Margit Feischmidt Head of Research Department, Senior Research Fellow (MTA TK KI) Department: Academic Title: PhD Email: feischmidt.margit@tk.mta.hu Phone: +36-1 224-6700 / 469 Building: KI (Floor, room: III./6.) Research Interests Ethnicity, interethnic relations Nationalism, national culture and cultural memory Multiculturalism, recognition, identity politics Right wing extremism, interethnic conflicts Roma and Hungarian minorities in East-Central Europe Selected Publications Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town. 2006. Princeton University Press. Co-authors: Rogers Brubaker, Jon Fox and Liana Grancea Ethnizität als Konstruktion und Erfahrung. Symbolstreit und Alltagskultur im Siebenbürgischen Cluj. Münster-Hamburg-London: LIT-Verlag, 2003. Etnicitás. Különbségteremtő társadalom. Budapest: Gondolat. 2010. Nem kívánt gyerekek? Külföldi gyerekek magyar iskolákban. (Immigrant children in Hungarian schools) ed. Margit Feischmidt and Pál Nyiri. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Institute of Minority Studies: Budapest, 2005. Kényszerek és illeszkedések. Gazdasági és szimbolikus stratégiák aprófalvakban élő romák életében. Szociológiai Szemle 2012/2 The same study in Enlish: Constraints and Accommodation. Economic and Symbolic strategies of Romani people living in Hungarian villages. In: Heller Mária and Kriza Borbála ed. Budapest: Eötvös. forthcoming 2013 Collective criminalization of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe: Social causes, circumstances, consequences. In: The Routledge Handbook of European Criminology. Edited by Sophie Body- Gendrot, Mike Hough, Klara Kerezsi, René Lévy, Sonja Snacken. London: Routledge. Forthcoming 2013 (Co-authors Szombati Kristóf and Szuhay Péter) Work in Progress Radical right, Antigypsy mobilization and interethnic conflict. The Gyöngyöspata case in comparative perspective
Rocking the nation. Popular culture and nationalism New nationalism and its discursive construction in Hungary Mindennapi nacionalizmus. Nemzetdiskurzusok és a nacionalizmus populáris kultúrája Magyarországon. kollektiv monográfia (társszerzők: Glózer Rita, Ilyés Zoltán, Kasznár Veronika Katalin, Zakariás Ildikó) Nemzetdiskurzusok a mindennapokban és a nacionalizmus populáris kultúrája. Előszó (Feischmidt Margit) Populáris emlékezetpolitikák az újnacionalizmus. A magyarországi Trianon-kultusz társadalmi alapjai (Feischmidt Margit) A nemzet varázsa és a szélsőjobboldali szimpátia a fiatalok körében (Feischmidt Margit) Élmény és ideológia a nacionalista popkultúrában (Feischmidt Margit- Pulay Gergő) Mindennapi nacionalizmus és a másság cigányként való megjelölése (Feischmidt Margit) Cigányellenesség, retradicionalizáció és a jobboldali radikalizmus Gyöngyöspata 2011 (Feischmidt Margit - Szombati Kristóf) Academic Career 2012 Right wing extremism in Hungary from a comparative persepctive, supported by Tom Lantos Institute 2008-2011 EDUMIGROM (Ethnic Differences in Education and Diverging Prospects of Urban Youth in the Enlarged Europe) project supported by European Commission 7th Framework Program, participant researcher (http://www.edumigrom.eu/ishas) 2008-2011 New forms of nationalism and the changing discourses on nationhood in Hungary, individual research project supported by OTKA (Hungarian Science Found) 2005-2007 The chances for equality of the inhabitants of small villages in Hungary, a project of the Institute of Regionalist Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with Deparment of Communication and Media Studies of Pécs University as partner, supported by the Hungarian National Research and Innovation Found, participant researcher 2005-2007. 2007 Exchange of experience/ exploratory workshop and network building on ethnological understanding of cultural diversity in Central European (V4) urban spaces supported by the Visegrad Found. 2005-2006 Qualitative methods in cultural studies. Curriculum development supported by HEFOP. 2002-2005 The integration of migrant children in the Hungarian school system with Pál Nyíri supported by OTKA (Hungarian Science Found) 1998-2005 Nationalism and ethnicity in Transylvania, with Rogers Brubaker, Jon Fox and Liana Grancea, supported by UCLA
1998 The social memory of the violent interethnic conflict in Tirgu Mures (Romania), with Prof. Rogers Brubaker, supported by UCLA 1996 The Perception of the IFOR Forces in the Hungarian Village of Taszár, Hungary with Éva Kovács and Zsolt Szijartó and the students of the Department of Communication Studies University of Pécs, supported by the Open Society Institute 1995-1997"The Politics of National Identities in Eastern and Central Europe", project of Institute of European Ethnology, Berlin, led by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaschuba, researcher. Education 2009. Doctor habilitus of University of Pécs 1995 2001 PhD candidate at European Ethnology Institute, Humboldt University, Berlin. 2003 PhD (Dr. Phil.) Dissertation : Zwischen Abgrenzung und Vermischung: Ethnizität in der siebenbürgischen Stadt Cluj (Kolozsvár, Klausenburg), supervisors: Prof. Wolfgang Kaschuba and Prof. Rogers Brubaker. 1991 1994 Department of Cultural Anthropology, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, 1994 MA (diploma) in Cultural Anthropology; 1986 1991 Department of Hungarian and German Literature and Language, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj (Romania), 1991 MA (diploma) in Hungarian and German Philology. Membership in Academic and Professional Organisations; Editorial Board Membership Hungarian Association of Sociologists Hungarian Association of Anthropologists European Association of Social Anthropologists Association for Studies of Nationalities Awards and Honours Grants 2012 October -December) Central European University Institute for Advanced Studies 2007-2010 Bolyai János Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2003 Fulbright, Special Program Grant New Century Scholars
1999 International Policy Fellowship of the Open Society Institute, Budapest 1997 Katholischer Akademischer Ausländerdienst, support of the PhD studies at Humboldt University, Berlin 1996 Research Support Scheme Program of Open Society Institute, Budapest Teaching Experience On BA and MA level Introduction to theories of cultural anthropology Qualitative methods in social sciences Theories of nationalism and ethnicity Ethnicity - in everyday life and in politics Multiculturalism: theoretical considerations Ethnicity and the media Introduction into gender studies Social memory and commemorations Culture and conflict Migration and migrants In graduate level Ethnicity: between everyday experience and identity politics Multiculturalism and the culturalisation of social conflicts Visiting lecturer 2003 2005 ELTE, Qualitative research methods 2004-2007 Babes-Bolyai University, Ethnicity and nationalism 2007 Linnköpping University, doctoral supervisor 2008-2010 CEU Sociology and Anthropology Department, Ethnographic methods
Further Affiliations Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Pécs, associate professor Languages Hungarian (Native) English (Proficient) German (Proficient) Romanian (Intermediate)