Department of Gender Studies
FACULTY
STAFF
HABIL ANDREA PETÕ

Associate Professor
Contact
Email: Petoa(at)ceu.hu
Office: Zrinyi 14. room 505
Phone: (36-1) 327-3000 ext. 2214
Fax: (36-1) 327-3296
Education and degrees
Dr. habil. 2005, Contemporary history, Eötvös University, Budapest Ph. D. (Doctor universitatis) summa cum laude, 2000 in contemporary history, Eötvös University, Budapest Doctor universitatis (Ph. D.) Summa cum laude, 1992 in contemporary history, Eötvös University, Budapest M.A. sociology, with honours, 1989 Marx University of Economics, Budapest M.A. history, with honours, 1987 Eötvös University, Budapest
Research Areas
European Comparative social and gender history, gender and politics, women’s movements, qualitative methods, oral history, Holocaust
Books
Geschlecht, Politik und Stalinismus in Ungarn. Eine Biographie von Júlia Rajk. Studien zur Geschichte Ungarns, Bd. 12. Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, 2007) Napasszonyok és Holdkisasszonyok. A mai magyar konzervatív női politizálás alaktana, (Women of Sun and Girls of Moon. Morphology of Contemporary Hungarian Women Doing Politics) (Budapest, Balassi, 2003) Women in Hungarian Politics 1945-1951 Columbia University Press/East European Monographs New York, 2003. Rajk Júlia (Balassi, Budapest, 2001) Nõhistóriák. A politizáló magyar nõk története (1945-1951) (Budapest, Seneca 1998)
Other Publications
She is also the author of numerous articles in English, Russian, German, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Georgian, Hungarian, Italian and French and she edited seven volumes in Hungarian, eleven volumes in English, two in Russian.
Awards
Hungarian Republic with the Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of The Republic of Hungary (Magyar Koztarsasagi Erdemrend Tisztikeresztje) (2005) Bolyai Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2006)