democratic and Neoliberal Values Jennifer Portschy 01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026 PhD CandidateDepartment of Archaeologies University of Innsbruck Bioarchaeology of Motherhood, Childhood and Infant Care in the Early Middle Ages Sabrina Stranzl 01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026 PhD CandidateDepartment of Empirical Cultural Studies and Political AnthropologyKarl-Franzens-University Graz Sex_Work as Care_Work?! Ethnographic and Cultural-Analytical Perspectives on Sex Work in the Care_Work Context of Sexuality, Intimacy and Emotionality Sandra Wabnitz 01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026 PhD CandidateFaculty of Historical & Cultural StudiesUniversity of Vienna Horse Lords of the Eurasian Steppe. A Historiographical Comparison, 300–900 Post Navigation
Yazid Ben Hounet 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Research Fellow CNRS, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Social, Paris Anthropology of Colonial Crime. Laghouat (Algeria) in Perspective
Molly Bernstein 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Independent Researcher History Filastini Footnotes. Palestinian Israeli Literature Across Time and Space
Paul Takunda Chiwona 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 PhD Candidate Arts x Science: Transformation Studies University of Applied Arts Vienna Produce, Destroy, Decolonize. Creative Resistance to Digital Colonialism in Zimbabwe
Lena Ekelund 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Independent Researcher German Literature Just in Time. New Narratives of Female Ageing and Old Age
Elif Gül 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 PhD Candidate Gender Studies & Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna The Material-Semiotics of Birth Violence. An Ethnography in Viennese Hospitals
Olivia Helmholz-Vero 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 PhD Candidate Institute for English & American Studies University of Vienna Working-Class (Self-)Representation in 2010s British Sitcoms
Michael Hollogschwandtner 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 Doktorand Fakultätszentrum für transdisziplinäre historisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Studien Universität Wien Beliefs in ›Holocaust education‹. An interview study of tour guides at memorial sites
Daniel Patrick Horn 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Lecturer Art History Freie Universität Berlin Parallel Exposure. Expanded Minds and Postcolonial Consciousness in the 1960s
Györgyi Horváth 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Independent Researcher Media Studies Women’s Digital Grassroots in Illiberal Hungary
Christiane Kues 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Independent Researcher Cultural Studies On the Coloniality of Infrastructures. Archive Studies on Postcolonial Nigeria
Brigitta Kuster 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Professorin Institut für Kulturwissenschaft & Medienwissenschaft Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Towards a Cinema of Care. Eine Kinotheorie der Sorge
Miguel Llanos de la Guardia 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Independent Researcher Comparative Literature Radical Transactions. Broken Coins, Silver Flows, and the Problem of Intercultural Translation in the Early Modern Pacific
Maria Pasaricek 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 PhD Candidate Department of History University of Graz Un_Heard? Negotiations of Belonging and Deafness since the Late 19th Century
Tanja Petrović 01 October 2026 - 31 January 2027 Principal Research Associate The Institute of Culture & Memory Studies ZRC SAZU, Ljubijana Violent Work, Work of Violence. Entangled Histories of Mining and Violence
Lisa Francesca Rail 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 Doktorandin Institut für Kultur- & Sozialanthropologie Universität Wien Commons vor dem Gesetz. Zum Spannungsverhältnis von Gemeinschaftsalmen und Privateigentum
Jacob Reimer 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 PhD Candidate Department of Comparative Literature UC Irvine Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads. A Renewed Critique of the Subject of Wissenschaft and Bildung
Peter Schneider 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 Doktorand Institut für Philosophie Universität Wien »Lebe aufrichtig und verborgen«. Präsenz und Abwesenheit zwischen Simone Weil, Colette Peignot und Georges Bataille
Luisa Standop 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 Doktorandin Abteilung Kulturwissenschaft Kunstuniversität Linz Ästhetiken des Erinnerns. Kunst- und Kulturkooperationen zwischen Peru und der DDR
Anna Weithaler 01 October 2026 - 30 June 2027 Doktorandin Institut für Politikwissenschaft Universität Wien Demokratische Repräsentation. Eine ideengeschichtlich fundierte Neukonzeption
Tekla Aslanishvili 01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026 PhD CandidateInstitute for Art Theory & Cultural StudiesAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna The Mountain Speaks to the Sea. Mapping New Energy Geographies
Sofie Kronberger 01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026 PhD CandidateDepartment of Social & Cultural AnthropologyUniversity of Vienna Learning to Listen. (Re-)Configurations of Hearing and Artificial Intelligence
Catherine Raya Polishchuk 01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026 PhD CandidateDepartment of Social & Cultural AnthropologyUniversity of Vienna Urban Renewal in Vienna. Caught Between Social Democratic and Neoliberal Values
Jennifer Portschy 01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026 PhD CandidateDepartment of Archaeologies University of Innsbruck Bioarchaeology of Motherhood, Childhood and Infant Care in the Early Middle Ages
Sabrina Stranzl 01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026 PhD CandidateDepartment of Empirical Cultural Studies and Political AnthropologyKarl-Franzens-University Graz Sex_Work as Care_Work?! Ethnographic and Cultural-Analytical Perspectives on Sex Work in the Care_Work Context of Sexuality, Intimacy and Emotionality
Sandra Wabnitz 01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026 PhD CandidateFaculty of Historical & Cultural StudiesUniversity of Vienna Horse Lords of the Eurasian Steppe. A Historiographical Comparison, 300–900