Department of Gender Studies
Iryna Koshulap, Gender PhD Student wins research fellowship Congratulations to Iryna Kosulap, a second-year PhD student, who has been awarded a Wadsworth Short-Term Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research to help support her dissertation research on Ukrainian women’s organizations in diaspora in the US. Six fellows are chosen each year from doctoral students and post-doctoral scholars from countries where anthropological research is not adequately supported. Ira is currently a visiting student researcher at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Doctoral Candidates Patricia Nedelea and Raluca Popa have received a CEU Award for Advanced Doctoral Students.
Doctoral Candidate Erika Kispéter has received a CEU Academic Achievement Award for First-Year Doctoral Students.
Andrea Peto, Associate Professor in Gender Studies at CEU, has been awarded two honors recently. She received the Bolyai Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of The Republic of Hungary civil division (Magyar Koztarsasagi Erdemrend Tisztikeresztje) by the President of the Hungarian Republic.
Ph.D. student Dusica Ristivojevic has received a prestigious grant of the University of San Francisco Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History for participating in an international colloquium about “Gender, Culture, and Power: Chinese Women & Western Women Interact in Late Imperial and Modern China” and for doing library research.
Visiting Scholars in Residence Program Begins in Gender Studies
The Department of Gender Studies at CEU announces its newest initiative, the Visiting Scholars in Residence Program. Through this program the department will accept a number of visiting scholars working on gender-related topics to be in residence for a semester or a full academic year and receive many of the benefits of CEU institutional affiliation. The deadlines for application are Nov 1st and April 21st of each year. Please see the “Research Outreach” section of this website for more details or the faculty organizer for this program, Susan Zimmermann at Zimmerma@ceu.hu.
Susan Zimmermann Awarded Pro Cultura Hungarica Memorial Award
CEU Gender Studies faculty member Susan Zimmermann has been awarded the prestigious Pro Cultura Hungarica Memorial Award by the Hungarian Minister of Cultural Heritage for her work in making gender a visible category in all fields and layers of Hungarian culture and public life. This award is given to non-Hungarian citizens in recognition of their “unforgettable merits in promoting and popularizing the values of the Hungarian culture abroad, and enriching the cultural relations between Hungary and other nations.”
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