Lecturer at the Institute for Political Science with a focus on the Middle East, Political Islam, Religion and Politics, Iraq, Kurdistan, Sudan, Anti-Semitism and Migration. In addition to the University of Vienna, Thomas Schmidinger also teaches as an associate professor at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) in Iraq and as a lecturer at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences in Linz in the field of social work. He is co-editor of the Vienna Yearbook for Kurdish Studies, Secretary General of the Austrian Society for the Promotion of Kurdology / European Center for Kurdish Studies and member of several scientific societies. His publications include: -Rojava: Revolution, War, and the Future of Syria´s Kurds London, 2018 - The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds. Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava. Oakland, 2019 - The World has forgotten us. Sinjar and the Islamic State´s Genocide of the Yezidis. London, 2022 - Embedded Research and Political Violence: Kurdish Studies in Conflict Areas in: Baser, Bahar Baser / Toivanen, Mari / Zorlu, Begum Zorlu (Hg.): Methodological Approaches in Kurdish Studies Lanham, 2019 pp. 219 – 234 - Self-Determination, Federalism and Autonomy in the Middle-East in: Akbulut, Olgun / Aktoprak, Elçin (Hg.): Minority Self-Government in Europe and the Middle East. From Theory to Practice Leiden/Boston, 2019 pp. 183 – 200 - „The World Forgot Us and Europe Doesn´t Want Us”: The Situation of Yazidi, Christian, and Babawat Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees from Sinjar after the Genocide of 2014 in: Babar, Zahra (ed.): Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East London, 2020 pp. 215 – 237 - Christians in North Syria: Syriacs, Assyrians, Armenians and Kurdish converts. in: Schmidinger, Thomas (ed.): The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. Between a Roch and a Hard Place. London, 2020 pp. 35 – 54Translations into Arabic, Turkish, Italian, Kurdish, Spanish,...
In addition to the University of Vienna, Thomas Schmidinger also teaches as an associate professor at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) in Iraq and as a lecturer at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences in Linz in the field of social work. He is co-editor of the Vienna Yearbook for Kurdish Studies, Secretary General of the Austrian Society for the Promotion of Kurdology / European Center for Kurdish Studies and member of several scientific societies.
His publications include:
-Rojava: Revolution, War, and the Future of Syria´s Kurds
London, 2018
- The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds. Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava.
Oakland, 2019
- The World has forgotten us. Sinjar and the Islamic State´s Genocide of the Yezidis.
London, 2022
- Embedded Research and Political Violence: Kurdish Studies in Conflict Areas
in: Baser, Bahar Baser / Toivanen, Mari / Zorlu, Begum Zorlu (Hg.):
Methodological Approaches in Kurdish Studies
Lanham, 2019
pp. 219 – 234
- Self-Determination, Federalism and Autonomy in the Middle-East
in: Akbulut, Olgun / Aktoprak, Elçin (Hg.): Minority Self-Government in Europe and the Middle East. From Theory to Practice
Leiden/Boston, 2019
pp. 183 – 200
- „The World Forgot Us and Europe Doesn´t Want Us”: The Situation of Yazidi, Christian, and Babawat Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees from Sinjar after the Genocide of 2014
in: Babar, Zahra (ed.): Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East
London, 2020
pp. 215 – 237
- Christians in North Syria: Syriacs, Assyrians, Armenians and Kurdish converts.
in: Schmidinger, Thomas (ed.): The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. Between a Roch and a Hard Place.
London, 2020
pp. 35 – 54Translations into Arabic, Turkish, Italian, Kurdish, Spanish,...