Contact:

Email: cerwonkaa(at)ceu.hu
Office: Zrinyi 14. room 507/A
Phone: (36-1) 327-3000 ext. 3845
Fax: (36-1) 327-3296

Positions:

Professor, Central European University (Budapest), Department of Gender Studies, (October 2007 - present).

Senior Research Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, Delhi, India. (March and April 2009).

Head of Department, Central European University (Budapest), Department of Gender Studies (January 2005 - July 2009).

Associate Professor, Central European University (Budapest), Department of Gender Studies, (January 2005 - October 2007).

Assistant Professor, Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA), Department of Political Sciences and Institute for Women’s Studies (September 1999 - December 2004).

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. University of California Humanities Research Institute (1997-8).

Education:

Ph.D. in Political Science, University of California, Irvine (1997).

Critical Theory Certificate, Critical Theory Institute, University of California, Irvine (1997). Training in critical and feminist theories.

B.A. in English Literature, Smith College, Northampton, MA (1989).

Research Areas:

Social theory (post structuralism, postmodernism, liberalism, critical race); feminist theories; globalization and postcolonial theories; the body; multiculturalism; epistemology and research methods (especially ethnography); cultural studies; culture, identity and space; nationalism and citizenship.

Selected Publications:

Books

Cerwonka, Allaine and Liisa Malkki. 2007. Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Cerwonka, Allaine. 2004. Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters:

Cerwonka, Allaine. 2008. “Traveling Feminist Thought: ‘Difference’ and Transculturation in Central and Eastern Europe” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 33:4. Summer. 809-832.

Cerwonka, Allaine. 2009. “Geography, Knowledge and Transnational Cultural Studies,”Cultural Studies. Special issue on Transnationalism. Meaghan Morris and Handel Wright, eds. Vol. 23, No. 5-6. September/November. 720-735.

Cerwonka, Allaine. 2009. “Gender Studies in ‘New’ Europe: Reflections on What Lies Beyond.” In Beate Kortendiek, ed. Gender-Equality-Tagung. Bulletin Texte. Humboldt University. No. 34/35.

Cerwonka, Allaine. forthcoming “Experience,” Identity, and Methodological Quandaries in Feminist Research.” In Rosemary Buiekema, Gabriele Griffin, and Nina Lykke, eds. Researching Differently. Under consideration at Routledge Press.

Cerwonka, Allaine. 1999. “Constructed Geographies: Redefining National Identity and Geography in a Shifting International Landscape.” In International Politics: A Journal of Transnational Issues and Global Problems. Vol.36, No.3. September. (reprinted in Daniel Nelson and Laura Neack (eds.), Global Society in Transition: An International Politics Reader. New York & The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002).

Cerwonka, Allaine. 1998. “Traditional English Garden, Modern Australian Lives: The Construction of Social Identity and Urban Community.” In David Day (ed.). Australian Identities. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Press.

Current Research Projects:

I am currently working on a book-length manuscript which examines the development of the category of the “human” in the early modern period. I focus on how this category emerged out of the development of the modern self and new forms of intimacy that developed in the newly emerging private, or “intimate,” sphere. The project considers how affect and one’s humanity served as an important element to defining political subjectivity and rights for liberal democracy.

Awards and Honors:

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship. University of California Humanities Research Institute (1997-8).

Fulbright Scholar, Australia (1995-6). Melbourne University.

Andrew Mellon Foundation Grant (Summer 1995). Regents Dissertation Fellowship, University of California, Irvine (1996-7, declined 1997-8).

University of California Research Grant, University of California, Irvine (1997).

American Political Science Association (APSA) Award for Best Dissertation on Race, Ethnicity and Politics. 1998.

University of California, Irvine Outstanding Teaching Award. 1997. University-wide competition.

School of Social Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award. 1997. Awarded for outstanding teaching performance and service for the School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine.

Recent Course Offerings:

Gender and Post-State Socialism - 4 credits

Intimacy - 2 credits (Ph.D.)
Feminist Epistemology - 2 credits (MA)
Gender and Globalization - 2 credits (Ph.D.)
Thinking the Body - 4 credits (MA)

Favorite Pastime in Budapest:

Rudas Bathes; palinka