Monika Mokre: the newest member of the VICESSE Team

We are proud to welcome Monika Mokre to the team, who will be joining VICESSE as a research fellow. Monika’s research topics include: Democracy and Democratic Theory, Asylum and Migration, Prison and Societal Exclusion, Cultural Politics, and Gender studies.

Biography

Studies of Political Science and Communication Research at the University of Vienna. Since 1991 research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), since 2009 senior researcher at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of OeAW; lecturer at the Institute for Cultural Management and Cultural Studies at the University for Music and Performing Arts, in the program “Cross-Disciplinary Strategies. Applied Studies in Art, Science, Philosophy, and Global Challenges” at the University of Applied Arts, and at Webster University Vienna; member of the Executive Committee of ROR-n, Refugee Outreach & Research Network chairwoman of eipcp, european institute for progressive cultural policies; member of the editorial team of wahlkabine.at; member of the Center for Research on Democracy and Law, Department of International and European Studies, Thessaloniki; chairwoman of the Works Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; member of the solidarity group for an Austrian prisoners union. Political activist in the fields of asylum, migration and prison.