Sonja Riegler

My research lies at the intersection of social and political philosophy, feminist epistemology, feminist philosophy of science, and Critical Race Studies. I recently completed my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Vienna. My dissertation, A Functionalist Approach to Ignorance, supervised by Martin Kusch and Linda Martín Alcoff, develops a novel framework for analyzing socially relevant forms of ignorance, with a central case study on the largely overlooked history of “guest worker” migration to Austria. My current project advances a critical epistemology of bureaucracy, introducing bureaucracy as a crucial yet underexplored topic in political epistemology, with a particular focus on knowledge practices, forms of expertise, and power asymmetries in bureaucratic encounters.