Karin Stoegner is Professor of Sociology at the University of Passau, Germany. She received both her PhD and her Habilitation from the University of Vienna. Previously she did research and teaching at various universities, e.g. Goethe University Frankfurt, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Vienna, Lancaster University, Georgetown University and Central European University. Her research focuses on Critical Theory and feminist theory, on antisemitism, racism, nationalism, and sexism as well as on National Socialism and the post-national-socialist societies. She currently co-ordinates the Research Network on Racism and Antisemitism in the European Sociological Association.
Our Voice of the Fortnight is from the Times of Israel's 'Wartime Diaries' podcast. In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, Shai Davidai – an Assistant Professor at Columbia University – became an unlikely public defender of Israel. And truthfully, even he was surprised by this turn of events: As a committed left-wing Israeli, he had spent years criticizing the government, and often took to the streets to demonstrate against its policies. But the atmosphere he witnessed on college campuses (and specifically on his own campus at Columbia), compelled him to speak up and speak out.