Anna Schwenck is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck’s Department of Sociology. At Innsbruck, she is part of the research team Theory, Knowledge, Culture.

Before becoming a faculty member in Innsbruck, she conducted several research projects concerning the entanglement of culture and politics – as a junior fellow of the Forum Basiliense in Switzerland, as lead researcher in the project “African Musics and Politics” (funded by the German Research Foundation) and as postdoctoral researcher and scientific coordinator of “Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe” (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation).
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She received both her Ph.D. in Sociology and her M.A. in Social Sciences from Humboldt University Berlin. She earned a B.A. in Cultural Studies from Viadrina European University, Frankfurt (Oder). Recently, she submitted her habilitation to the University of Siegen’s Department of Social Sciences.
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As visiting scholar and student, she had the chance to get to know several institutions. These include the University of Trento’s Department of Sociology and Social Research (Italy), the Anthropology Department at the University of the Western Cape (South Africa), the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow (Russia), the University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies (United Kingdom) and the University of California at Berkeley’s  Sociology Department (United States).
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