Kristina Stoeckl > academic curriculum

Starting with March 2012, Kristina Stoeckl has staken up a 3-year Habilitations-fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences [APART - Austrian Program for Advanced Research and Technology] at the University of Vienna, Department of Political Sciences. Her project is entitled "Orthodox Christianity and Politics: multiple secularism, liberal norms and traditional religions". During her fellowship, she collaborates with the research group INEX - The Politics of Inclusion & Exclusion, with the research platform "Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society" and the IWM - Institute for Human Sciences. From March 2012 until February 2013, she is a visiting fellow at the research-project ReligioWest at the Robert Schuman Center of the European University Institute in Florence.

From October 2009 until February 2012, Kristina Stoeckl has held a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where she has conducting research on the human rights debate in the Russian Orthodox Church. At Tor Vergata, she became a founding-member of the Centre for the Study and Documentation of Religions and Political Institutions in Secular Society and continues to collaborate with this center up until today.

From 2007 until 2009, she worked at the University of Innsbruck as coordinator of the research-platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” and taught courses in political theory at the Political Science Department and at the Department of Systematic Theology.

Kristina Stoeckl obtained her PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute Florence in September 2007. Her dissertation won publication awards from the Austrian Science Community and the Otto-Seibert Foundation at the University of Innsbruck and was published in the series “Erfurt Studies in the Cultural History of Orthodox Christianity” in 2008. She graduated in Comparative Literature and Russian Studies at the University of Innsbruck (2001) and obtained an MA in International Relations and European Studies from the Central European University in Budapest (2003). From 2001 until 2003, she took part in a doctoral support programme “Ost-West-Kolleg” at the University of Bochum.

Kristina Stoeckl was born and grew up in Austria, and she received the last two years of her school-education at the United World College of the Adriatic (Duino, Italy). She has travelled widely in Eastern and Central Europe and has spent extended periods of time in Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.