Doctoral Advisory Boards

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

The Doctoral Advisory Boards at the Faculty of Social Sciences are of particular importance for the public presentations at the Faculty and they support the speaker of the ViDSS / the Director of Studies in deciding on applications for admission to the doctoral programme in Social Sciences. 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 2024–September 2026

Communication

  • 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

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

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)

  • 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

Board I (incl. nursing science):
  • Chair: Elisabeth Scheibelhofer
  • Karl Krajic
  • Martin Nagl-Cupal 
  • Michaela Pfadenhauer
  • Anna Durnova
  • Ulrike Zartler

Board II (incl. demography):
  • Chair: Emma Dowling (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