Fellows

01 March - 30 June 2026

Professor

Faculty of Humanities & Cultural Studies
University of Passau
The Pastiche Past. Society, Heritage, and Place in the Premodern Period
01 March - 30 June 2026

Research Assistant

Institute for Slavic Studies
University of Graz
Transition als Translation. Dekolonisierung und Mehrsprachigkeit in osteuropäischen Kulturen
01 March - 30 June 2026

Independent Researcher

Cultural Studies
Antebellum to Postbellum. Evolution of Female Fiction in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan
01 March - 30 June 2026

Independent Researcher

Slavic Studies
Soviet, European and American Film History from a Transnational Queer/Masculinities Studies Perspective
01 March - 30 June 2026

Professor

Department of History
Duke University
Hurban, Exile, and Diaspora in Jewish History
01 March - 30 June 2026

Professor

Department of English and American Studies
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Szenarien des Verzichts
01 March - 30 June 2026

Independent Researcher

Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Pluriverse and Relationality from an Andean Ethnographic Perspective
01 March - 30 June 2026

ifk Writer in Residence

Author
Das Blaue vom Himmel
01 March - 30 June 2026

Associate Professor

English & Cultural Studies
Hassan II University of Casablanca
Archives Through a Decolonial Lens. Moroccan Performers and Cultural Encounters in European Circuses (1820–1950)
01 March - 30 June 2026

Researcher

Faculty of Humanities
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
A Spiral of History. Iosif Trumpeldor, Nikolai Russel, Kōtoku Shūsui, and the ›Hamadera Moment‹
01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026

PhD Candidate

Department of Slavic Studies
University of Vienna
Liberation afoot. Movement(s) in Early Yugoslav Partisan Film (1947–1962)
01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026

PhD Candidate

Department of German
New York University
›A Delicate Task‹. Theatres of Diplomacy in Austria
01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026

PhD Candidate

Department of Development Studies
University of Vienna
Wind Turbines in Southern Mexico. Impacts on Indigenous Children and Options for a Just Transition
01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026

PhD Candidate

Graduate School Language & Literature
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Persephone in the Time of Anorexia. Poetics and Pathology of Slenderness and Food-Refusal in Myth, Psychoanalysis, and Contemporary Women’s Writing

ifk Fellows
Abroad

01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026

PhD Candidate

Institute for Art Theory & Cultural Studies
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
The Mountain Speaks to the Sea. Mapping New Energy Geographies
01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026

PhD Candidate

Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology
University of Vienna
Learning to Listen. (Re-)Configurations of Hearing and Artificial Intelligence
01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026

PhD Candidate

Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology
University of Vienna
Urban Renewal in Vienna. Caught Between Social Democratic and Neoliberal Values
01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026

PhD Candidate

Department of Archaeologies
University of Innsbruck
Bioarchaeology of Motherhood, Childhood and Infant Care in the Early Middle Ages
01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026

PhD Candidate

Department of Empirical Cultural Studies and Political Anthropology
Karl-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
01 October 2025 - 30 June 2026

PhD Candidate

Faculty of Historical & Cultural Studies
University of Vienna
Horse Lords of the Eurasian Steppe. A Historiographical Comparison, 300–900