Prof. Dr. Tanja Thomas

Tanja Thomas is Professor of Media Studies with a focus on Transformations in Media Cultures at the University of Tübingen. She researches media and migration; memory culture in the media society; right-wing violence, racism and media; participation and protest in mediated public spheres. Her projects on media, migration and memory have received multiple grants from German and international research foundations (for more see www.doing-memory.de and the podcast under the same name). Currently, she leads a research project that is focused on the analysis of "immersion in far-right worldviews." Alongside this project, she curates a special issue for the journal feminist studies on the subject of Resisting, Resistiveness, and Resistance: (Queer-)Feminist Perspectives and Practices in the Face of Rising Authoritarian Policies.

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