About the CST

Anna Durnova

Anna Durnova is a professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the Yale University Center for Cultural Sociology. She serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Policy & Politics and vice president of the International Public Policy Association. Previously, she was a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna (Elise Richter Fellow), as well as at Charles University in Prague and the University of Lyon. Numerous international stays, including Visiting Research Fellow at Concordia University in Montreal (2019) or Essex University in the UK (2012). Her last books are Understanding Emotions in Post-Factual Politics and The Politics of Intimacy.

Her research interests are political sociology, sociology of emotions, public policy, feminist sociology, women's health and sociology of the body, and interpretive social research.