Szabina Kerényi

Szabina Kerényi
(MTA TK SZI)
Department: Research Department for Methodology and History of
Research
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 2246700 / 229
Building: keresztszárny (Floor, room: 2. em. 8.)
Research Interests
social movements, urban mobilizations in Eastern and Central Europe, grassroots communities and
political activism, urban structures and structural changes after the regime change
Selected Publications
2016: „Cycles of movements and structural traps of grassroots movements”. In Ágh Attila – Antal
Attila (eds.): The Power of Civil Movements. Kossuth Kiadó, Budapest
2015: „Participatory game construction” (with Viktor Bedő and Kata Horváth) in Horváth Kata –
Obláth Márton (eds.): Methods for Youth Research. A Research Methodological Synthesis. OKT-Full
Tanácsadó Kft., Budapest
2012: ‘We have had enough of Capitalism” Café Bábel 66. szám
2010: ‘Using Pollution to Frame Collective Action: Urban Grassroots Mobilisations in Budapest‘ in
Eveline Dürr – Rivke Jaffe (eds.) Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices,Oxford:
Berghahn Books
2008: ‘Trans-National Influences on Patterns of Mobilization within Environmental Movements in
Hungary’ (with Máté Szabó) in Brian Doherty – Timothy Doyle (eds): Beyond Borders:
Environmental Movements and Translational Politics. London: Routledge
2001: Spirit Awakening at Sunrise (with Péter Krasztev), Ethnologia Balkanica, 2001/5
Research Projects
H2020 COURAGE Cultural Opposition – Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former
Socialist Countries
Academic Career
since 2016: project co-manager for COURAGE at MTA TK, Institute for Sociology
Education
2008: visiting doctoral researcher at European University Institute, Florence
2006: Erasmus fellow, University of Coppenhagen, Department of Sociology
since 2004: doctoral school at Masaryk University, Department of Sociology, Chechia
1999-2004: Department of Cultural Anthropology, ELTE Budapest, Faculty of Social Sciences
2002-2003: Department of Political Science, CEU, Budapest
1999: visiting student at University of Kliment Ohridszki, Sofia, Bulgaria
1996-2002: Department of Bulgarian Philology, ELTE, Faculty of Slavic Studies
Awards and Honours
2015: Babits Mihály scholarship for translators for translating Communist Intimacy by Jasna
Koteska (from Macedonian)
2013: OSA, Visegrad Grant
2008: Freemovers’ Mobility Grant – for EUI, Florence
2006/2007: Doctoral Support Fellow, CEU, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
2006: Erasmus scholarship
2005, 2006: Supplementary Grant for Graduate Students, Open Society Foundation
2002/2003: CEU, partial scholarship
1999: visiting grant for University Kliment Ohridski, Sofia
Teaching Experience
2007: lecturer at Department of Cultural Anthropology, ELTE, Budapest
2009: lecturer at Department of Communication Studies, University of Pécs
Languages
Bulgarian (Native)
English (Proficient)
Macedonian (Proficient)
German (Intermediate)
Czech (Elementary)
Italian (Elementary)