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Sophie Pia Stieger is an assistant at the Chair of Educational History and Educational Policy Analysis. She is in the final phase of her doctorate at the University of Vienna, where she also completed her Master's in Educational Science. In her dissertation, Stieger examines the intersections of educational history, religious history, and disciplinary history from a historical-deconstructive perspective, specifically focusing on the emergence of psychology in a comparison between Germany and France.
Further Research Interests include: The History of Science, the History of Philosophy, Enlightenment studies, and Foundations of Education.
Stieger, Sophie Pia (2024, forthcoming). "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.
“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)
