FRANZISKA STRACK portrait
  • Assistant Professor, Political Science Department

Research Summary

I am a political theorist with interests in political ecology, the environmental humanities, feminism and decolonialism, art and media, and time. I use theory to describe the involvement of sensing human bodies and more-than-human environments in political events. Currently, I examine the role of audible and inaudible sounds in political practices and the history of political theory. I also address the relationship between shifts in acoustic fields and climate change.

Biography

I received my PhD in political theory from Johns Hopkins University. Afterwards, I completed a fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich and worked at the University of Cambridge before coming to the U.

Outreach

In addition to my academic work, I have been involved in various outreach activities, most recently a panel discussion on music, sound and nature, and a radio interview on silence.