Fellows at IHS
The institute collaborates with a number of researchers across Europe, many of whom are associated as fellows.
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Anna Durnova is a Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna and holds the „Habilitation à diriger des recherches“ diploma from SciencesPO in Paris. Until 2021, she worked as a senior researcher at the IHS in Vienna and is now Senior Fellow associated with IHS.
Her research focuses on emotions as a nexus for studying social regulations and their institutions. The main interest of this work is to understand multiple tensions between citizens and institutions within current social and political controversies. She is a Faculty Fellow at the Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology.
She also holds a number of advisory and coordination positions in the international professional association of sociologists and political scientists; among them Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Policy & Politics and the vice-President of the International Public Policy Association.
Based most of her career in Vienna, she also was a researcher at Charles University in Prague and a Visiting researcher at Concordia University in 2019. Between 2009 and 2010 she was a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Lyon.
She occasionally contributes to public debates on democracy, post-truth, emotions, or Austrian politics & society in Czech Television , Czech Broadcast, and writes op-eds for the Czech daily newspaper Hospodářské Noviny.
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