Country of residence

Hungary

Brief introduction

Assistant professor, Eszterházy Károly Főiskola, Eger, Hungary Research fellow, Central European University, Center for Policy Studies, Budapest, Hungary

Education

PhD, Sociology, 2008, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Academic profile

I am a sociologist and my main areas of research include the construction of ethnic identities, focusing on Roma in communist and in post-communist times. I have also conducted projects on labour market strategies of Roma communities as well as on the issue of poverty and ethnicity. I have participated in projects on educational inequalities and done research on the construction of “otherness” and the media both in national and international contexts. Lately, I have been researching issues related to in)tolerance focusing on the extreme right and their anti-Gypsy discourse.

Publications

• Anikó Horváth – Zsuzsanna Vidra – Jon Fox: Tolerance and Cultural Diversity Discourses in Hungary. Accept Pluralism, 2011. http://cps.ceu.hu/publications/policy-research-reports/tolerance-and-cultural-diversity-discourses-hungary-2011
• The Unhidden Jew”. Jewish Narratives in Romany Life-Stories. In: Stewart, M. and Rövid, M. (eds.): Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Romany Studies, Central European University Press, Budapest, 2010.  pp. 196-208.

Keywords

Minorities, Roma, poverty, education, media

Contact

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