Fulbright – University of Vienna Visiting Professorship of Social Sciences

The Fulbright – University of Vienna Visiting Professorship of Social Sciences is a flexible combination of teaching and research activities. The professorship entails teaching two courses for four months (classes meet once a week for 90 minutes) and may include advising or supervising advanced students. The award is open to faculty of all academic ranks with a PhD, appropriate teaching experience, and relevant expertise. Applicants must hold US citizenship.


Summer semester of 2024:

Robert Rohrschneider
Worcester Professor of International Politics at the University of Kansa, Fulbright – University of Vienna Visiting Professor of Social Sciences at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Government
Course: Illiberalism and Party System Changes in Europe (2024)
Workshop: Publication Strategies in the Social Sciences


Former Fulbright – University of Vienna Visiting Professors of Social Sciences:

Edward Hackett
Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
Courses: Scholarship as a Vocation: STS Perspectives, Inequality and Sustainability (2022)
Workshop: Grant Proposal Writing for Late PhDs and Early Postdocs in the Social Sciences

Daniela Dimitrova
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University
Courses: From Research Idea to Published Paper in the Social Sciences, Research Seminar A (2022)
Workshop: Journal Publishing and Peer Review in the Social Sciences

Margarethe Kusenbach
Department of Sociology, University of South Florida
Courses: Space and Place, Interpretive Methods of Social Research (2021)
Workshop: Career and CV Building through Research, Teaching and Service

Diana O’Brien
Rice University, Houston
Courses: State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses: Does It matter if women are in government?, State Activity, Policy and Governance Analyses: Women in politics in comparative perspective (2020)
Workshop: Navigating Academia (as a Woman)