·Rahel Süß

 

 

 

 

Contact

 

E-Mail: contact@rahel-suess.com

Twitter: @RahelSuess

Instagram: @rahel_suess

 

 

 

CV

Academic Positions

 

The New Institute, Hamburg, 10/2022 - 9/2024

Postdoctoral Fellow

The Future of Democracy Program

 

 

 

Humboldt-University of Berlin, 2/2022 - 1/2024

Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Social Science, Theory of Politics (Christian Volk)

 

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 3-8/2022

Alexander von Humboldt Postdooctoral Visiting Scholar

Government Department (sponsor Lea Ypi)

 

Humboldt-University of Berlin, 2/2021-8/2022

Founding Director of the Data Politics Lab

Department of Social Science, Theory of Politics

 

King's College London, 9/2021 - 1/2022

Visiting Scholar

Department of Digital Humanities (sponsor Paolo Gerbaudo)

 

University of Vienna, 2015-2021

Lecturer (teaching) in Political Theory (postgraduate and undergraduate level); the history of political ideas, democratic theory, digital democracy and emancipatory politics

 

Humboldt-University of Berlin, 4-7/2020

Research Fellow

Center for Humanities and Social Change, Department of Philosophy (Rahel Jaeggi)

 

Goldsmiths University of London, 1-6/2020

Visiting Scholar

Department of Politics and International Relations (sponsor William Davies)

 

Duke University, North Carolina, 8-12/2019

Visiting Scholar

Franklin Humanities Institute & Literature Program (sponsor Michael Hardt)

 

Queen Mary University of London, 7/2018 - 6/2019

Visiting Scholar

School of Politics and International Relations (sponsor Lasse Thomassen)

 

University of Westminster, London, 1/2017 - 6/2018

Visiting Scholar

Centre for the Studies of Democracy (sponsor Chantal Mouffe & Paulina Tambanaki)

 

 

Education

 

PhD in Political Science (Distinction), University of Vienna, Spring 2020

Thesis: “Provoked Democracy: Towards a Radical Democratic Theory of Experimental Action”. (Advisor: Oliver Marchart)

 

MA in Political Science (Distinction), University of Vienna & Charles University, Prague, Summer 2014

Thesis: "Collective Agency: Gramsci, Holzkamp, Laclau/Mouffe". (Advisor: Ulrich Brand)

 

BA in Political Science (Distinction), University of Vienna,  Spring 2012

 

 

Grands, Fellowships and Awards

 

• 3-8/2022 | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Visiting-research grant for the London School of Economics and Political Science
• 2022-24 | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 2021-2022 |The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) Post-DocTrack Fellowship
• 2020 | Humanities & Social Change International Foundation Fellowship
• 2019 | University of Vienna Dissertation Fellowship
• 2017-2018 | Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD) Marietta Blau Dissertation Fellowship
• 2018 | University of Uppsala, Uppsala Forum Workshop-Grant
• 2015-2018 | Rosa Luxemburg-Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
• 2013-2014 | Rosa Luxemburg-Foundation Scholarship for postgraduate studies
• 2013, 2014 & 2016 | University of Vienna, Accomplishment Award

 

 

Editor & Reviewer

Founder and Editorial Board Member, engagée Journal

Reviewer: Polity Press, Routledge, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (ZPol), Philosophy & Social Criticism, Constellations, and Democratic Theory.

 

 

Teaching

 

University of Vienna

• 2022 | What is digital democracy?
• 2021 | The Politics of the Future: Technology, Democracy and Resistance
• 2020 | Power and Resistance in the Digital Constellation
• 2019 | Digital Protest and the Political
• 2016 – 2020 | The History of Political Ideas (20S, 19W, 18W, 18S, 17W, 17S, 16W)
• 2018 | Radical Democracy and Municipal Movements
• 2016 | Methods of Political Science
• 2015 | Introduction to International Politics

 

Photo: Olivier Pol Michel |www.moi-toi.de