Sophie Pia Stieger ist Postdoktorandin am Lehrstuhl für Bildungsgeschichte und Bildungspolitikanalysen. In ihrer Forschung befasst sich Stieger aus historisch-dekonstruktiver Perspektive mit den Schnittpunkten von Bildungsgeschichte, Religionsgeschichte und Disziplingeschichte, im Speziellen mit Debatten um die Seele und der Entstehung der Psychologie in Deutschland und Frankreich seit dem 18. Jahrhundert.

Weitere Arbeits- und Forschungsschwerpunkte sind: Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Philosophiegeschichte, Aufklärungsforschung und die Rekonstruktion ideologischer und historischer Grundlagen der Erziehungswissenschaft.

• Seit 2025: Postdoktorandin am Lehrstuhl für Bildungsgeschiche und Bildungspolitikanalysen, Prof. Dr. Christian Ydesen, Universität Zürich
• 2024-2025: Assistentin am Lehrstuhl für Bildungsgeschiche und Bildungspolitikanalysen, Prof. Dr. Christian Ydesen, Universität Zürich
• 2022-2024: Vertreterin des akademischen Mittelbaus in der Fakultätskonferenz der Fakultät für Philosophie und Bildungswissenschaft, Universität Wien
• 2022: Forschungsaufenthalt an der Graduate School of Education, Universität Stanford, Kalifornien
• 2020-2022: Externe Lehrende an der Fakultät für Erziehungswissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld
• 2019-2024: Assistentin (Prae-Doc) am Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Erziehungswissenschaft, Prof. Dr. Daniel Tröhler, Institut für Bildungswissenschaft, Universität Wien
• 2019: Externe Lehrende am Institut für Bildungswissenschaft, Universität Wien
• 2019-2024: Doktoratsstudium Bildungswissenschaft, Universität Wien
• 2015-2018: Masterstudium Bildungswissenschaft, Universität Wien
• 2016-2018: Tutorin in diversen Lehrveranstaltungen am Institut für Bildungswissenschaft und am Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien
• 2011-2015: Bachelorstudium Bildungswissenschaft, Universität Wien

Stieger, Sophie Pia (2025, forthcoming). “The Soul” In: Tröhler, D./Myrebøe, S. (Eds.): Handbook on Education History, Philosophy and Theory. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Stieger, Sophie Pia (2024). "Replacing Priests with Doctors? The Medicalization of Education in Eighteenth-Century France and the Question of Secularization" In Buchardt, M. (Ed.): Educational Secularization within Europe and Beyond. The Political Projects of Modernizing Religion through Education Reform. Oldenbourg: DeGruyter.

Stieger, Sophie Pia (2024). „Les Femmes Sont-Elles Françaises, Oui ou Non? Education, Political Exclusion and the Question of Women’s National Identity in France” In Fox, S. & Boser, L (Eds.): National Literacies in Education. Historical Reflections on the Nexus of Natiosn, National Identity, and Education. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 69-80.

Stieger, Sophie Pia & Daniel Tröhler (2023). „The Discovery of the Soul as a Place of Pilgrimage within: German Protestantism, Psychology, and Salvation through Education” Religions, 14(7), 921. doi.org/10.3390/rel14070921

Stieger, Sophie Pia (2023). „Transformatorische Bildungstheorie“ In Huber, M. & Döll, M. (Eds.): Bildungswissenschaft in Begriffen, Theorien und Diskursen. Wiesbaden: Springer, 629-635.

Stieger, Sophie Pia (2022). „Historische Diskursanalyse und Bildungsforschung.“ In Kergel, D., Heidekamp-Kergel, B. & August, S. V. (Eds.), Handbuch Interdisziplinäre Bildungsforschung. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, 184-200. [also in: EEO, Enzyklopädie Erziehungswissenschaft Online, doi 10.3262/EEO24230486]

Stieger, Sophie Pia (2022). „Giving Psychology a New Past: Popular Origins, Religious Heritage and the Search for Different Beginnings”, Review of Tracing the Emergence of Psychology, 1520-1750, by Sven Hroar Klempe. IJHE, 12(1), 91- 93.

Stieger, Sophie Pia (2021). Review ‘Femininity’ and the History of Women’s Education: Shifting the Frame, edited by Tim Allender and Stephanie Spencer. Comparative Education (2021), doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2021.1929475

Stieger, Sophie Pia (2020). „The Alleged Universality of Bildung – A Brief History of a Hidden National Grammar.” IJHE, 10(2), 153-169.

Stieger, Sophie Pia (2020). „Transformative Theory of Bildung: A new chapter in the German tale of Bildung.” IJHE, 10(1), 64-80.

Stieger, Sophie Pia (2020). „The German Dream of Ancient Greek as an Antisemitic Nightmare?”, Review of Moses und Homer. Griechen, Juden und Deutsche: Eine andere Geschichte der deutschen Kultur, by Bernd Witte. IJHE, 10 (1), 114-116.

“Religious but Secular? The Professionalization of Philosophy Teaching in Post-Revolutionary France” – Talk at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education [ISCHE 46, University of Lille, France, July 2025]

“The ‘Medicalization of Education’ in Eighteenth-Century France and the Complicated Question of Ideological Secularization” – Talk at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education [ISCHE 46, University of Lille, France, July 2025]

“Of Souls, Neurons, and Genes. The Educable Subject and the Refashioning of Interiority” – Talk at the Post-Doc Workshop Education Histories and Policies [University of Zürich, Switzerland, June 2025]

“Educated Bodies, Educated Brains: Untangling the Web of Ideas Behind the Contemporary Biological Turn in Education.” – Talk at a Conference on The Biological and Neuro-affective Turn in Education [University of Milan, Italy, May 2025]

“Citizenship, Nationhood, and the Question of Gender. The Case of Girls’ Education in 19th century France” – Talk at the European Social Science History Conference [ESSCH, Leiden University, Netherlands, March 2025)

“Denominations and Disciplines. Or: Why there was almost no Psychology in Catholic France” - Presentation of PhD-Project at the The Vienna-Madison-Chapel Hill-Stanford-Aalborg Doctoral Colloquium for the History and Epistemology of Education [University of Melbourne, Australia, September 2024]

“Denominations and Disciplines: The Question of the Soul as Instrument of Religious and Scientific Boundary- Making” - Presentation of PhD-Project at the The Vienna-Madison-Chapel Hill-Stanford-Aalborg Doctoral Colloquium for the History and Epistemology of Education [University of Vienna, Austria, September 2023]

“French Spiritualism and the Reform of Philosophy in Post-Revolutionary France” - Talk at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education [ISCHE 44, Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, July 2023]

“The Creation of a ‘French’ Soul-science? Spiritualism and the Import of German Psychology” – Presentation of PhD-Project at the Vienna-Madison-Chapel Hill-Stanford-Aalborg Doctoral Colloquium for the History and Politics of Education [UNC at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September 2022]

“Domestic tensions and the national appropriation of foreign ideas: French Spiritualism and the soul in education” – Talk at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education [ISCHE 43, Milan, Italy, August 2022]

“Replacing Priests with Doctors? The Medicalization of Education in Eighteenth-Century France and the Question of Secularization” – Talk at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education [ISCHE 43, Milan, Italy, August 2022]

“Discursive Schemes of Human Improvement: The Case of French Psychiatry” - Presentation of PhD-Project at the Vienna-Madison-Chapel Hill-Stanford-Aalborg Doctoral Colloquium for the History and Politics of Education. [University of Aalborg, Campus Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2021]

“Educational Reasoning in the long 19th Century – The Soul as Floating Signifier” – Talk at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education [ISCHE 42, Virtual Conference, June 2020]

“The Engineering of Souls. A Comparative Study of Religious Milieus, Conceptualizations of the Essence of Man, and the Emergence of Scientific Fields” – Presentation of PhD-Project at the International Doctoral Colloquium on the History and Theory in Foundations of Education [University of Vienna, Austria, September 2020]

“Between the Claim to Universal Validity and International Marginality: The Transformational Theory of Bildung” – Talk at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education [ISCHE 41, University of Porto, Portugal, July 2019]

“The Engineering of Souls. A Comparative Study of (A-)Religious Milieus, Conceptualizations of the Immaterial Essence of Man, and the Emergence of Educational Theories” Presentation of PhD-Project at the International Doctoral Colloquium on the Theory and Data in the History of Education [Stanford Graduate School of Education, California, September 2019]

Österreichische Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts (ÖGE 18)