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Sejal Schmelzer is a Research Fellow at the University of Hildesheim’s DFG Research Training Group “Aesthetic Practice” (since October 2021). She is completing her PhD in cultural-aesthetic education at the University of Tübingen, supported by a Rosa Luxemburg Foundation scholarship (since 2021). Her research focuses on the intersection of aesthetics, belonging, and postcolonial theory. She has held teaching roles at universities including Tübingen, Würzburg, and Chemnitz since 2019/20, alongside research stays at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (2021-2022).
Education: Doctoral candidate in cultural-aesthetic education (University of Tübingen). Previous roles include a research assistantship at Tübingen’s Institute of Educational Science (2019/20) and Junior Fellow in the Civis international network on belonging (2019/20-2020).
Research emphasizes how aesthetics mediates social belonging through practices of recognition and exclusion. Key themes include decolonial studies, visual sociology, and interdisciplinary methodologies. Publications explore postcolonial theory as a transdisciplinary lens and the visual dimensions of belonging.
- Awards: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation PhD Scholarship
- Memberships: German Society for Aesthetics, German Society for Educational Science (Commissions on Educational Philosophy and Intercultural Education), Association for Cultural Studies (ACS), FG Dekolonial e.V., Connecticut-Baden-Württemberg Human Rights Research Consortium
Teaching and research activities include workshops on transdisciplinary education (Goethe University Frankfurt, 2021) and lectures at international conferences (e.g., Federal University of Minas Gerais, 2022).
