Univ.-Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser

Curriculum Vitae:

1994 PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology on gender relations and counter hegemonic strategies of women in Turkey, University of Vienna
1995-1999 Scientific staff of the Interuniversity Co-ordination Center of Women´s Studies Vienna
1996-1997 Visiting Scholar at the Department of Anthropology and at the Institute of Research on Women and Gender, University of Stanford
1997-2002 Lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
1999-2002 Hertha-Firnberg Position at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund
1999-2000 Visiting Scholar, London School of Economics
2001 Visiting Scholar, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
2002-2007 Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
2004 Habilitation in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna on "Bewegte Zugehörigkeiten. Nationale Spannungen, transnationale Praktiken und transversale Politik"
2006-2008 Scientific Project Coordinator and Advanced Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Contesting Multiculturalism. Gender Equality, Cultural Diversity and Sexual Autonomy in the European Union, Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (New Orientation for Democracy)
2003-2005 Advanced Researcher and Administrative Research Coordinator, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna on: Toward A European Politics of Differentiated Equality. Theoretical Reflections on Antidiscrimination Policy of the European Union, sponsored by Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (New Orientation for Democracy)
2007-2011 Senior Researcher in the project "FEMCIT – Gender and citizenship in a multicultural context, the Impact of Contemporary Women’s Movements" under the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme at the University of Vienna
2007-2011 Associate Professor, Graduate Program of Social Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
since 2009 Faculty member of the Gender Initiative Graduate Program: Gender, Violence and Agency in the Era of Globalization, University of Vienna
since 2010 Peer reviewer for the European Research Council
since May 2011 Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna

Research Areas:

* Migration studies: integration, transnational studies, multiculturalism, identity and intersectionality, social and religious movements, citizenship, globalization
* Feminist Anthropology: power relations and counter hegemonic strategies, cultural diversity, gender equality, sexual autonomy, forced marriage
* Religious studies: Islam in Turkey and Europe
* Regional interests: Turkey, Europe, Caucasus