Visiting Scholars

Tabea Wullschleger, MA
Visiting scholar at CGI / Department of History and European Ethnology, 9.1.-30.6.2023
Research project:
"The management staff of the civilian-run camps and homes for refugees in Switzerland (1940-1949)"
Research focus:
Swiss history; camp research; biographical research; gender history
University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52d | Room 40731, A-6020 Innsbruck
Tabea Wullschleger is currently working on her dissertation project "The management staff of the civilian-run camps and homes for refugees in Switzerland (1940-1949)" (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erik Petry) at the Basel Graduate School of History (BGSH).
She studied History and German Philology at the University of Basel from 2014 to 2019. In 2017, she also completed a semester of the Master's programme in Global and Comparative History at the University of Warwick. From April 2021 to March 2022 she was a BGSH start-up scholarship holder and from April to August 2022 a doctoral fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Since September 2022, her project has been funded by the Doc.CH programme of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Within the framework of this funding, the guest residency will take place at the CGI and the Institute of Historical Sciences and European Ethnology at the University of Innsbruck.

Novella Benedetti, MA
Visiting scholar at CGI, 14.3.2022-31.12.2023
Research project:
"Language and gender-based violence in Italy (2015-2019):
A proposal of a linguistic index as to threat assessment"
Research focus:
Forensic linguistics, corpus linguistics, pragmal linguistics, language and gender, violence and gender
University of Innsbruck, Karl-Schönherr-Straße 3 | Room 16, A-6020 Innsbruck
Novella Benedetti graduated in Translation and Interpreting (Italian, English and Spanish) from the University of Trieste and Euskal Herriko. Her thesis entitled "A century of migration flows from Trentino to Argentina: a sociolinguistic analysis" was carried out between Italy and Argentina and was awarded by the Historical Museum of Trento. She then worked for about 10 years with various NGOs in Italy, Germany, Costa Rica and Chile. In the meantime, she has completed a Master's degree in marketing and fundraising for NGOs, as well as advanced training in leadership coaching and journalism. Currently, Novella Benedetti is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the Italian Chamber of Journalists and works as a freelance language specialist in Italian, English, Spanish and German.
Since 2020, she has been a PhD student at the Universitat de Vic/Universitat Central de Catalunya, focusing her research on forensic linguistics, especially on the analysis of verbal violence against women.
Novella Benedetti has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Innsbruck since March 2022.
Former visiting scholars

Ana Maria Miranda Mora, Dr.in
Visiting scholar at am CGI, 01.4.2022-31.12.2022
Research project:
"Feminist struggles against gender-based violence. Queer and Postcolonial Strategies for Engaging with the Law"
Research focus:
Care work and global care chains, sexualised violence and feminicide, feminist rage, feminist legal theory, post- and decolonial feminism, political and social philosophy, German philosophy
University of Innsbruck, Karl-Schönherr-Straße 3 | Room 16, A-6020 Innsbruck
Ana María Miranda Mora holds a PhD in Philosophy (2021) from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City. She is currently a DAAD postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in "Gender and Queer Studies" at the Alice Salomon Hochschule in Berlin; "Feminist Philosophy" at the Justus Liebig University Giessen and "Feminist Theory" at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich in Germany. She is also co-coordinator of the graduate programme "Feminisms of the Global South: decolonial and postcolonial perspectives" in the Postgraduate Programme in Gender Studies at UNAM in Mexico City.
Ana studied political philosophy and feminism in Mexico City, Madrid, Bochum and Berlin. She has taught at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at UNAM and at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City. Ana has completed research stays at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, the Hegel Archive (Bochum) and the Walter Benjamin Archive (Berlin). Her projects and research stays have been funded by CONACYT, DAAD and the Research Centre for Classical German Philosophy.