Paula Leonie Bracker, BA MA

Room: M23 (Schottengasse 10, 1010 Wien)
Phone: +43-1-4277-413 31

eMail: paula.leonie.bracker@univie.ac.at

Since 09/2026 PhD assistent (praedoc)

CV (pdf)

Education and experience

  • 2022–2025 University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria), M.A. in Cross-Disciplinary Strategies
  • 2019-2020 Aarhus University (Denmark)Study abroad, Department of Cultural Studie
  • 2017–2021 Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany), B.A. in Cultural Studies

Research interests 

  • Environmental Humanities
  • Cultural history of the chemical element phosphorus
  • Entanglements of Earth and human history
  • Anthropocene
  • Extractivism and Colonialism
  • History of Agriculture
  • Environmental imaginaries

 

Work Experience

  • 2025–2026 Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab (AIL) Vienna
  • 2021–2023 Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt 
    - Internship under the supervision of Dipl. Geol. Philipe Havlik, Department Museum and Curation 
    - Student Assistant for the permanent exhibition Nature + Medicine
  • 2020–2021 Institute of Philosophy and Art Sciences at Leuphana University Lüneburg
    - Student Assistant for Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kemp
    - Student Assistant for Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen

 

Publications

Paula Bracker, Karl Salzmann, Samo Zeichen. 2025. “Petromusicality. On the Sonic Culture
of (Plastic) Material and Beyond.” Journal of Sonic Studies, no. 28 (July).
doi.org/10.22501/JSS.3774389