Stefanie Populorum
Stefanie Populorum is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Graz. She has established an interdisciplinary profile bridging the humanities and economics, grounded in a PhD in German Studies from Rutgers University and Master’s degrees in International Management and Business Administration with a focus on environmental management. For her dissertation on the theory of capitalism in Austrian literature and film of the interwar period she received the International Wendelin Schmid-Dengler Award from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research. She has taught for the University of Vienna, Duke University, Rutgers University, Macalester College, Linfield University, and the Vienna University for Economics and Business, a.o. Most recently she has worked on research projects on German diaspora at the University of Birmingham and Durham University. She is teaching cultural and economic history for the Vienna Programs of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For the Rivers in Crisis Project she investigates the cultural history of the Danube with a focus on ecofeminism, blue humanities, and identity studies.
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