Viola Dombrowski

Viola Dombrowski serves as a Scientific Associate at the Department of Education, Institute for Education, University of Koblenz, with office K219. Her work centers on Adult Education and Gender Studies, focusing on critical sociological analyses of contemporary political movements and societal crises.

Education:

• PhD candidate at University of Koblenz (expected 2024) with dissertation: People or Enemy? On Right-Wing Self-Assurance Processes and the Construction of Otherness

Research Focus: Dombrowski specializes in Gender Sociology and Political Sociology through qualitative-reconstructive methodologies, particularly discourse analysis. Her work dissects right-wing populist strategies in gender politics, femonationalism, and anti-gender movements while examining societal responses to crises like the Corona pandemic. She critically analyzes how discourses around family structures, abortion, and public health reflect deeper power dynamics and ideological conflicts.

Publication Trends: Her scholarly output (2018-2021) reveals consistent engagement with the intersection of gender, populism, and crisis communication. She methodically documents how right-wing movements instrumentalize gender issues while simultaneously analyzing pandemic-related discourse through mixed-methodological frameworks. Her reviews of cultural phenomena—from hip-hop to pagan metal—demonstrate interdisciplinary reach in examining religion’s role in subcultural expressions.

Professional Engagement:

• Active member of German Sociological Society (DGS) and European Sociological Association (ESA)
• Coordinator of Gender Studies Certificate Program (2024-2025)
• Former Senate Committee member on Equal Opportunities (2020-2022)
• Organizer of high-impact events including the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage panel featuring state ministers

Collaborative Research: Leads interdisciplinary teams studying German public discourse during the pandemic, merging computational social science with qualitative analysis to track evolving narratives across online newspapers and Twitter from 2019-2020.