Curriculum vitae

Dr. Margit Feischmidt

Present positions

Associate professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Pécs (Hungary), head of the Seminar of Cultural Anthropology (since 2003)

Senior Researcher at the Ethnic and National Minority Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Previous positions

1996 – 2003 lecturer, Department of Communications, University of Pécs (Hungary)

2003 – 2005 assistant professor, Methodology Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest (Hungary)

Education

2009. Doctor habilitus of University of Pécs

1995 – 2001 PhD candidate at European Ethnology Institute, Humboldt University, Berlin

2003 PhD (Dr. Phil.) magna cum laude;

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.

Grants

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

Research and Support

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.

Study trips abroad

March – July 2003, UCLA, Sociology Department supported by Fulbright NCS

February 1997 – January 1998, Berlin, Institute of European Ethnology, research grant from the German Foundation Katholischer Akademischer Auslanderdienst

September 1997, Department of Ethnology, Lund University (Sweden), visiting professor supported by Tempus Program “European Ethnology”

Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Barcelona, Spain, April 1998, visiting professor within the Tempus Program “European Ethnology”

Teaching activity (lectures and seminars)

Introduction to theories of cultural anthropology

Qualitative methods in social sciences

Rituals and discourses (in anthropology)

Theories of nationalism and ethnicity

Ethnicity - in everyday life and in politics

Multiculturalism: theoretical considerations

Ethnicity and the media

Introduction into gender studies

Nation and gender

Social memory and commemorations

Culture and conflict

Migration and the migrants

Languages

Hungarian, Romanian, German, English

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