Curriculum Vitae

Education

2017-ongoing
PhD Candidate, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
Research Group: The Bureaucratisation of Islam in its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia

2015-2016  
MSc Anthropology of International Development & Humanitarian Assistance, Brunel University London
Study emphasis: Anthropology of international development; anthropology of war and humanitarian assistance; economic and political issues in anthropology; ethnicity, culture, identity; research methods.

2012-2013   
The University of Oxford Continuing Education Department
Museums and Education vocational course
Learning activities carried out at the University of Oxford Museums (Pitt Rivers Museum, Ashmolean Museum, Museum of Natural History, Museum of the History of Science)

2003-2007  
Bachelor degree in Sociology and Anthropology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca
Study emphasis: Classical and contemporary sociological theories, introduction to socio-cultural anthropology, gender issues in sociology and anthropology; qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Grants/Scholarships

2006
Student Exchange Scholarship to study at the University of Szeged, Hungary

2007
Student Exchange Scholarship to study at the Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary

Fieldwork

December 2017 – October 2018
Anthropological research conducted in Malaysia for the current PhD project, ‘The Bureaucratization of Zakat: An Ethnography of the Culture of Giving in Malaysia’ (working title)

May-July 2016
Ethnographic research conducted for the master’s thesis Building a new home: the everyday meanings and practices of homemaking of third-country immigrants and refugees living in Budapest.

Presentations at Conferences and Workshops

04.04.2019
‘Sinners, converts, misfits” and the ustad: An Ethnography of a “Islamic Rehabilitation” Project in Malaysia’ (prelim. title) (in workshop “Bureaucratizing Diversity in Muslim Southeast Asia”), Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change (ILSP: LSC), Harvard Law School, Harvard University, USA.

27.03.2019
‘Bringing Transwomen back to Fitrah: Social Engineering through Religious Education and the use of Islamic Alms in Malaysia‘ (in Group Presentation “The Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia”), Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, USA.

13.09.2018
‘Bringing Transwomen back to Fitrah: Social Engineering through Religious Education and the use of Islamic Alms in Malaysia‘. Fieldwork Break Workshop (Emmy Noether Project), Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore.

04.06.2018 
‘The Bureaucratization of Zakat: An Ethnography of the Culture of Giving in Malaysia’ Fieldwork-break presentation of first findings of the ongoing research. Workshop ‘Social Categorization and Religiously Framed State-Making in Southeast Asia’, St Antony's College, Asian Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK.

13.-14.11.2017
‘Literature review ‘Ethnographies of the State’. Workshop ‘Studying the State: Anthropological Approaches’, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie University, Berlin, Germany.

15.09.2017
‘Southeast Asia Meet-Up’, poster presentation at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

07.09.2017
‘The Bureaucratization of Zakat: An Ethnography of the Culture of Giving in Malaysia’ Presentation at the workshop ‘Conceptualizing the Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia: Anthropological and Transdisciplinary Perspectives’ organized by the Emmy Noether Reasearch Group ‘The Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia’, Halle (Saale), Germany.

18.08.2017
‘The Bureaucratization of Zakat: An Ethnography of the Culture of Giving in Malaysia’ (in panel: Bureaucratizing the Shari'a: Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia). Conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS), University of Oxford, UK.

July 2007
‘Remembering Communism’ (presentation of bachelor thesis). Social Sciences Summer Camp, Szeltersz, Transylvania, Romania.

Languages

Hungarian (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
Romanian (fluent)
German (beginner)

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