Verena Stern
Verena Stern
Verena Stern, PhD candidate, Austria
Verena Stern is a political scientist with a focus on political sociology, protest and social movements. She is currently working on her PhD, tentatively entitled "Putting the Move in Social Movements: Protesting against Deportations and for Refugees' Right to Stay." She is particularly interested in deportations as a means to reconstruct nation-state sovereignty, in the people affected by this practice and in protests against it. Before taking up the position as Doctoral Research Fellow in Edmonton, Stern was working as a researcher on a project called "Taking Sides: Protest against the Deportation of Asylum Seekers." The study compared anti-deportation protests in Austria, Switzerland and Germany and was funded by their respective national science funds (FWF, SNF and DFG).
In 2013-2014, Stern served as the Center for Austrian Studies' BMWFW Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Additionally, Stern served as an undergraduate teaching assistant and a graduate research assistant in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna. Stern´s graduate thesis, which was later published as "Bodies That Splatter: Feministische Anrufungen, Performativität und Körper in Quentin Tarantinos Death Proof," attempted to read film politically and test it on feminist theoretical approaches, such as feminist interpellations, performativity, and the body. After receiving her degree in Political Science in Vienna, she taught an M.A. class on feminist theory at the University of Graz's Department for Gender Studies, as well as B.A. classes on political science, academic writing and Austrian and EU politics at the University of Vienna's Department of Political Science.
Contact
E-mail: vpstern@ualberta.caTelephone: 780-492-6390
Address:
University of Alberta
Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies
Suite 300 F
Arts & Convocation Hall
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2E6