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Maria Sagmeister is a Research Fellow at the University of Vienna's research platform GAIN (Gender: Ambivalent In_Visibilities), specializing in gender theory across law and art history. She holds a doctoral degree in legal philosophy and is pursuing habilitation on labor law regulation of domestic care work. Her research focuses on the commodification of care labor, migration-related legal precarity, and strategies to visualize marginalized realities through art and law.
Education: PhD in Law (2020, University of Vienna), Diploma in Art History (portrait photography and queer representation). Awards include the Theodor Körner Prize and Vienna Legal Society Prize for her dissertation on gender-equal labor distribution.
Recent research emphasizes pandemic impacts on migrant domestic workers, European care worker employment frameworks, and gender-equitable legal language. She contributes to juridikum and is an Ars Iuris Fellow.
Her interdisciplinary work bridges legal scholarship, art-historical critique, and policy analysis to address structural inequalities in care economies and marginalized communities.
