Fulbright Botstiber Award for Austrian American Studies

Wolfgang Aschauer (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Salzburg) will be hosted at Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He will conduct research and a teaching project titled “Living in the Shadow of Right-Wing Populism and Anti-Muslim Sentiment – Social Resilience Among Muslims in a Transatlantic Perspective”. The project’s goal is to analyze dynamics of populism and anti-muslim sentiment using major surveys. Based on this secondary analysis, this project aims for a takeover of perspective focusing mainly on the collective reactions of immigrant groups. Qualitative studies which are discussed in the US-context should be reviewed to develop a framework for a subsequent qualitative study on refugee groups in Austria.