Leda Sutlović

Researcher at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies. She holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna. She received the Johanna Dohnal Förderpreis and the GAIN Gender&Agency Prize (University of Vienna) for her dissertation, “Interpreting Post-Socialist Gendered Transformations through Feminist Institutionalism, Ideas, and Knowledge: The Case of Croatia (1970-2010).”

As a postdoctoral fellow, she conducted research at the Center for East European Studies at the University of Zurich (2025), the Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe at the University of Rijeka (2023), and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Kőszeg (2019). She lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (2024–25) and the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna (2019). She has participated in several research projects focusing on the centrality of gender issues in political processes.

Most recently, she participated in the project “Gendering Democratization: Path Dependencies or Rupture in the Face of Anti-Gender Campaigns,” led by Prof. Andrea Krizsan at the CEU Democracy Institute. From May 2024 to September 2025, she worked at the Balkan Studies research unit at the IHB, where she led the project “Feeling (Counter)Democracy: Grassroots Democratic Innovations in Southeastern Europe” (DEMINSEE), which was funded by the ÖAW/FWF Disruptive Innovations Funding Program.