Dr. Thomas Schmidinger

Introduction

Thomas Schmidinger is a political scientist and social and cultural anthropologist. He teaches at the University of Vienna and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH). He is co-editor of the Vienna Yearbook for Kurdish Studies and has published several books on Syria, Iraq, Sudan, among others, most recently 2022 “The World Has Forgotten Us. Sinjar and the Islamic State’s Genocide of the Yezidis”.

Education

• - 1988 - 1993: Rankweil School of Higher Technical Education / Institute for Communications Engineering
• - 1995 – 2003: University of Vienna / MA in political science; social and cultural anthropology
• - Since 2005: Language courses in Russian, Persian, Albanian, Serbo-Croatian and Kurdish
• - 2007/2008: University didactics curriculum: “The Art of Teaching”
• - 2014: PhD in Political Science, University of Vienna