Friederike Windel

Professor Friederike Windel joined AUP in 2023. Before moving to Paris, Windel received her Ph.D. in Critical Social Personality and Environmental Psychology and collaborated in multiple interdisciplinary projects. She was a member of the New Media Lab at The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she worked on mixed-methods research utilizing computational social science methods. As a research affiliate with Mindscapes and the Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY, Windel collaborated in public programming with a focus on mental health and wellbeing in public spaces. She has taught psychology and interdisciplinary courses at various CUNY colleges and has worked in Academic Advising at Bennington College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. 

Growing up in Germany, Windel moved to the USA for college and has since explored questions about belonging, exclusion, Whiteness, nationalism, and home building using social computational as well as qualitative methods. Her dissertation combined computational social science and discourse analysis to examine the affective and embodied technologies of Whiteness in Germany through Twitter research and focus groups interviews. Her work has been published in Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, Critical Discourse Studies, Frontiers in Sociology, and Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH).