Melina FISCHER, BA MSc
Research Assistant and Ph.D. Fellow

Paris Lodron University of Salzburg / Department of Sociology and Human Geography / Division of Sociology
Rudolfskai 42, A-5020 Salzburg

Tel.: +43 (0)662-8044-4112
E-Mail:

Room: 026

Melina Fischer has been a research assistant at the Department of Sociology and Social Geography since March 2024. She is enrolled in a doctoral program within the field of migration and social mobilities studies, with her research focusing on the humanitarian borderscape. Her interdisciplinary academic background includes a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Social Sciences from the University of Erfurt in Germany. She also holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology with a focus on sociocultural transformation from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, which she pursued with a full scholarship from the DAAD.

Her research interests encompass intersectionality, critical whiteness studies, decolonial studies, ethnography, and critical development studies.

Member of Migration and Mobilities Lab (MML)

Member of  IMISCOE SC RACED