Fellows

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 - 31 January 2026

Professor

Department of Classical Philology & Italian Studies
University of Bologna
How Islands Shape Lines, Signs and Scripts
01 October 2025 - 31 January 2026

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology & Anthropology
University of Texas, El Paso
Post-Soviet Energy Geopolitics-Infrastructure-Expertise. A Pipeline Biography
01 October 2025 - 31 January 2026

Associate Professor

Literary Studies
Universität Erfurt
Theory in Translation. French Theory in East Central Europe
01 October 2025 - 31 January 2026

Independent Researcher, Writer and
Movement Participant
From the Margins to the Future. Cultures that can Survive Eco-Apocalypse
01 October 2025 - 31 January 2026

Associate Researcher
ifk
Montage and Solidarity. From the Third International to Third World Revolution
01 October 2025 - 31 January 2026

Associate Researcher
ifk
Becoming Helene Deutsch. Psychoanalysis, Migration, and Feminism
01 October 2025 - 31 January 2026

Independent Researcher
Philosophy
Beyond Genomics. The Recent History of High-Throughput Research Cultures in the Life Sciences
01 October 2025 - 31 January 2026

Associate Researcher
ifk
Word Struggles. Discourse, Politics, Science
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
01 October 2025 - 31 January 2026

Senior Lecturer

Department of Games & Arts
Abertay University
The Work of Others. Exploring Marginalized Representations of Labor in Video Games

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