Eva Kreisky
Hannelore Eva Kreisky, née Zgraja (born 8 September 1944 in Vienna) is an Austrian political scientist and jurist. Biography. She earned a doctorate in law at the University of Vienna in 1971, and studied political science at the Institut für Höhere Studien in Vienna, where she worked from 1972. She became head of department for the Department of Political Science in 1979, and earned her Habilitation in 1986–87. From 1989 to 1993, she was Professor of political science, in particular women's studies, at the Free University of Berlin. She was Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at the  University of Vienna from 1993, and became Professor there in 1995. She became a member of the council of the University of Innsbruck in 2007. Kreisky is known for her research on state theory, theory of bureaucracy, feminism, political theory and the history of ideas. She was married to the late political scientist Peter Kreisky, and the daughter-in-law of former Chancellor Bruno Kreisky.