Prof. Dr. Eva Maria Hinterhuber
Eva Maria Hinterhuber is professor of sociology with special focus on gender studies at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences. Previously, she was a research assistant at the FernUniversität Hagen and at the Maecenata Institute for Philanthropy and Civil Society at Humboldt University in Berlin, as well as a lecturer at various universities and colleges in Germany and abroad. She also worked regularly for various women's and human rights organisations. She received her doctorate in comparative political sociology from the European University Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder) and previously studied political science, Slavic studies and law at the Free University of Berlin, St. Petersburg State University (Russia) and the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck (Austria).
Her work focuses on political sociology, participation and civil society research, peace and conflict research, and the topics of religion, migration and integration, regularly from a gender perspective. Her regional focus is on Russia and Eastern Europe. Eva Maria Hinterhuber is co-editor of Femina Politica: Journal for Feminist Political Science. From 2016 to 2024, she was first an assessor and then deputy chair of the board of the Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung e.V.) and responsible for its office at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences.
At Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, she is currently a member of the Academic Senate and the Equal Opportunities Commission, as well as co-chair of the Competence Centre for Innovative Learning and Teaching. Both in 2015 and 2021, she received the Teaching Award for outstanding teaching from the HSRW. From 2025 to 2026, she is holding one of the four professorships focusing on equality, diversity, inclusion and participation. In cooperation with Dr Michaela Zöhrer and Christine Buchwald M.A., she is currently implementing the research project ‘StArt – Feminist Peace Research’, funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research. In addition to numerous other publications, she has published monographs on women's civil society engagement in Russia and on interreligious dialogue between Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Germany.