Veronika Schwediauer, Mag.a

Veronika Schwediauer
MA in Political Sciences (University of Vienna), 2006

Dissertation Topic
Same Same But Different: How Sex Plays A Part in Political Recruitment. The Case of the Austrian Ministers.

Current Work
Fellow at the Vienna School of Governance, University of Vienna
Lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences, University of Vienna

Research Interests
Sex/Gender Relations, State Theories, Elite Theories

Prizes
Nachwuchspreis der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft 2006 (Prize for Young Researchers of the Austrian Society of Political Science 2006) for the diploma thesis "Holy Crusade in Iraq? The Power of Protestant Fundamentalists in the White House and the Decision to Wage War in Iraq"

Publications
Editorship: Politik begreifen. 89 Begriffe um Eva Kreiskys Leben und Forschen, together with Matthias Falter, Marion Löffler, Thomas Schmidinger, and Saskia Stachowitsch, Vienna, 2009
Zivilreligion, in: Politik begreifen. 89 Begriffe um Eva Kreiskys Leben und Forschen, edited by Matthias Falter, Marion Löffler, Thomas Schmidinger, Veronika Schwediauer, and Saskia Stachowitsch, Vienna, 2009, p. 218-221
Partizipation von NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen an österreichischen wissenschaftlichen Universitäten, Project Report, together with Mag. Thomas König and Mag. Wolfgang Eppenschwandtner, online: www.ssoar.info/ssoar/View/, Vienna, 2008
Der Kreuzzug im Irak. Christian Right und Neokonservatismus als symbiotische Herrschaftsideologien für den US-Krieg im Irak, 2006, Frankfurt a. M.

Courses Taught
State Forms: Totalitarian, Authoritarian and Democratic Regimes, Seminar, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Summer Term 2008
Austrian Politics and the European Union, Seminar, Department of Political Sciences, University of Vienna, Winter Term 2006, together with Mag. Florian Walter

Studies Abroad
Visiting Research Student at the Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, January to June 2009 (supervised by Anne Phillips)
Erasmus Exchange Semester at the Université de la Réunion, La Réunion, France, September 2003 to March 2004

Research Projects and Scientific Positions
Research Project "Participation of Young Researchers at Austrian Scientific Universities", Graduate Centre of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of  Vienna, 2008, together with Mag. Thomas König und Dr. Wolfgang Eppenschwandtner
Scientific Assistant at the Centre for Advanced Gender Studies (Gender Kolleg) at the University of Vienna, 2006

Organization of Conferences
Organization of the Conference "Gender at the Border II", Centre for Advanced Gender Studies (Gender Kolleg) at the University of Vienna, Purbach am Neusiedlersee, 2007
Organization of the Conference "Doktorat Neu Denken", Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna, 2007

Talks and Presentations at Conferences
Paper Presenter at the ECPR Graduate Conference, Barcelona, August 2008
State Forms: Totalitarian, Authoritarian and Democratic Regimes, Talk in the Lecture ‘Political Theory’, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Summer Term 2008

Contact
veronika.schwediauer@univie.ac.at