Dr. Eugene Sensenig is a Professor of Gender, Communications and Global Mobility Studies. He was previously Director of the Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC) in Lebanon, which he co-founded in 2003. He has taught on the university level in Austria, Lebanon, Lithuania, Germany, and the United States, where he has carried out extensive applied and basic research. Dr. Eugene Sensenig was born in Harrisonburg, in the US state of Virginia.
He holds a doctorate of international relations from the Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS) as of 1985. Following his MA in German Literature, PhD on the US occupation of Austria, and longitudinal studies for his Habilitation on 150 years of Austrian migration policy (1845-1995) at PLUS, he worked in Lebanon as of 1999, focusing primarily on global mobility studies from a gendered perspective.
Dr. Sensenig’s current research interests include ecumenical, interfaith and Abrahamic dialogue in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, Christian Social Teaching and sustainable development, Central European Orientalist cultural studies, gender and masculinity studies, and the political economy of sectarianism and coexistence.
Role
Professor of Gender, Communications and Global Mobility Studies, Stockholm School of Eastern Christian Studies within Sankt Ignatios College, belonging to the subject collegium of Ecclesiology and Liturgical Studies
eugene.sensenig@sanktignatios.org