Sylvia Herzog

Sylvia (she/they) is studying sociology at the University of Vienna, worked as a teaching assistant at the Department of Sociology from 2021 to 2024 and has been working as a research assistant in the projects 'Self-Determination of Liberal Democracy' and CIDAPE (Climate, Inequality, Democratic Action and the Force of Political Emotions) since February 2023. Sylvia's research interests lie in sociological dimensions of power/knowledge, emotions and bodies, with a queer-feminist, intersectional approach. Sylvia researches the correlation between discursive knowledge and power, and the affective inscriptions of the hierarchisation of epistemologies. Their master's thesis on the affective manifestation of un/knowing in the lesbian self focuses on precisely these intersections. Sylvia's general research focuses on power/knowledge, affect theory and interpretative methods.