17.02.1956: geboren in Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA

1974: Abitur am Warwick High School, Lititz, Pennsylvania, USA

1973–1975: Studium am Franklin & Marshall College und Goshen College, USA

1984: Diplom in Germanistik, Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (PLUS)

1985: Doktorat, Politikwissenschaft und Internationale Beziehungen, PLUS

1985-1999: Lehrbeauftrager in Salzburg, Innsbruck, und Wien für Geschichte und Politikwissenschaft; Archivar und Leiter der Bildersammlung beim Ludig-Boltzmann-Institut für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung Salzburg; Arbeit an Habilitation in Geschichte „150 Jahre Österreichischer Einwanderungspolitik“

1993: Mitbegründer des Forschungsunternehmens „GenderLink Diversity Center“ Salzburg als Social Enterprise (OEG)

2000–2013: Lehrbeauftrager, später Assistant Professor an der Lebanese American University (LAU) Beirut, Haigazian University Beirut, Notre Dame University Zouk Mosbeh (NDU) für Politikwissenschaft und Cultural Studies

2003: Mitbegründer des „Lebanese Emigration Research Center“ (LERC), Leitung der Applied Research Section, 2023-2025 Direktor von LERC

2013-2023: Habilitierung, Associate Professor for International Relations, Gender Studies, and Global Mobility, Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLPS), NDU

WiSe 2018: Gastprofessor, Arab Institute for Women - (LAU) Beirut, im Bereich Gender-Based Violence (GBV)

SoSe 2019: Gastprofessor, Universität Erfurt - Middle Eastern Sociology/Anthropology and History (MESH) Program, im Bereich „Migration in Mitteleuropa and the Middle East“

2022: Mitbegründer der „Gender, Communications, and Global Mobility“ (GCGM S.A.R.L) studies unit, Limited Liability Company (LLC)

WiSe 2023/24: Gastprofessor LLC International University Klaipėda, Litauen, im Bereich „Political Communications and Conflict Transformation“ 

2023-2025: Berufung als Full Professor FLPS, NDU; 2025 Emeritierung

seit SoSe 2024: Research Fellow, New York University School of Law –The Future of Rights and Governance (FORGE), Center for Human Rights & Global Justice

2026: Berufung als Full Professor of Gender, Communications & Global Mobility Studies, Sankt Ignatios College | Stockholm School of Eastern Christian Studies - Södertälje, Sweden

seit WiSe 2026/27: Lehrauftrag Online Campus des Christlichen Ostens an der Theologischen Fakultät der KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

Migration, Flucht und „Global Mobility“ Forschung

Ethnische Verfolgung, Genozid, und Intergenerationale Trauma 

Gender, Geschlecht und Männlichkeitsforschung 

Mitteleuropäische Orientalismusforschung

Nachhaltige Entwicklung in den Bereichen Bergbau, Energie, Landwirtschaft, Umwelt und Verkehr

Interreligiöse, ökumenische und abrahamitische Dialog

Dialog zwischen Religion und Wissenschaft – Laizismus und Laizität

Laufende Projekte:

The Human Rights of Human Resources (HRofHR), The Future of Rights and Governance (FORGE), Center for Human Rights & Global Justice (CHRGJ) at the New York University (NYU) School of Law (January 2024 – Present)

Integration of Arab-Christian immigrant youth in North America and the European Union (January 2023 – Present)

Diaspora-Homeland Communication – longitudinal survey of Lebanese communities around the world (September 2022 – Present)

Unterrichtstätigkeit:

Notre Dame University- Louaize (NDU) Full Professor – focus on gender, DEI, and global mobility studies. (September 2002 – 2025).

New York University School of Law – The Human Rights of Human Resources (HRofHR), The Future of Rights and Governance (FORGE), Center for Human Rights & Global Justice. Researcher and Seminar Lecturer (January 2024 – Present).

Universität Salzburg – Curriculum development and Erasmus+ Joint Master in Political Science –Integration and Governance program (PoSIG) integration, together with the EU, Western Balkans, Caucasus, and WANA region. (2018 – Present).

LLC International University Klaipėda, Lithuania – Political communications and conflict transformation Visiting Scholar. (Spring 2023).

Universität Erfurt - Middle Eastern Sociology/Anthropology and History (MESH) program – Visiting Professor. (Winter 2019).

Lebanese American University (LAU) Beirut – Gender-Based Violence (GBV) research methods training modules – Consultant and Professor (Fall 2018).

Konferenzen:

PoSIG Teacher Academy 2026: Higher Education: Internationalization matters! -- University of Salzburg, Rudolfskai 42, 14-19 September. Apply at Erasmus+

Experiments for Change in a Shifting Global Context, Future of Rights and Governance (FORGE) Program at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law (Forthcoming March 2025)

International planning committee, Salzburg/Nova Garica/Trieste, Teacher Academy 2025 - "Contaminated Landscapes and Integration - How History Makes the Future?", Erasmus+ Joint Master in Political Science–Integration and Governance program (PoSIG), Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS) (August-September 2025)

‘Worlds of Digital Labour’, International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH), Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria, the Chamber of Labour of Vienna, the Austrian Society for Political Education, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and the City of Linz. (September 2024)

Global Sessions, “Youth Under Pressure: Promoting Health and Wellbeing in an Age of Multiple Crises”, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland. (May 2024)

The Future of Rights and Governance (FORGE), Center for Human Rights & Global Justice at the NYU School of Law (November 2023)

Teacher Academy 2023 ‘Resilience amidst Conflict(s): Migration, Governance, and Integration’, Erasmus+ Joint Master in Political Science–Integration and Governance program (PoSIG), Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS). (April 2023)

PoSIG Teacher Academy 2022, “Trade Policy in the Age of Populism”, Paris Lodron University Salzburg (PLUS). (July 2022)

Between Peril and Potential: Human Rights Advocacy in the Wake of a Global Pandemic, Social Practices of Human Rights 2021 Conference, University of Dayton, Ohio (May 2021)

Living Together: Tolerance, an Ethical Basis for Peace, Justice and Intercultural Dialogue, UNESCO Centre Byblos, Lebanon (August 2019)

Housing and Integrating Refugees: Innovative Best Practices from around the Globe, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute, Caritas International and Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Freiburg (April 2018)

‘Lebanon’s Caux Round Table: Is Moral Capitalism Possible? The Benedict XVI Endowed Chair of Religious, Cultural and Philosophical Studies, MA’AM, and Initiatives of Change Lebanon and UK. (March 2017)

Social Practices of Human Rights 2017 Conference, An examination of human rights advocacy, University of Dayton, Ohio. (November 2017)

Thomas More’s Utopia: 500 Years On, NDU, Lebanon (May 2016)

‘Imagining the Impossible: Railroads in Lebanon’ TEDxNDULouaize, Lebanon. (June 2016)

Practical wisdom, social partnership and cooperative governance: What Lebanon and the Middle East can learn from the success of social market economy’, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Beirut. (October 2016)

" النو ع الإجتما ع والمواطنة" : الأحوا ل الشخصية وتحد ي دية
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التعد
ف لبنان = The "Gender-citizenship nexus" : Lebanese family status law and the challenge of legal pluralism, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Beirut. (December, 2015)

▪ The Protestant Reformation and the Middle East, Near East School of Theology and the University St. Joseph, Beirut (March 2015)

▪ Transformations in the Global South – Taking Stock, Global South Studies Center (GSSC) of the University of Cologne (May 2015)

▪ The Armenian Genocide Legacy, 100 Years On, The Hague Institute for Global Justice, Centennial Project Foundation, NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust & Genocide Studies, University of Southern California Dornsife Institute for Armenian Studies, The Hague. (March 2015)

▪ The Social Practice of Human Rights: Charting the Frontiers of Research and Advocacy University of Dayton., Ohio. (October 2015)

▪ "Functioning Democracy: Academic Freedom, Pluralism and Good Governance", Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF), Gummersbach Germany, Aachen, and Brussels. (November 2015)

▪ Preservation of the Swiss Alpine Railways – Lessons for Lebanon, Université Saint-Joseph Department of Political Science, Swiss Embassy Lebanon, Train/Train NGO. (October 2015)

▪ Caux Just Governance for Human Security Conference, Armenian, Turkish, Kurdish, German Youth Dialogue, Initiatives of Change, Caux, Switzerland. (July 2015)

▪ “Just Governance” Conference on Extractive Industries and the Resource Curse, Mining, Initiatives of Change, Caux, Switzerland. (August 2014)

▪ Introduction to Oral History: Theory and Practice, Umam Documentation and Research, Haret Hreik, Beirut. (April 2014)

▪ Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy (TIGE), Initiatives of Change, Caux Switzerland. (July 2014)

Aktuelle wissenschaftliche Arbeiten und Veröffentlichungen:

2025
Intersectional-Bordering of Contaminated Landscapes: Thana-Tourism and History Hikes in the Middle East and Mitteleuropa, – Hiking to Peace?, PoSIG Teacher Academy, Call for PoSIGTA25:Historical Taboos & Integration, Gorizia/Gorica/Görz, Italy 04 September 2025.

Beyond borders, Beyond crisis: The experience of foreign nationals in Lebanon during wartime, Eugene Sensenig, published by The Lebanese Emigration Research Center (LERC) fact sheet series on forced displacement of foreign nationals 2023-2025.

2024
Open Global Rights, The human rights of human resources: Workplace justice in Lebanon, Eugene Sensenig & Rouba El Helou, 9 October 2024, NYU Law School.

Open Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Open Legislative Theater (watch here) – Working with Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal & Elinor Ostrom on Open Educational Resources (OER), Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Theater of the Oppressed, and Understanding the Knowledge as a Commons in the Global South, 07 March 2024, OEWeek at NDU.

2023
Malek, Rima, Eugene Sensenig and Rouba El-Helou (2023), Completing the Circle: Returning to Blended Learning in a Culture of Impunity, in: Olivier, Jako and Fawzi Baroud, ‘Open educational resources and open pedagogy in Lebanon and South Africa’, Axiom Academic Publishers: Potchefstroom, South Africa., URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ovz6lJbIk6psQhxiQe1xfvScOQ2u2reD/view

2022
Sensenig, Eugene (2022). Local Heroes: The Legacy of Christian Social Activists and Social Justice in the Middle East, in: AlDajani, Iyad Muhsen & Martin Leiner (eds.), Academic Alliance For Reconciliation in the Middle East and North Africa (AARMENA), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, ‘Reconciliation, Heritage, and Social Inclusion’, Springer Nature Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, pp 231-250.

Sensenig, Eugene Richard & Rouba El Helou (2022). Political Economy of Sectarianism and Coexistence in Lebanon [fact sheets & instructional videos], Gender, Communications and Global Mobility (GCGM) studies unit, Faculty of Law and Political Science, NDU-Louaize, Lebanon. (https://ir.ndu.edu.lb:8443/xmlui/handle/123456789/1653).

2021
El Helou, R. and E. Sensenig (2021). ‘Gender Mainstreaming Oil and Nature Gas in Lebanon: Analysing the Current, Developing and Potential Impacts of the Petroleum Sector on Women, Men, Youth and Gender Relations from a Multi-Stakeholder Group Perspective’, Gender, Communications and Global Mobility (GCGM) studies unit, FLPS NDU, (https://ir.ndu.edu.lb:8443/xmlui/handle/123456789/1428).

El Helou, R. and E. Sensenig (2021). ‘Media Monitoring Report Lebanon. Global Media Monitoring Project’, for the World Association for Christian Communication, Gender, Communications and Global Mobility (GCGM) studies unit, FLPS NDU, (https://ir.ndu.edu.lb:8443/xmlui/handle/123456789/1433).

2020
Bernard, V. and E. Sensenig (eds) (2020), ‘3 Jahre Europa – Europe: 3 Years/Eine Dokumentation zu Projekten mit Geflüchteten – A Refugee Projects Reader’, Peter Lang
Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin (https:// www.peterlang.com/view/title/71332).

Cedeno, A, and E. Sensenig (2020). ‘Promoting Women in the Petroleum Extraction Sector in the Middle East’, Women Offshore podcasts with the Gender, Communications and Global Mobility (GCGM) studies unit in the Faculty of Law and Political Science (FLPS) at NDU, ‘First Woman Offshore Lebanon’, episode 28, Women Offshore August 2020 (https://womenoffshore.org/first-woman-offshore-lebanon-episode-28/); Championing ‘Women in Lebanon’, episode 29, Women Offshore August 2020. URL: https://womenoffshore.org/championing-women-in-lebanon-episode-29-2/

2019
Sensenig, E. (2019). ‘Masculinity and Affectedness: Gender Awareness and Subjectivity as a Research Asset’, in: F. Elbers, The Future of Men. Men, Masculinities and Gender Equality, special issue of AnaLize - Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies, Bucharest, URL: https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=807870

Sensenig, E. (2019). ‘The Role of Diversity in Promoting Tolerance and Liberal Democracy.’ International Centre for Human Sciences, Byblos (Jbeil), (https://cish-byblos.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/24.pdf), in: Living Together Tolerance: An Ethical Basis For Peace, Justice and Intercultural Dialogue, Darina Saliba Abi Chedid (ed). URL: http:// cish-byblos.org/?p=4706), pp. 33-50.

Sensenig, E. (2019). ‘Catholic Social Theory and Practice in the 21st Century: A challenge for believers in the Middle East’, in: Alam, Edward (ed.), Thomas More’s Utopia: 500 Years On, NDU Press, pp. 102-122, URL: https://ir.ndu.edu.lb:8443/xmlui/handle/123456789/969.

Sensenig, E. (2019). ‘Looking for a City with Foundations: Intentional Urban Communities as a Christian Response to Violence, Oppression, and Injustice’, in: P. Simonič (ed.), Anthropological Perspectives of Solidarity and Reciprocity, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakul - tete Univerze v Ljubljani, Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana Press, URL: https://e-knjige.ff.uni-lj.si/znanstvena-zalozba/catalog/view/134/233/3624-1

Sensenig, E. (2019). ‘Catholic Social Theory and Practice in the 21st Century: A challenge for believers in the El Helou, R. and E. Sensenig (2021). ‘Gender Mainstreaming Oil and Nature Gas in Lebanon: Analysing the Current, Developing and Potential Impacts of the Petroleum Sector on Women, Men, Youth and Gender Relations from a Multi-Stakeholder Group Perspective’, Gender, Communications and Global Mobility (GCGM) studies unit, FLPS NDU, URL: http://ir.ndu.edu.lb/123456789/1428

Sensenig, E. (2019). ‘Is the Medium Still the Message? Breaking the Glass Ceiling in Lebanon’, (http://www. lb.undp.org/content/lebanon/en/home/presscenter/news-letters/2019/PB22/10.html); in: The UNDP Peace Building in Lebanon News Supplement - 22nd Issue, posted on 19 August 2019, URL: www.lb.undp.org/content/lebanon/ en/home/presscenter/news-letters/2019/PB22.html

2017
Alam, E., O. Sakr, E. Sensenig, and Y. Zgheib, ‘Lebanon’s Caux Round Table: Is Moral Capitalism Possible?’ URL: www.ndu.edu.lb/news-and-events/events/announcements/is-moral-capitalism-possible, retrieved 20 October 2017, Workshop/Seminar, (March 8-9 2017), organized by The Benedict XVI Endowed Chair of Religious, Cultural and Philosophical, MA’AM, and Initiative of Change, URL: http://www.iofc.org/cancapitalism-be-moral-poses-beirut-business-conference.

Sensenig, E., et al (2017). ‘Gender and Violence Curriculum: Capacity Building for Academic Institutions on Gender and GBV’, Beirut: Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World. URL: http://ir.ndu.edu.lb/123456789/975

2016
Sensenig, E., (2016). ‘Working Fathers in the Lebanese Marketplace of Ideas’, in: R. El Helou and E. Sensenig Konrad-Beirut ,”nexus citizenship-Gender “The = النوع اإلجتما ي ع والمواطنة“
  ي لبنان
: األحوال الشخصية وتحدي التعددية ف ,(.eds( Adenauer Stiftung, pp. 15-23.

El Helou, R. and E. Sensenig (eds.) (2016), ي التعددية وتحدي الشخصية األحوال :“
لبنان ف
والمواطنة اإلجتما ي ع النو ع = The “Gender-citizenship nexus: Lebanese family status law and the
challenge of legal pluralism, Beirut: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, URL: http://ir.ndu.edu.lb/123456789/971

Abou Mrad, E. and & Sensenig, E. (2016). TEDxNDU presentation T/T 2016, ‘Imagining the Impossible: Railroads in Lebanon’ TEDxNDULouaize, 23rd of April, 2016 URL: www.youtube.com watch?v=JuTeKefCL10&t=0s&list=PLiu6yv5WMJ9eXlU8khfy5WtXNGEYvyYe7&index=6

Sensenig, E. (2016). ‘Practical wisdom, social partnership and cooperative governance: What Lebanon and the Middle East can learn from the success of social market economy’. URL: www.kas.de/libanon/en/ publications/46727/, conference organized by the Pope Benedict XVI Chair of the Faculty of Humanities of the Notre Dame University-Louaize and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, published Lebanon, October 19, 2016. URL: http://www.kas.de/wf/doc/kas_46727-1522-2-30.pdf?170124090620

2015
Sensenig, E. (2015). ‘A Turk by any Other Name: Michael Sattler, Martin Luther, the Radical Reformation, and the Middle East’, in: The Protestant Reformation and the Middle East, Papers presented at the International Conference held at the Near East School of Theology and the University St. Joseph, Beirut Lebanon, March 18-22, 2015, Special Double Issue, pp. 51-69, URL: https://ir.ndu.edu.lb:8443/xmlui/handle/123456789/1038

Sensenig-Dabbous, E. (2015). ‘The Musa Dagh History Hike: Truth-Telling, Dialogue and Thanatourism’, in: Demirdjian, A. (ed.), The Armenian Genocide Legacy, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 229-242, pre-print. URL: https:// www.researchgate.net/publication/299642412_The_Musa_Dagh_History_Hike_Truth-Telling_Dialogue_and_ Thanatourism

Sensenig-Dabbous, E. (2015). ‘A Turk by Any Other Name: Michael Sattler, Luther and the Radical Reformation’, The Protestant Reformation and the Middle East, International Conference held at the Near East School of Theology and the University St. Joseph, Beirut Lebanon, March 18-22, 2015.

Sensenig-Dabbous, E. and G. Hourani (2015). ‘Migration Patterns in the Global South. The Middle East and North Africa as a reflection of policy alternatives in the fields of security, labor market, and social welfare planning’, Cologne Global South Studies Center (GSSC) Shifting patterns in immigration policies conference, 27-29 May, 2015, URL: gssc.uni-koeln.de/node/495) URL: http://voices.unikoeln.de/2015-2/migrationpatternsintheglobalsouth

Sensenig-Dabbous, E. (2015). ‘The Musa Dagh History Hike: Truth-telling, Dialogue and Thanatourism’ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRBG09d8GhA) presented at: The Armenian Genocide Legacy, 100 Years, 6 and 7 March 2015, The Hague Institute for Global Justice, conference organized by the Centennial Project Foundation, the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and the University of Southern California Dornsife Institute for Armenian Studies.

Sensenig, E., (2015). ‘Shadows of Shame’, translation of video subtitles, dubbing, and DVD album cover of: Zwitter-Grilc, S. (author and director), Schatten der Scham, 2013, Slovensko prosvetno društvo/Slowenischer Kulturverein Zila, ORF Austrian Television: Klagenfurt/Celovec.