Doctoral advisory boards

Doctoral advisory boards advise the Studienpräses, the relevant directorates of studies, the doctoral candidates and the supervisors.

The doctoral advisory boards are of particular importance for the public presentations at the Faculty. Moreover, the doctoral advisory boards support the speaker of the ViDSS/the director of studies in deciding on applications for admission to the doctoral programme and to the ViDSS. A doctoral advisory board is responsible for one or several field/s of doctoral research or a larger sub-field of a field of doctoral research in a curriculum. The official appointment procedure for members to advisory boards is specified in the Statutes of the University of Vienna.


October 2022–September 2024

Communication

Doctoral advisory board:
  • Chair: Sophie Lecheler (Speaker of the ViDSS, Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee, Director of Studies)
  • Florian Arendt
  • Folker Hanusch
  • Friedrich Hausjell
  • Jörg Matthes
  • Katharine Sarikakis
  • Annie Waldherr
  • Claudia Wilhelm

Political science

Doctoral advisory board I:
  • Chair: Alice Vadrot
  • Ulrich Brand
  • Heinz Gärtner
  • Dirk Lange
  • Karin Liebhart
  • Oliver Marchart
  • Patrick Müller
Doctoral advisory board II:
  • Chair: Sylvia Kritzinger
  • Thomas Meyer (Deputy Speaker of the ViDSS, Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee, Deputy Director of Studies)
  • Wolfgang Claudius Müller
  • Carolina Plescia
  • Markus Wagner
  • Christopher Wratil
Doctoral advisory board III:
  • Chair: Barbara Prainsack
  • Dorothee Bohle
  • Gerda Falkner
  • Kathrina T. Paul
  • Peter Slominski
  • Gregor Fabio Wolkenstein (Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee)

Social and cultural anthropology (incl. development studies)

Doctoral advisory board:
  • Chair: Tatjana Thelen (Substitute Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee)
  • Ayse Caglar (Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee)
  • Marie-France Chevron
  • Petra Dannecker
  • Janina Meillan-Kehr
  • Peter Schweitzer
  • Cornelia Staritz (Deputy Speaker of the ViDSS, Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee, Deputy Director of Studies)

Sociology (incl. demography, nursing science and science and technology studies)

Doctoral advisory board I:
  • Chair: Emma Dowling (Deputy Speaker of the ViDSS, Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee, Deputy Director of Studies)
  • Valeria Bordone
  • Roswitha Breckner
  • Franz Kolland
  • Karl Krajic
  • Martin Nagl-Cupal
  • Michaela Pfadenhauer
  • Anna Pospech Durnova
Doctoral advisory board II:
  • Chair: Eva Beaujouan (Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee)
  • Sarah Davies (Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee)
  • Ulrike Felt
  • Yuri Albert Kyrill Kazepov
  • Nadia Steiber
  • Ulrike Zartler

October 2024–September 2026

Communication

Doctoral advisory board:
  • Chair: Claudia Wilhelm (Deputy Speaker of the ViDSS, Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee, Deputy Director of Studies)
  • Florian Arendt
  • Folker Hanusch
  • Friedrich Hausjell
  • Sophie Lecheler
  • Jörg Matthes
  • Katharine Sarikakis
  • Desiree Schmuck
  • Annie Waldherr

Political science

Doctoral advisory board I (international relations, political theory and gender politics):
  • Chair: Gregor Fabio Wolkenstein (Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee)
  • Ulrich Brand
  • Heinz Gärtner
  • Dirk Lange
  • Karin Liebhart
  • Oliver Marchart
  • Patrick Müller
  • Alice Vadrot

Doctoral advisory board II (comparative politics, Austrian politics and EU):
  • Chair: Thomas Meyer (Speaker of the ViDSS, Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee, Director of Studies)
  • Dorothee Bohle
  • Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik
  • Sylvia Kritzinger
  • Katharina Theresa Paul
  • Carolina Plescia
  • Barbara Prainsack
  • Peter Slominski
  • Christopher Wratil
  • Markus Wagner

Social and cultural anthropology (incl. development studies and science and technology studies)

Doctoral advisory board:
  • Chair: Tatjana Thelen (Deputy Speaker of the ViDSS, Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee, Deputy Director of Studies)
  • Marie-France Chevron
  • Manuela Ciotti
  • Sarah Davies (Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee)
  • Janina Meillan-Kehr
  • Peter Schweitzer
  • Cornelia Staritz (Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee)
  • Sanderien Verstappen

Sociology (incl. demography and nursing science)

Doctoral advisory board I:
  • Chair: Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
  • Karl Krajic
  • Martin Nagl-Cupal 
  • Michaela Pfadenhauer
  • Anna Durnova
  • Ulrike Zartler

Doctoral advisory board II:
  • Chair: Caroline Berghammer (Deputy Speaker of the ViDSS, Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee, Deputy Director of Studies)
  • Valeria Bordone
  • Eva Beaujouan (Member of the ViDSS Steering Committee)
  • Yuri Albert Kyrill Kazepov
  • Franz Kolland
  • Erich Striessnig