PhD Graduates in 2007
Patricia Nedelea
Femina Ludens Re-Con-Queering Shakespeare - A Feminist Gendeconstruction
Supervisor: Sophia Howlett
Current position: writer
PhD Graduates in 2009
Beáta Hock
Gendered Artistic Positions and Social Voices: Politics, Cinema, and the Visual Arts in State-Socialist and Post-Socialist Hungary
Supervisor: Susan Zimmermann
Marija Grujic
Community and the Popular: Women, Nation and Turbo-folk in Post-Yugoslav Serbia
Supervisor: Elissa Helms
Current position: Institute for Literature and Art, Serbia, Research Associate
PhD Graduates in 2010
Danica Minic
Gender Sensitive Journalism and Television Media in Serbia and Croatia
Supervisor: Erzsébet Barát
Current position: Research Director, Research Works Ltd.
Dejan Ilic
War of Words and Words for War, Nationalism and Masculinity in the Field of Serbian Literature in the 1970s and 1980s
Supervisor: Jasmina Lukic
Current position: Independent researcher, literary critique, owner of publishing house Publica Kniga
PhD Graduates in 2011
Eszter Varsa
Gender, “Race”/Ethnicity, Class and the Institution of Child Protection in Hungary, 1949-1956
Supervisor: Éva Fodor
Current position: CEU, ZARAH, Post-doctoral Researcher
PhD Graduates in 2012
Dominika Gruziel
At the Crossroads of New Catholicism and the 'Woman Question': Polish Roman Catholic Laywomen's Social Activism on Behalf of Women in the Three Zones of Partitioned Poland, 1878-1918
Supervisor: Francisca de Haan
Current position: European University Institute, Department of History, Research Associate
Katja Kahlina
Sexual Politics of Belonging: Sexual Identities, Nationalism, and Citizenship in Post-Yugoslav Croatia
Supervisor: Erzsébet Barát
Current position: University of Helsinki, Sexuality and Democracy Project, Principal Investigator
Nil Mutluer
Tactics in between: Gendered Citizenship and Everyday Life of Internally Displaced Men in Tarlabasi, Istanbul
Supervisor: Susan Zimmermann
Current position: Social scientist, journalist, TV programmer and consultant for civil society and art projects
Tamar Sabedashvili
The Identification and Regulation of Domestic Violence in Georgia (1991-2006)
Supervisors: Francisca de Haan, Éva Fodor
Current position: UN Women Georgia, Deputy Country Representative
PhD Graduates in 2013
Dusica Ristivojevic
Gender and Internationalization in China: The Case of Nüxue bao (1898)
supervisor: Allaine Cerwonka
Current position: University of Helsinki, Department of Cultures, Visiting Scholar
Erika Kispéter
Producing Working Mothers: Maternalist Labor Control in a Hungarian Factory
Supervisor: Éva Fodor
Current position: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Research Fellow
Viktoriya Zhukova
Racializing Europe: Transnational and National Dimensions of Biopolitics, Health and HIV/AIDS. The Case of Ukraine
Supervisor: Anna Loutfi
Current position: Peace Corps PEPFAR, Ukraine, Program Manager
Zuzana Kepplova
The Beat of 'Cool Capitalism': How Slovak Club Cultures Helped Make the New Middle Class
Supervisor: Allaine Cerwonka
Current position: Green European Journal, columnist and commentator
PhD Graduates in 2014
Irina Costache
Archiving Desire: Materiality, Sexuality and the Secret Police in Romanian State Socialism
supervisor: Allaine Cerwonka
Current position: U.S. Department of Justice, Romania, Legal Advisor
Irina Koshulap
Women, Nation, and the Generation Gap: Diasporic Activism of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America in the post-Cold War Era
Supervisor: Allaine Cerwonka
Current position: UNHCR, Senior Performance Management Assistant
Nicole Butterfield
LGBTIQ Advocacy at the Intersection of Transnational and Local Discourses on Human Rights and Citizenship in Croatia
Supervisor: Erzsébet Barát
Current position: John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Adjunct Professor
Paul Scheibelhofer
Integrating the Patriarch? Negotiating Migrant Masculinity in Times of Crisis of Multiculturalism
Supervisor: Elissa Helms
Current position: University of Innsbruck, Department of Educational Science Assistant Professor
Sanja Kajinic
Subversive Visuality between Art and Activism: Post-Yugoslav Negotiations of Queer Art
Supervisor: Erzsébet Barát
Current position: University of Bologna, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Department of Cultural Heritage, Adjunct professor
PhD Graduates in 2015
Dorottya Rédai
Sexing the School. Constituting Gender, Ethnicity and Class through Discourses of Sexuality in a Hungarian Secondary School
Supervisor: Éva Fodor
Current position: CEU Democracy Institute, Research Fellow
Márta Kőrösi
Subversive Visuality between Art and Activism: Post-Yugoslav Negotiations of Queer Art
Supervisor: Jasmina Lukic
Current position: Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Doctoral School, Secretary
Mihai Lucaciu
The Return of the Flesh: Poetics of Male Hysteria for the Stage
Supervisor: Jasmina Lukic
Current position: Bucharest, Romania, Stage Director, Performing Arts
Nebojsa Jovanovic
Gender and Sexuality in the Classical Yugoslav Cinema, 1947-1962
Supervisor: Jasmina Lukic
Current position: Akcija Sarajevo, Film scholar, Project Coordinator
Ovidiu Anemtoaicei
Masculinities, Male Bodies and Sexual Difference: a Sketch for an Impossible "Becoming-man"
Supervisor: Linda Fisher
Current position: European Research Executive Agency (REA), Washington, Evaluation Expert
PhD Graduates in 2016
Frank Karioris
Between Class and Friendship: Homosociality in an All-Male Residence Hall in the U.S.
Supervisor: Daniel Monterescu
Current position: University of Pittburgh, Visiting Lecturer
Rita Béres-Deák
Balloons with Candles – Hungarian Same-sex Couples and their Families of Origin Renegotiating Kinship
Supervisor: Hadley Z. Renkin
Selin Cagatay
The Politics of Gender and the Making of Kemalist Feminist Activism in Contemporary Turkey (1946-2011)
Supervisor: Susan Zimmermann
Current position: CEU, ZARAH, Post-doctoral Researcher
PhD Graduates in 2017
Marianna Szczygielska
Queer(ing) Naturecultures, the Study of Zoo Animals
Supervisor: Hadley Renkin
Current position: Bard College, Berlin, faculty member
Franciska Cettl
Mapping Human-Nonhuman Biopolitics in Classic Gothic Science Fiction
Supervisor: Eszter Timár
Current position: Durham University, UK, Assistant Professor
Eva Zekany
A Biopolitics of Media Addiction
Supervisor: Eszter Timár
Current position: Research Analyst at Yardi Romania
Sonia Garzón-Ramírez
Forcibly urban: Internally Displaced Persons’ Experiences of Bogotá’s Neoliberal Transformation
Supervisor: Sara Meger
Current position: Aberystwyth University, Department of International Politics, faculty member
PhD Graduates in 2018
Ráhel Turai
Sexual Transitions: Biographical Bisexuality in Post-socialist Hungary
Supervisor: Hadley Renkin
Current position: ELTE, Faculty of Social Sciences, Assistant Professor
Maria Temmes
A Feminist Engagement with Systems Medicine
Supervisor: Judit Sándor
Current position: Tampere University, Postdoctoral Researcher
Calvin Keogh
A Singular Nomad: The Minor Transnationalism of Christopher Isherwood
Supervisor: Jasmina Lukic
PhD Graduates in 2019
Barna Szamosi
Gendered Analysis on Race and Ethnicity based Medical Discourses of Human Genetics in Hungary
Supervisor: Judit Sándor
Current position: CEU, CEALAB, Post-doctoral Fellow
Heather Tucker
The Lesbian and the NGO, an Ethnography of Queer Organizing in Accra, Ghana
Supervisor: Elissa Helms
Current position: University of Michigan, Global Impact Scholar
Adriana Qubaiova
Cross-Bracing Sexualities: Hedging ‘Queer’/Sexual Non-Normativity in Beirut
Supervisor: Hadley Renkin
Current position: CEU, Department of Gender Studies, Visiting Faculty
PhD Graduates in 2020
Alexandra Ghit
Loving Designs: Gendered Welfare Provision, Activism and Expertise in Interwar Bucharest
Supervisor: Susan Zimmermann
Current position: CEU, ZARAH, Research Affiliate
Stanimir Panayotov
The Problem of Disembodiment: An Approach from Continental Feminist-Realist Philosophy
Supervisor: Eszter Timár
Current position: University of Tyumen, School of Advanced Studies, Assistant Professor in Philosophy
Rasa Navickaite
The prehistoric Goddess of the late twentieth century: Transnational Feminist reception, Construction and Appropriation of Marija Gimbutas
Supervisor: Susan Zimmermann
Current position: University of Vienna, Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD Graduates in 2021
Emily Hertz
Process Philosophy and Feminist New Materialism: Time, Affect, and Aesthetics
Supervisor: Eszter Timár
Iva Dimovska
Queer(ing) Time in Modernism and How to Read it: James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's The Waves
Supervisor: Jasmina Lukic
Current position: CEU Democracy Institute, Post-doctoral Fellow
Sarah Werner Boada
The Aftermath of 600 Years of Abuse: Antigypsism and the Gender Violence Framework in Spain
Supervisor: Éva Fodor
Current position: University of Warwick, Department of Sociology, Assistant Professor
Lieke Hettinga
Appearing Differently: Disability and Transgender Embodiment in Contemporary Euro-American Visual Cultures
Supervisor: Hadley Renkin, Hyaesin Yoon
Current position: Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, University Lecturer
PhD Graduates in 2022
Dmitrii Dorogov
Russia's Biopolitics of Sexual Sovereignty: A Genealogy
Supervisor: Erzsébet Barát
Current position: Södertörn University, Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Helena Lopes Braga
Francine Benoît (1894-1990): Gender and Politics in the Shaping of a Professional Music Career and its Legacy
Supervisor: Francisca de Haan
Current position: Project Manager at A3ES, the Portuguese agency for evaluation and accreditation of higher education
PhD Graduates in 2023
Mariia Semashyna
The Body Is A Cupboard: Kharms, Lipavsky, And Druskin Thinking Embodiment And Sexuality Between The Human And The Non-Human
Supervisors: Jasmina Lukic, Hyaesin Yoon
Current position, CEU, Department of Gender Studies, Visiting Faculty
Andres Sarabia
The food we are not: How the gendering of global food policy veiled body malleability (Bogota 1990-2015)
Supervisor: Judit Sándor
Current position: CEU, Department of Gender Studies, Visiting Faculty
Slaven Crnic
Telling Men in The Yugoslav Historical Novel: Male Homosociality and Queerness In Ivo Andrić And Meša Selimović
Supervisor: Jasmina Lukic
Current Position: ERC project “REVENANT—Revivals of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Tribulation”, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Cultural Studies, Postdoctoral Researcher
Petra Bakos
Discursive Dwellings: Tropes of Belonging in Pannonian Fiction
Supervisors: Jasmina Lukic, Elissa Helms
Current position: CEU, Department of Gender Studies, EUTERPE, Project manager
Natalya Antonova
Crafting Freedom and Autonomy in Late Capitalism: Toward an Entangled History of Craft/Art Labour and Feminist Historical Consciousness in the Culture Industry of Russia (1994-2019)
Supervisor: Erzsébet Barát
Ida Hansen
Being Through Loss: A Queer Performative Reckoning With Grief
Supervisor: Hyaesin Yoon
Current position: Utrecht University, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Lecturer
PhD Graduates in 2024
Petar Odak
Feeling Socialism Again: Affective Ambivalences of Socialist Legacies in the Context of the Experience Economy
Supervisor: Eszter Timár