Christa Schnabl, Ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.

Christa Schnabl was Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Continuing Education at the University of Vienna from 2007 to 2011 and has been Vice-Rector for Educational Affairs since 2011. She studied theology at the University of Vienna. Following professional activities in the field of theological adult education and study and research stays in Münster, Schnabl obtained her doctoral degree from the University of Vienna in 1998. Schnabl received her habilitation degree in 2004 and was visiting professor in Frankfurt am Main and Fribourg. She was professor at the Department of Social Ethics of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Vienna, as well as Vice-Dean of the Faculty until 2007.

Education and Academic Career

1982: Graduation from Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium St. Pölten
1982-1988: Studies in Religious Education, University of Vienna
1988: Magister degree in Theology
1987-89: Training for holding seminars in the field of theological adult education
From 1989: Academic lecturer in the field of adult education
1989-1996: Academic assistant at Wiener Theologische Kurse (Vienna courses of theology, hosted by the Archdiocese of Vienna) and at Institut Fernkurs für Theologische Bildung (a church-owned theology institute based on distance courses), lecturer in the field of theological adult education
1992/1993: Studies and research in Münster/Westphalia (Germany)
1993-1998: Contract assistant professor at the Department of Moral Theology/University of Vienna (half-day)
1996-1998: Project "Power, morality and religion. On the importance of Hannah Arendt for theological ethics", organised by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (half-day)
1998: Doctoral degree in Theology
1998-2004: University assistant at the Department of Social Ethics and the Department of Moral Theology; main fields of research: basic ethics, gender ethics, political ethics, family ethics, theories of justice
Winter semester of 1998/99: Lecturer at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
1999: Winner of the Leopold Kunschak Award for the doctoral thesis
2002-2003: Charlotte Bühler habilitation scholarship (FWF)
January 2004: Habilitation in Social Ethics, resuming position as university assistant
March 2004: Appointment as associate professor at the Department of Social Ethics of the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Vienna
Summer semester of 2004: Visiting professorships at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen and at the Hochschule St. Georgen (higher education institution Frankfurt/Main)
2005: Kardinal Innitzer Research Award for the habilitation thesis
2006: Lorenz Werthmann Prize, awarded by the Caritas association of Germany, for the book "Gerecht sorgen”

Functions

October 2004-April 2007: Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Catholic Theology, University of Vienna

2007-2011: Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Continuing Education, University of Vienna

2011-2015: Vice-Rector for Student and Educational Affairs, University of Vienna

Since 1 October 2015: Vice-Rector for Educational Affairs, University of Vienna (further term: 2019)