Personal Data

Christa Schnabl
Date of Birth: 4 September 1964 (Rabenstein/Pielach)
Nationality: Austrian

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 (term: 1 October 2015 until 30 September 2019)