Sophie Vögele

Sophie Vögele, research associate at the Institute for Art Education (IAE) at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).

With Philippe Saner she co-led the research project “Art.School.Differences. Researching Inequalities and Normativities in Higher Art Education” (bit.ly/a_s_d). Her professional and scholarly experience encompasses various positions and teaching appointments in Higher Education in the fields of postcolonial and feminist theory, critical race and migration studies, anti-discrimination and diversity as well as the decentralization of political processes in rural India. She is pursuing a PhD in Sociology from York University (Toronto) on social inequality, processes of othering, and theories of critique grounded in the field of Higher Education institutions.