RAHEL SÜß
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Employment | Academic Position
London School of Economics (LSE), 3/2022 - 8/2022
Visiting Researcher (post-doc)
Government Department (sponsor Lea Ypi)
Humboldt-University of Berlin, 2/2022 - 1/2024
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Social Science, Theory of Politics
King's College London, 9/2021 - 1/2022
Visiting Researcher (post-doc)
Department of Digital Humanities (sponsor Paolo Gerbaudo)
Humboldt-University of Berlin, 2/2021-
Founding Director of the Data Politics Lab
Department of Social Science, Theory of Politics
University of Vienna, 2015-2021
Lecturer (teaching) in Political Theory (postgraduate and undergraduate level); the history of political ideas, democratic theory, digital politics and social movements
Humboldt-University of Berlin, 4-7/2020
Fellowship
Centre for Humanities and Social Change
Goldsmiths University of London, 1-6/2020
Visiting Researcher (PhD)
Department of Politics and International Relations (sponsor Will Davies)
Duke University, North Carolina, 8-12/2019
Visiting Researcher (PhD)
Social Movements Lab, Franklin Humanities Institute (sponsor Michael Hardt)
Queen Mary University of London, 7/2018 - 7/2019
Visiting Researcher (PhD)
School of Politics and International Relations (sponsor Lasse Thomassen)
University of Westminster, London, 1/2017 - 6/2018
Visiting Researcher (PhD)
Centre for the Studies of Democracy (sponsor Chantal Mouffe)
Education
PhD in Political Science, University of Vienna, with honours, Spring 2020
Thesis: “Provoked Democracy: Towards a Radical Democratic Theory of Experimental Action”. (Advisor: Oliver Marchart)
MA in Political Science, University of Vienna & Charles University, Prague, with honours, Summer 2014
Thesis: "Collective Agency: Gramsci, Holzkamp, Laclau/Mouffe". (Advisor: Ulrich Brand)
BA in Political Science, University of Vienna, with honours, Spring 2012
Grands, Fellowships and Awards
- 2022-24 | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2021-2022 | ÖAW Post-DocTrack Fellowship
- 2020 | Humanities & Social Change International Foundation Fellowship
- 2019 | University of Vienna Dissertation Fellowship
- 2017-2018 | OeAD Marietta Blau Dissertation Fellowship
- 2018 | University of Uppsala, Uppsala Forum Workshop-Grant
- 2015-2018 | Rosa Luxemburg-Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
- 2013-2014 | Rosa Luxemburg-Foundation Scholarship for postgraduate studies
- 2013, 2014 & 2016 | University of Vienna, Accomplishment Award
Publication
Full list of publications here.
Editor & Reviewer
Founder and Editorial Board Member, engagée Journal
Polity Press, Routledge, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol)
Invited Talks
Full list of invited talks here.
Teaching
University of Vienna, Department of Political Science
- 2021 | The Politics of the Future: Technology, Democracy and Resistance
- 2020 | Power and Resistance in the Digital Constellation
- 2019 | Digital Protest and the Political
- 2016 – 2020 | The History of Political Ideas (20S, 19W, 18W, 18S, 17W, 17S, 16W)
- 2018 | Radical Democracy and Municipal Movements
- 2016 | Methods of Political Science
- 2015 | Introduction to International Politics
Photographs
© 2021 Rahel Süß