Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sabine Grenz (Priv.-Doz.)

Ass.-Prof. for interdisciplinary Gender Studies

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Since 2020 Sabine Grenz is Ass.-Prof. for Gender Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy and Education as well as the Faculty of Social Sciences. Additionally, Sabine Grenz is Assoc. Prof. (Priv.-Doz.) for Gender Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2017-2020, she was Univ.-Prof. for Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. From 2015-17, she was Acting Prof. for Diversity Research at the University of Göttingen (2015-17).

Office hours:
Due to Covid-19 all office hours are held via telephone or video conference. For appointments, please, contact Patricia Stuhr (patricia.stuhr@univie.ac.at).

Note for students: 

If you are interested in MA examination, Prof. Grenz expects prior knowledge of gender studies and recommends attending courses from Prof. Grenz. 

Students, interested in scientific/academic internships are always welcome. Please, contact Patricia Stuhr (patricia.stuhr@univie.ac.at) for further inquiries and an appointment.

Office:

Department of Education
Sensengasse 3a
2nd floor, room 02.08
A-1090 Wien

phone: +43 1 4277 46715
mobile: +43 664 60277 46715

email: sabine.grenz@univie.ac.at

 

Consultation hours:
to be arranged in advance through Patricia Stuhr (secretary) via E-Mail: patricia.stuhr@univie.ac.at
There are no consultation hours during lecture-free.

Courses taught at the University of Vienna

Publications, activities: u:cris

Teaching co-operations at the University of Vienna

This interdisciplinary professorship is assigned to the following three faculties: Faculty for Social Sciences, Philosophy and Education, Philological and Cultural Studies

Research interests

  • Qualitative empirical methodology (especially discourse analysis)
  • Gender methodology and epistemology
  • Gender, diversity and intersectionalit
  • Gender, secularism and religion
  • Gender and sexuality/sexualities (especially in connection with commercial sexuality)
  • Historical perspectives on gender constructions
  • Institutionalisation and history of Gender Studies

Current academic positions

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Recent Publications

Annette Henninger, Denise Bergold- Caldwell, Sabine Grenz, Barbara Grubner, Helga Krüger-Kirn, Susanne Maurer, Marion Näser-Lather, Sandra Beaufaÿs (Hrsg.), 2021, Mobilisierungen gegen Feminismus und ‚Gender‘. Erscheinungsformen, Erklärungsansätze und Gegenstrategien, GENDER. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, Sonderheft 6
Download in open access:
https://shop.budrich.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/9783847417293.pdf

Annette Henninger, Denise Bergold- Caldwell, Sabine Grenz, Barbara Grubner, Helga Krüger-Kirn, Susanne Maurer, Marion Näser-Lather, 2021, "Mobilisierungen gegen Feminismus und ‚Gender‘. Erscheinungsformen, Erklärungsansätze und Gegenstrategien“, in GENDER. Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, Sonderheft 6, S. 9-24

Bibliographie: En, Boka/Grenz, Sabine, 2021: Beate Kortendiek/Birgit Riegraf/Katja Sabisch (Hrsg.), 2019: Handbuch Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 1556 Seiten. 149,99 Euro" [Buchrezension]. GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 21 (1), S. 157–159.
Online: Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft (budrich-journals.de)

Benthaus-Apel, Friederike/Grenz, Sabine/Bücker, Nicola/Eufinger, Veronika/ Schöll, Albrecht, 2017, Wechselwirkungen: Geschlecht, Religiosität und Lebenssinn. Qualitative und quantitative Analysen anhand von lebensgeschichtlichen Interviews und Umfragen, Münster: Waxmann

Publications (pdf)

Supervision
Completed PhD dissertations

  • Gayani Mitra, "Risks and disruptions during commercial surrogacy in India", University of Göttingen (second supervisor)
  • Ráhel K. Turai, "Shifting Gender in Desire. Narratives of bisexually changing attraction, practice, and subjectivity in present-day Hungary", CEU Budapest (3-month research stay, Humboldt University Berlin)

Ongoing PhD dissertations

  • Dominique Bauer:"Time to Step it Up for Gender Equality": Geschlechter*verhältnisse in der islambezogenen Lehre an Universitäten im deutschsprachigen Raum.
  • Boka En, "Means for changing the world: Queer feminist activists, academics, and knowing/ acting”, co-supervision with Ulrike Felt, University of Vienna
  • Kris Vera Hartmann, "Zwischen Emanzipation und Optimierung. Hormonelle Verhütung im Spannungsfeld von Wissen, Körper und Geschlecht", University of Göttingen (second supervisor)
  • Jana Lou Herbst, Aus Fehlern (ver)lernen: "Das (Un)Mögliche – diversitätsorientierte und diskriminierungssensible Organisationspraxis. Eine Analyse und Vergleich von zwei Organisationen"
  • Neda Hodaei, "Beyond the Veiled Women: An Exploration of Embodiment During Labour and Birth Amongst Middle Eastern Women in German Context", Humboldt University Berlin (first supervisor)
  • Ksenia Meshkova, "Intimate Partner Violence in Modern Russia", Humboldt University Berlin (first supervisor)
  • Eva Schwarz, "Gaps in der klassischen Musiklandschaft – Werdegänge von Orchestermusiker_innen in Österreich aus intersektionaler Perspektive", co-supervision with Doris Ingrisch, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

u:cris - publications Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sabine Grenz

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Geschlechtersoziologie. / Grenz, Sabine; Tolasch, Eva; Buschmeyer, Anna et al.
1. ed. Paderborn: Brill Ferdinand Schöningh, 2025. (Soziologie im 21. Jahrhundert).

Publications: Book

Geschlecht methodologisch: „Wissen ist Macht!“. / Grenz, Sabine; Gül, Elif.
Geschlechtersoziologie. ed. / Eva Tolasch; Anna Buschmeyer; Sabine Grenz; Carolin Küppers. 1. ed. Paderborn: Brill Ferdinand Schöningh, 2025. (Soziologie im 21. Jahrhundert).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter

Editorial: The Complex Intricacies of Gender, Secularities and Religiosities: Exploring Entanglements, Borders and Struggles in Knowledge Production, Activism and Everyday Life. / Grenz, Sabine; Liinason, Mia.
In: Religion and Gender, Vol. 15, 2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Editorial › Peer Reviewed

‘I Don’t Know If You Have Experience with Meditation?’: Intersectionally Gendered Power Relations in Post-secular Research. / Grenz, Sabine.
In: Religion & Gender, 2025.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

The complex intricacies of gender, secularities and religiosities: Exploring entanglements, borders and struggles in knowledge production, activism and everyday life (forthcoming). / Grenz, Sabine (Editor); Liinason, Mia (Editor).
Brill Ferdinand Schöningh, 2025. 90 p.

Publications: Book › Special Issue › Peer Reviewed

Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production. / Grenz, Sabine (Editor); Guth, Doris (Editor); En, Boka (Editor) et al.
Sternberg Press, 2024. 168 p.

Publications: Book › Collection › Peer Reviewed

Gender, secularities and religiosities: Entanglements and power struggles in knowledge production, activism and everyday life. / Grenz, Sabine; Hanitzsch, Konstanze; Huygens, Eilene et al.
Gender and Postsecularity in Knowledge Production and Popular Culture. ed. / Sabine Grenz; Doris Guth; Boka En; Fatma Uysal. London: Sternberg Press, 2024.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Integration durch Wertevermittlung? Zur demokratietheoretischen Bedeutung von Werten und Wertebildung. / Grenz, Sabine; Grubner, Barbara; Lengauer, Monika.
Opladen: Barbara Budrich, 2024. 320 p.

Publications: Book › Peer Reviewed

Introduction. / Grenz, Sabine; Guth, Doris.
Gender and Postsecularity in Knowledge Production and Popular Culture. ed. / Sabine Grenz; Doris Guth; Boka En; Fatima Uysal. Sternberg Press, 2024. p. 9-19.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

Religion, Spirituality, and Gender beyond Dichotomies. / Grenz, Sabine; Liinason, Mia; van den Brandt , Nella et al.
Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production. Sternberg Press, 2024. p. 121-156.

Publications: Contribution to book › Contribution to proceedings › Peer Reviewed

Post-Secular Feminist Research: The Concept of “Lived” Religion and Double Critique. / Grenz, Sabine.
Transformation of Religion: interdisciplinary perspectives. ed. / Christian Danz; Jakob Deibl. Paderborn: Brill Ferdinand Schöningh, 2023. p. 87-109 (Religion and Transformation in Contemporary European Society, Vol. 25).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Counterstrategies against Antifeminism: Academia meets Practice. / Grenz, Sabine; Näser-Lather, Marion; Beck, Dorothee.
In: Berliner Blätter, Vol. 88, 16.02.2023, p. 117-133.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Differenzierung oder Fortsetzung unter anderen Vorzeichen? Formen von Geschlecht und Gewalt bei Elfriede Jelinek aus aktuellen Perspektiven. / Brucher, Rosemarie; Grenz, Sabine; Krammer, Stefan.
Geschlecht & Gewalt: Künstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Perspektiven. ed. / Andrea Heinz. Praesens Verlag, 2023. (Diskurse, Kontexte, Impulse: Publikationen des Elfriede Jelinek-Forschungszentrums, Vol. 25).

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Gender Studies, academic purity and political relevance. / Grenz, Sabine.
Difficult Conversation: A Feminist Dialogue. ed. / Roisin Ryan Flood; Isabel Crowhurst; Laurie James-Hawkins. 1. ed. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2023.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter › Peer Reviewed

Post-secular Feminist Research: The Concept of “Lived” Religion and Double Critique. / Grenz, Sabine.
In: Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, Vol. 97, No. 1, 2023, p. 1-24.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Handbuch Intersektionalitätsforschung. / Biele Mefebue, Astrid (Editor); Bührmann, Andrea (Editor); Grenz, Sabine (Editor) et al.
1 ed. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, Wiesbaden, 2022. 609 p.

Publications: Book › Collection › Peer Reviewed

Roundtable on the impact of COVID and Open Access on Gender Studies Journal. / Peto, Andrea; Gillis, Stacy; Grenz, Sabine et al.
In: European Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 29, No. Suppl.1, 06.2022, p. 168S-177S.

Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Differenzierung oder Fortsetzung unter anderen Vorzeichen? Formen von Geschlecht und Gewalt bei Elfriede Jelinek aus aktuellen Perspektiven. Brucher, Rosemarie (Editorial Journalist); Grenz, Sabine (Editorial Journalist); Krammer, Stefan (Editorial Journalist). 2022.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Web publication

Interview mit Grenz über Geschlechterrealität anläßlich des Frauentages am 8.3. im ORF 1 - ZIB Nacht. Grenz, Sabine (Interviewee). 2022.

Publications: Electronic/multimedia output › Radio show

Die Formierung des intersektionalen (Forschungs-)Feldes: Eine Skizze in kartografischer Absicht. / Grenz, Sabine; Biele Mefebue, Astrid; Bührmann, Andrea Dorothea.
Handbuch Intersektionalitätsforschung. ed. / Sabine Grenz; Astrid Biele Mefebue; Andrea Bührmann. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2022. p. 1-15.

Publications: Contribution to book › Chapter

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