Curriculum Vitae

Scientific Education and Career

Since 2008
Researcher in the comparative project “Local State and Social Security in Rural Hungary, Romania and Serbia” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation

2007/10 – 2009/3
Research fellow at Contemporary Researches Foundation, participating in different applied policy and rural development researches

2002/1 – 2007/2
Assistant research fellow at Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, participating in different scientific researches:

  • coordinator of “Transition in Hungary”(interdisciplinary research program),
  • researcher in Hungary within the project “Transformation of Peasant Communities: Altered Sets of Values of Village Communities in the 2nd half of the 20th century” (ethnographical comparative research on transition, and values, and norms financed by Hungarian Scientific Research Fund),
  • researcher for the economic and sociological research in Hungary within “Adaptation Strategies in Rural Economy” (financed by Hungarian Scientific Research Fund)

2001
MA in Ethnology at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary), thesis: Socialist entrepreneurs after the change of regime in Soltvadkert (Hungary)

2000/3 – 2001/12
Assistant research fellow at Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Regional Studies, Central- and North-Hungarian Research Institute, Department for Regional Development Research, participating in rural and regional development programs and scientific researches

1999
MA in Literature at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary)

Fieldwork

2008
Fieldwork on rural economy, poverty and rural development strategies in Sellye micro-region (Hungary)

2007
Fieldwork in Tompa, Kelebia (Hungary) in the framework of “External EU Land Border Monitoring Project” of the Stefan Batory Foundation, Contemporary Researches Foundation

2006
Fieldwork in the Austrian-Hungarian border region in different sites in the framework of “Gelebte Nachbarschaft in der Grenzregion, Komitate Vas und Győr-Moson-Sopron – Burgenland” (The Subsisted Neighborhood in the Austrian-Hungarian Border Region) research project of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europapolitik (ÖGfE), Wien; Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2005 – 2007
Fieldwork on rural economy in the micro-district of Böhönye (Hungary) in the framework of “Small Villages and the Life Chances of Their Inhabitants” (Founded by National Research and Development Programs, conducted by Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

2005 – 2007
Short ethnographical fieldworks on local rural economy in Szatmárcseke (2005), and in Borsodnádasd (2006, 2007) in the framework of “Adaptation Strategies in Rural Economy“ research program

2003 – 2009
Fieldwork for PhD-thesis on economic transition and local/ethnic identity and politics in Tarjan (Hungary)

2002 – 2004
Fieldwork on Miners’ Day Festival in Tatabánya (local politics and local tradition)

2002 – 2004
Short ethnographical fieldworks on local elites in Nagykőrös (Hungary) in the framework of “Social Changes in an Agrarian Town”, Nagykőrös research program (conducted by Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

2002 – 2003
Fieldwork on gendered local politics in Tarján (Hungary) in the framework of “Women in Local Governments and Local Decision-making” research program (conducted by the Foundation for the Women of Hungary – MONA)

2002
Fieldwork on different sites in the framework of “The Enforcement of Minority Rights in Baranya and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg counties (Hungary)” research program

1999 – 2001
Fieldwork for MA-thesis on strategies of agricultural entrepreneurs before and after the change of regime in Soltvadkert (Hungary)

Teaching experience

2006
Seminar and exercise course on practice of fieldwork, University of Debrecen, Department of Sociology (qualitative methods)

2006
Lecture on qualitative methods in social sciences, University of Debrecen, Department of Sociology (techniques of interview-making)

2006
Seminar on practice of fieldwork, University of Debrecen, Department of Sociology (process of analysis)

2007
Seminar and exercise course on practice of fieldwork, University of Debrecen, Department of Sociology (qualitative methods)

2009
Seminar on applied economic sociology, Corvinus University of Budapest, Institute of Sociology and Social Policy

Other activities

2004
directing a 22 minutes long documentary about the Miners’ Day Festival in Tatabánya (“Test of Strength?”), co-director was Mária Takács

2005
Contributed (as an interviewer) to the making of “The Angelmakers”, a Dutch documentary directed by Astrid Bussink (the film is about the afterlife of the poisoning cases in Tiszazug)

2008 – 2009
Contributed (as an interviewer) to the making of “Concealed Years” (working title), a Hungarian documentary directed by Mária Takács

Grants

2002 – 2005
HAS Fellowship for Young Researchers

2009
Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund

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