Faculty

Nikolaus Benke

He received his Ph.D. in Law from the University of Vienna in 1978, accomplished the habilitation in 1989 and was appointed professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna in 1993. Since 2000 he is Head of the Department of Roman Law and Ancient Legal History. His research interests include Roman Law and Legal History, Private Law, Comparative Law, Legal Methodology, Legal Education, and Legal Gender Studies, both historical and contemporary. He has  established and coordinated (since 1999) a specializing program (“Wahlfachkorb”) in Legal Gender Studies at the Viennese Faculty of Law. He is editor of the "Wiener Studien zu Geschichte, Recht und Gesellschaft – Viennese Studies in History, Law and Society", a series dedicated to Ph.D. and habilitation publications. He received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) of the University of London (U.K.) in 1982, and accomplished his studies in Munich and Geneva. He was a guest professor at the University of Kansas (Lawrence) in 1994 and at the University of Graz in the winter term 2001/02. He regularly conducts gender sensitivity trainings for diverse target groups such as university executives or female junior faculty. For ten years (1991-2001) he was commissioner and Vice Chair of the Working Group on Equal Treatment at the University of Vienna.

Homepage:
http://roemr.univie.ac.at/mitarbeiterinnen/univ-prof-dr-nikolaus-benke-llm/

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Eva Flicker

Born 1963 in Wien/Austria, is associate professor of sociology at the Institute of  Sociology, University Vienna. She received her master degree in sociology in 1991, her PhD in sociology in 1997 and achieved her habilitation in 2006, all at University of Vienna.
Her fields of research comprise sociology of communication in different aspects: media, film and communication, communication in teams and organizations, group dynamics and career trainings for female scientists and visual sociology.
She was active member of the Center for Gender Equality and Equal Treatment from 1999-2006 and is still member of the faculty conference for the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Vienna. Since 2008 she is study programme director for the master in gender studies at University Vienna.
Her two daughters were born in 1992 and 1994.

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Susanne Hochreiter

Born 1970 in Vienna, is assistant professor of German Studies at the German Department, University of Vienna. She studied German philology, history of art, philosophy, psychology, and education at the University of Vienna and the Free University Berlin. In 2003 she received her PhD from the University of Vienna. In her PhD thesis she analyzed the relation of space and gender in works by Franz Kafka.
Hochreiter was visiting professor at the University of Bern (2001) and at Wake Forest University (2007-08). In 2006 she received a grant for research work at the University of Hamburg.
Her research interests include gender relations and gender constructions in literature, queer studies and literature, performance and performativity. She is co-organizer of the lecture series „Feminist Theory and Gender Studies“ at the Institute for Science and Art (IWK) in Vienna together with Dr. Silvia Stoller (Department of Philosophy). Together with Andrea Braidt (Department of Theater, Film, and
Media) she plans and organizes the lecture series „Queer Interventions“ in Vienna. As equal opportunity officer she is involved in the gender equality and anti-discrimination activites at University of Vienna.

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Elisabeth Holzleithner

Born 1970 (Baden/Wien, Austria), received her Ph.D in Law from the University of Vienna, where she is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Legal Philosophy, Law of Religion and Culture. Her research interests include legal gender studies, pluralism and its legal management by tolerance, neutrality or multiculturalism and theories of justice. Her publications, lectures and research projects continuously focus on legal gender issues, liberalism and critical legal studies.
She has received several prizes, among them the Gabriele Possanner Sponsorship for Scientific Achievements advancing Gender Democracy in Austria. She was a guest professor at the University of Zurich in the winter term of 2006/07 and at the University of Graz in the winter term 2001/02. She teaches in the European Studies Master Program of the University of Vienna, the Gender Master Program at the University of Zurich and at the Rosa Mayreder-College. She also regularly conducts
gender sensitivity trainings for diverse target groups such as university executives or female junior faculty. For seven years (1994-2001) she was the head of the Working Group on Equal Treatment at the University of Vienna.

Homepage:
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/elisabeth.holzleithner

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Eva Kreisky

Born in 1944 in Vienna/Austria, is professor of political science at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna. She studied law at the University of Vienna and received her doctorate in 1971. She attended a post-graduate program in Political Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. From 1972 to 1979, she was a research assistant and from 1979 to 1989 head of the Department of Political Science at the Institute for Advanced Studies. In 1987, she received her
habilitation at the University of Vienna. From 1989 to 1993, she was professor of political science and Women Studies at the Otto-Suhr-Institute, Free University of Berlin, and from 1993 to 1995 visiting professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna.
Her research interests include political theory and history of political philosophy, state theories, institutions and bureaucracy, politics of gender relations, and political and cultural dimensions of masculinities. She is vice-dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and especially involved with the advancement of early stage researchers. She was co-founder of the post-graduate program "Gender Kolleg" at the University of Vienna. Her recent and current fields of research include football and gender, as well as state, violence, and gender. She received the Gabriele Possaner State Award for the advancement of gender democracy in 1999, and the Käthe Leichter State Award for Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, and Equalization in the work place in 2008.

Homepage:
http://evakreisky.at

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Elke Mader

Born in Salzburg in 1954, is professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and vice dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna. She studied anthropology, history of art and prehistoric archeology at the University of Vienna and at the University of California. She received her PhD and her habilitation at the University of Vienna. She did extensive fieldwork in South America (1979 -1981; 1990-1994; 1997-2000) focusing on Amerindian societies in the Amazon region, in particular on questions of gender, myth/ritual, and power. From 1986-2001 she was a lecturer at the department for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna, and the Austrian Institute for Latin American Studies, besides realizing various research projects. In 2001 and 2002 she was visiting professor at the Gender Kolleg, University of Vienna.
Her research interests include gender relations and gender imagery in various cultural and social contexts. She has been a faculty member of the post-graduate program "Gender Kolleg" at Vienna University since 2001. She has been teaching regularly on the topic of Gender Anthropology throughout her career and has been supervisor of a series of MA and PhD thesis in Gender Anthropology.

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Maria Mesner

Date and Place of Birth: 07/23/1960, Braunau/Inn, Austria
Education
Univ. Doz. University of Vienna, Contemporary History 2004
Ph. D. University of Vienna. Modern History 1994
M. A. University of Vienna, Contemporary History 1986
Habilitation “Geburten / Kontrolle. Reproduktionspolitiken in Österreich und in den USA im 20. Jahrhundert” (Wien 2003) [Birth / Control. Reproductive Policies in Austria and in the US during the 20th century]
Dissertation "Die Auseinandersetzung um den Schwangerschaftsabbruch in Österreich. Zur politischen Kultur der Zweiten Republik” [Conflicts on Abortion in Austria]
Present Positions
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Contemporary History, University of Vienna (since 05/03/2004)
Researcher, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Vienna (since 05/15/2003, at present on leave)
Director, Bruno Kreisky Archives Foundation (since 08/01/2000)
Academic Affiliations
Visiting Research Professor: Department of History, New York University (spring 2007)
Professor: Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, Institute for Modern and Contemporary History, Johannes-Kepler-University Linz (2006/07)
Lecturer: University of Vienna, Institute for Contemporary History, since 1997, Institute for History,
since 1998; courses in contemporary history, gender studies, and comparative history
Visiting Professor: Paris-Lodron-University Salzburg, (2005)
Lecturer: Charles-University of Prague (2000).
Lecturer: University of Linz (1999/2000)
Research Fellow: New School for Social Research, New York City (1999)

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Birgit Sauer

Born in 1957 in Brackenheim/Germany, is professor of political science at the Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna. She studied political science and German literature at the University of Tübingen and at Free University of Berlin. She received her PhD in Political Science at Free University of Berlin and her habilitation at the University of Vienna. From 1987 to 2000 she was assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science, Free University of Berlin at the Institute of Sociology, University of Freiburg and at the Institute of Political Science in Vienna. She was visiting professor at Kon-Kuk-University Seoul/Korea, University of Klagenfurt, University of Mainz/Germany and at Florida Atlantic University.
Her research interests include gender and governance, comparative gender policies, state theory, and gender and globalization. She was one of the founders of the section "Gender and Politics" in the German Political Science Association and is co-editing a book series on "Politics of Gender relations". She is speaker of the post-graduate program "Gender Kolleg" at Vienna University. She is the Austrian organizer of the international Research Network on Gender, Politics and the State (RNGS).

Homepage:
www.birgitsauer.org

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Mona Singer

She is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna. Her research interests and teaching subjects are in the areas of feminist epistemology and (techno)science studies, cultural theory/studies, postcolonial theory and race critical theories.
She received an APART (Austrian Program for Advanced Research and Technology) research grant from the Austrian Academy of Science and spent three years as a Pavis Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Sociological und Anthropological Studies, Open University, Milton Keynes, and as a Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK.
She was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University, Budapest, from 2001-2005 and has taught at different Austrian and German universities. She is a Faculty member of the Center for Advanced Gender Studies (Gender Kolleg) and of the Cultural Studies program (Modul Kulturwissenschaften/ Cultural Studies) at the University of Vienna.

Homepage:
http://timaios.philo.at/emile/index.php?id=82

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