Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Anna Pospech Durnova, Ph.D.

Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Vienna and Faculty Fellow at the Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology. She completed her habilitation at Sciences Po Paris. She is a member of the editorial board of the journals Policy & Politics and Critical Policy Studies. Her research focuses on the role of emotions in democratic societies, and she currently coordinates the international Horizon Europe project CIDAPE and the ERC Advanced Grant LONERS. Her publications include The Politics of Intimacy (2018) and Understanding Emotions in Post-Factual Politics (2019). In 2024, she was awarded the Mattei Dogan Foundation Prize for European Political Sociology.

Research interests: political sociology, sociology of emotions, public policy, feminist sociology, interpretive social research.