Friederike Windel
Assistant Professor
- Department: Psychology, Health and Gender
- Office:PL-104B
Professor Friederike Windel joined 绿巨人视频 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.听
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听Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology,听Critical Discourse Studies,听Frontiers in Sociology, and听Interdisciplinary Digital Engagement in Arts & Humanities (IDEAH).
Education/Degrees
PhD in Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
M.Phil in Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
MA in Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
Publications
- Windel, F., Than, N., Perkins, K. M., & Rodriguez, M. Y. (2023). Color鈥恇lind and racially suppressive discourses on German鈥恠peaking Twitter: A mixed method analysis of the Hanau White nationalist shootings.听Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology,听33(3), 587-607.听听
- Than, N., Windel, F., & Steele, L. G. (2022). # Lorrydeaths: structural topic modeling of Twitter users' attitudes about the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants to the United Kingdom.听Frontiers in Sociology,听7, 787450.听
- Than, N., Yoong, D., Rodriguez, M. Y., & Windel, F. M. (2021).听鈥淲elcome to Gab鈥:听Exploring Political Discourses in a Non-Moderated Social Media Platform. IDEAH.听
- Windel, F., Balaram, A., & Perkins, K. M. (2020). Discourses of the Willkommenskultur (Welcoming culture) in Germany.听Critical Discourse Studies,听19(1), 93-116.听