Daphne Fietz
2012 - 2014 Hochschule für Bildene Kuenste, Braunschweig
2014 - 2018 Kunstakademie Duesseldorf
2017 - 2018 WITS University, Johannesburg, Philosophy, Anthropology
2018 - 2019 LSE, London, MSc Culture and Society
Distinction in All Subjects
Three Times Hobhouse Memorial Prize awardee:
Best overall performance on the Masters Programmes in Sociology
Best overall dissertation on the Masters Programmes in Sociology
Best overall performance with Distinction, MSc Culture and Society
2020 - Yale University, PhD Sociology
Sterling Prize Fellowship
2023 - 2024 Fox Fellow, Sidney Sussex, Cambridge University
My work lies between social and political theory and sociology, with a focus on social and cultural transformations, climate change, phenomenology, and pragmatism.
My dissertation project called Resisting the End Times investigates what happens when people face the climate crisis head-on in a world that increasingly resists such confrontation. By showing how climate resistance groups in the Global North create meaning, address moral and ethical dilemmas, and grapple with hope—both as a guiding virtue and a contested idea, I offer a deeper understanding of the meaning of collective action beyond their outward-oriented telos.
The project underscores the need to provincialize modern assumptions about agency, progress, and the openness of the future—particularly in an era where these very assumptions are increasingly questioned.