Paul Lazarsfeld Professorships

The Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship, created by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna, is awarded to outstanding scholars with an innovative profile in the areas of theory and methodology in the social sciences. The guest professorship includes a workshop (or a course) in the doctoral programme of the Faculty of Social Sciences and a public lecture.

academic year 2025/26

• Prof. Anna Harris (Department of Society Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastrich University)
  class: TBA (December 2025)
  Wensday Seminar: TBA

academic year 2024/25

• Prof. Vincent Dubois (Institute for Political Studies, Universtity of Strasbourg)
  class: An introduction to critical policy sociology for social scientists (17.-26.03.2025)
  Wednesday Seminar: Surveillance and Sanctions over Recipients: A Coercive Turn in Social Welfare (26.03.2025)

former Paul Lazarsfeld Professorships

• Aditya Bharadwaj (The Graduate Institute Geneva)
  class: Anatomy of Life: Towards methodological innovation in health research (30.05.-03.06.2022)

• Dr. Cora Bender (Medienwissenschaftliches Seminar, Universität Siegen)
  class: Medienethnographie: eine Methodenwerkstatt
  Wednesday Seminar: Sovereign Health: Native North American Medical Practices in a Globalized World (16.05.2018)

• Cindy D. Clark, MA PhD (Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice, Rutgers University | Camden, USA)
  class: Child-centered Qualitative Research in Sociocultural Research (8.-12.5.2017/PDF)
  Wednesday Seminar: Two-eyed seeing: How age relativism adds to our understanding of ritual and enculturation (10.5.2017)

• Prof. Dr. Stefan Hirschauer (Institut für Soziologie, Universität Mainz, Deutschland)
  class: Ethnografisch Forschen: Designs, Fragen, Methoden (11.-15.4.2016)
  talk: Ethnografie als Forschungsstrategie und Profession zwischen den Disziplinen (12.4.2016)

• Mag. Dr. Michaela Schäuble, MA (Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Universität Bern, Schweiz)
  class: Audio-visuelle Forschungsmethoden (12.-16.10.2015)
  talk: Studying Re-enactments. Makeshift method or effective ethnographic research Approach? (14.10.2015)

• Dr. Michael Schnegg, MA (Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Hamburg, Deutschland)
  class: Einführung in die Netzwerkanalyse (30.4.-30.6.2015)
  class: Chancen und Grenzen des Vergleichs (30.4.-30.6.2015)
  talk: Comparing sites or following flows? Finding an appropriate methodology for understanding a connected world (27.5.2015)

• George Marcus, BA PhD (Department of Anthropology, University of California | Irvine, USA)
  class: The  Ethnography As Text (26.5.-30.6.2014)
  class: The Viability and Changing Conditions of Fieldwork (28.5.-25.6.2014)
  

• Dr. Judith Okely, BA MA (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, Großbritannien)
  class: Ethnographic Practice (15.5.-27.6.2013)

• Prof. Dr. Gerd Spittler (Facheinheit Ethnologie, Universität Bayreuth, Deutschland)
  class: Feldforschung als Balance zwischen wissenschaftlicher Distanz und dichter Teilnahme (14.5.-27.6.2013)