Enikő Magyari-Vincze

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

• Ph.D. in Philosophy with the thesis “The Anthropology of Nationalist Identity Politics” (1997 June)
• Graduated in Philosophy at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania (1984)

Work experience

• Professor at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania (2003 February - present), on cultural anthropology and gender studies
• Associate professor at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania (1998 - 2003)
• Lecturer at the Department of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj (1995-1998)
• Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj (1992-1995)
• Editor of the journals "Átmenetek" (Transitions), and "Művelődés" (1990-1992)
• Middle high and high school teacher in Miercurea- Ciuc and surrounding villages (1984-1990)

University courses

Between 1992 – 1996:

Between 1996 – 2000:

Between 2000 - preseent

Research experience

Organizational experience
 

   Teaching
·        Coordinator of the M.A. Complex Cultural Research at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj (started in 2005)
·        Coordinator of the M.A Gender, Differences and Inequalities at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj (2003 – present)
< style="font-family: comic sans ms;">·        Scientific director of the Gender Studies Program at Babes-Bolyai University (2001 – present)
·        Coordinator of the M.A. on European Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj (1996 - 1999) 

Scholarships

         Personal

·   International Policy Fellowship, Open Society Institute, grant for the policy research Roma women’s reproductive health (2005-2006)

·        Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Institut für die Wiesenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, for the researh project Social exclusion at the crossroads of ethnicity, gender and class. A view through Roma women’s reproductive health (April-June 2006) 

·        DAAD, Münster Universitat, research on Equality politics in the EU (November 2002)

·        OSI-HESP grant for documentation visit to the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, course development Gender, nation and nationalism (May 2002)

·        OSI-HESP grant for documentation visit to the University of Sussex, UK and to the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, course development Anthropology and feminism (February 2001)

·        Bolyai scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for the research Feminism as identity politics in the post-socialist Romania (1999 – 2001)

·        Post-doctoral Fulbright fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles for the research project Understanding multiculturalism at American universities. The case of Chicano(a) Studies (August 1998 – June 1999)

·        CEU/HESP scholarship for the development of the course Politics of Identity and Nationalism (1997-1998)

·        Tempus grant, University of Sussex, UK, course development Introduction into cultural anthropology (May 1997)

·      CEU scholarship, Regional Seminar of the Gender and Culture Program of the Central European University, Budapest with the project Women’s issues in Romanian politics after 1989 (1996 – 1997)

·      Tempus grant, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands and State University of Milan, Italy, writing my PhD thesis The Anthropology of Nationalist Identity Politics (May – June 1996)

·        Course Development Program grant, Open Society Institute, course on Political Anthropology (1996)

·        Sasakawa scholarship for the research project Symbols and power. The symbolic dimensions of the  Romanian nationalism after 1989 (1995 – 1996)

·        Research Support Scheme grant, Central European University for the research project  Politics and culture. Reconstructing politics in Romania after 1989 (1994 – 1996)

Collective (grant director)

·        South-East Faculty Development Program, HESP, OSI Curriculum Development in Gender Studies (2000-2003)

·        HESP, OSI grant for the program Teaching Gender in Eastern Europe (2005-2008)

·        Founder member and director of the Centre for Gender Studies at Babes-Bolyai University (organized in 2006)

·        President of the Society of Cultural Anthropology from Romania (2003 – present)

·        Founder member and coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Group for Gender Studies, at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology, Babes-Bolyai University (2000 – 2006)

·        Founder member and co-director of the Institute for Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of European Studies, Cluj (1997 - present)

·        Member in the international organizations „Women’s Studies International Europe” and „Network of East-West Women” (1996 – present)

·        Member of the Centre of Research on Interethnic Relations in Romania, at Babeş-Bolyai University (1992 – present)

• Founder member of the Society of Cultural Anthropology from Romania (1990 - present)
• Founder member of the Workshop for Anthropology & Communication, Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania (1986-1992)

    Within editorial boards

·        Member on the International Board of the European Journal of Women’s Studies (1999-2004)

·        Coordinator of the Cultural Analysis Series of the Publishing House EFES, Cluj (1997-present)

·        Editor-in-chief of the review "Caietele Tranzitiei" (Papers on Transition) (1997-2000)

    Within civic organizations

·        Co-organizer of the program “Until Violence Will Stop”, together with Artemis Centre with the occasion of Women’s International Day (March, 2004)

·        Organizer of the program “Women’s Works” with the occasion of Women’s International Day (March, 2003)

·        Organizer of the program “Feminine Presences” with the occasion of Women’s International Day (March, 2002)

·        Organizer of the program “Another March” with the occasion of Women’s International Day (March, 2001)

·        Co-organizer of the program “Women for Equal Opportunities” with the occasion

of Women’s International Day (March, 2000)

·        Founder member and curator of Tranzit Foundation, Cluj (1997 – present)

• Founder member and president of Foundation Desire (1996 - present)

Participation on conferences with papers (1997 – present)

•  July 2006,  Mainstreaming Gender and Ethnicity into Public Policies,  organized by Michigan State University at the University of Istambul, Turkey
• June 2006, Universities as Sites for Identity Politics, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menchen, Vienna, Austria
• May 2006, Social Exclusion at the Crossroads of Ethnicity and Gender, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menchen, Vienna, Austria
• June 2006, Universities as Sites for Identity Politics, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menchen, Austria  
• January 2005, Gendering the state, gendering the body: a workshop on gendered ideologies and practices of the state (the paper „Contraception – policies, exclusionary practices and lived experiences”), University of Bergen, Norway
• December 2004, “Gender politics in the European Union”, public lecture at the Institute of European Research, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
• October 2004, Women and Gender in the New Europe (the paper “Socialism, European integration and the reproduction of gender inequalities in Romania”), Centre for Women’s Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
• September 2004, Teaching Anthropology: Means and Meanings, summer school (lecture on “Women’s Condition in Romania”), Faculty of Sociology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
• March 2004, “Visions about scientific research at the crossroads and feminism, public lecture at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj
• September 2003, Teaching Anthropology: Means and Meanings, summer school (lecture on “Feminism and Anthropology” and workshop on “Anthropological Research as Situated Knowledge Production”), Faculty of Sociology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
• August 2003, “Gender (in)equality in the post-socialist Romania” paper presented at the 5^th European Feminist Research Conference, Lund, Sweden
• June 2003, Renegotiating socio-cultural identities in the post-socialist Eastern Europe (“The Persistance of Gender (In)equality in Romania Across Political Regimes”), Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
• November 2002, ATHENA European Thematic Network in Women’s Studies, Portoroz, Slovenia (“Understanding gender equality in Romania”)
• October 2002, Dimensiunea de gen a educaţiei, Goethe Institut, Societatea de Analize Feministe ANA, Bucureşti
• June 2002, „Teaching gender in Cluj”, paper presented at the conference Gender studies in Romania, New Europe College, Bucureşti
• October 2001, „Teaching anthropology in Romania”, presented at the conference Anthropology in Central and Eastern Europe, New Europe College and Society for Cultural Anthropology from Romania, Bucureşti
• June 2001, Academic feminism in Cluj and in Europe, international workshop, Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania (the paper “The contribution of gender studies to the higher education reform in Romania”)
• September 2001, “The construction of the social order at the crossroads of ethnicity and gender”, paper presented at Research on Ethnicity and Interculturalism, West University, Timişoara, Romania
• September 2000, “Am I that white?”, paper presented at the international conference Representing anthropology and anthropological representations in Central and Eastern Europei, Faculty of European Studies, Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj
• May 1999, “Politics of Multiculturalism and the Construction of Border Identities”, paper presented at the Center for Comparative Social Analysis, Dept. of Sociology, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
• April 1999, “Ethnic and Regional Identity Politics in the Post-Socialist Romania”, paper presented at the Center of East European and Russian Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
• <>December 1998, “State, Nation and European Integration: Discourses on Difference in Romanian Politics”, paper presented at American Anthropological Association's 97^th Annual Meeting Population and the Anthropological Imagination, Invited Session: Culture as Entitlement: Navigating Political and Economic Fields in the Post-Welfare-State Europe, Philadelphia, USA
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• November 1998, “Old and New Strategies of Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe: the Case of the Hungarian Minority from Romania”, paper presented at the conference Constructing Identities: National Minorities in the 'New' Europe, The Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
• July 1998, „Fights over Symbols and Meanings in Ethnicized Elite Discourses”, paper presented at the Central European University's Summer School on cultural anthropology, Forms of Inclusions and Exclusions in a New Europe, Budapest, Ungaria
• May 1997, „Politics of Ethnic Identity in the Post-Socialist Romania”, paper presented at the Anthropological Research Seminar, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

List of publications

Personal volumes:

·        Diferenţa care contează. Diversitatea Social-Culturală prin Lentila Antropologiei Feministe (Difference Matters. Socio-Cultural Diversity through the Lenses of a Feminist Anthropology), Cluj: Desire, 2002

·        Talking Feminist Institutions. Interviews with Leading European Scholars, Cluj: Desire, 2002

·        Kísérletek kulturális elemzésre. Experimente în analiza culturalã. Experiments in Cultural Analysis, Cluj: EFES, 1997

·        Antropologia politicii identitare nationaliste (The Anthropology of Nationalist Identity Politics), Cluj: EFES, 1997

·        Feminista antropológia elvek és gyakorlatok között, egyetemi tankönyv (Feminist Anthropology Between Principles and Practices, university textbook), Cluj: Desire, 2006

·        Social Exclusion at the Crossroads of Gender, Ethnicity and Class – Excluderea socială la intersecţia dintre gen, etnicitate şi clasă, Cluj: EFES, 2006

·        Gen, Societate şi Cultură. Cursuri în Studii de Gen, Volum 1-3 (Gender, Society and Culture. Courses in Gender Studies), Cluj: Desire, 2004

·        Performing Identities. Renegotiating Socio-Cultural Identities in the Post-socialist Eastern Europe, Cluj: EFES, 2004

·        Breaking the Wall. Representing Anthropology and Anthropological Representations in Eastern Europe, Cluj: EFES, 2003

·        Prezenţe feminine. Studii despre femei în România (Female Presence. Women’s Studies in Romania), Cluj: Desire, 2002

·        Întâlniri multiple. Antropologi Occidentali în Europa de Est (Multiple Encounters. Western Anthropologists in Eastern Europe), Cluj: EFES, 2000

·        Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, Cluj: EFES, 1998

·        Women and Men in East European Transition, Cluj: EFES, 1997

Editing the volume:     

·        Femei şi bărbaţi în Clujul multietnic (Women and Men in the Multiethnic Cluj), Cluj: Desire, 2001

Articles in collective volumes:

• “‘Mi’ és ‘Ti’ - egymással szemben” (‘Us’ and ‘You’ - In Front of Each Other), In: Hát ide figyelj, édes fiam... Ifjúságszociológiai tanulmányok (Essays on the Sociology of Youth), Bucuresti: Albatros, 1989
• “Die Minderheiten und die Medien in Rumanien”, In: Minderheiten in Rumenien, Köln: Heinrich-Böll Stiftung, 1992
• “Meghitt párbeszéd” (Intimate Dialogue); “Az otthonosság feltételei” (The Conditions of Feeling at Home); “A többarcúság labirintusában” (The Multiple Meanings of Things); “Mellette vagy ellene?” (Pro or against it); “Szimbolikus kommunikációnk” (On Symbolic Communication); “Az elemek együttesétől az önszerveződésig” (From the Set of Elements to Self-Organizing), In: Kapcsolat. Környezet. Közösség (Relationships. Environment. Community), Budapest, 1992
• “Reflecţii filosofice asupra puterii” (Philosophical Reflections on Power), In: Dimensiunea Europeană (The European Dimension) Cluj-Napoca, 1994
• “Politics as a Symbolic Fight With and Over Nationalism. An anthropological analysis of the construction of politics in the context of the Romanian-Hungarian relationship”, In: Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. by O. Pecican, E. Magyari-Vincze, Cluj: Cluj University Press, 1996
• Co-authored the “Preface” (eds.), In: Women and Men in East European Transition, ed. by M. Feischmidt, E. Magyari-Vincze, V. Zentai, Cluj: EFES, 1997
• “Postfaţă. Către o antropologie critică a Europei de Est” (Forward. Towards a critical anthropology of Eastern Europe)” in E. Magyari-Vincze – C. Quigley – G. Troc (eds.): Întâlniri multiple. Antropologi Occidentali în Europa de Est (Multiple Encounters. Western Anthropologists in Eastern Europe), Cluj: EFES, 2000
• “Questioning the <Feminization of Poverty> in Romania”, in a study co-authored by N. Magyari, L. Popescu and T. Rotariu published in the volume Poverty, Ethnicity, and Gender in Eastern Europe During the Market Transition, edited by R.J. Emigh and I. Szelényi, Praeger, 2001
• “Regimurile de gen şi cetăţenia femeilor” (Gender Regimes and Women’s Citizenship), in Prezenţe feminine. Studii despre femei în România (Female Presence. Women’s Studies in Romania), edited by G. Cosma – E. Magyari-Vincze – O. Pecican, Cluj: Desire Press, 2002
• “Despre femei, şi nu numai. O introducere necesară la studiile despre femei în România” (About Women, but not Only. A Necessary Introduction to Women’s Studies in Romania), in Prezenţe feminine. Studii despre femei în România (Female Presence. Women’s Studies in Romania), Cluj: Desire Press, 2002
• “Reperele conceptuale şi metodologice ale cercetării <Condiţia femeilor şi bărbaţilor în Clujul multiethnic>” (The Theoretical and Methodological Background of the Research ‘Women’s and Men’s Condition in the Multiethnic Cluj), in Femei şi bărbaţi în Clujul multietnic (Women and Men in the Multiethnic Cluj), edited by E. Magyari-Vincze, volume I, Cluj: Desire Press, 2001
• “Note introductive la interviurile aprofundate despre viaţa femeilor şi bărbaţilor” (Introductory Notes to the In-Depth Interviews), in Femei şi bărbaţi în Clujul multietnic (Women and Men in the Multiethnic Cluj), edited by E. Magyari-Vincze, volume II, Desire Press, 2001
• Co-authored with N. Magyari “Note introductive la ancheta prin chestionar realizată despre condiţia femeilor şi bărbaţilor” (Introductory Notes to the Survey on Women’s and Men’s Condition in Cluj), in Femei şi bărbaţi în Clujul multietnic (Women and Men in the Multiethnic Cluj), edited by E. Magyari-Vincze volume I, Desire Press, 2001
• Introducing “Rolul femeilor în transgresarea graniţelor etnice” (Women’s Role in Transgressing Ethnic Boundaries), in Femei şi bărbaţi în Clujul multietnic, volume III, edited by E. Magyari-Vincze, Desire Press, 2001
• Presenting “Grupul Interdisciplinar pentru Studii de Gen” (Interdisciplinary Group for Gender Studies), in Lexicon Feminist (Feminist Lexicon), edited by Otilia Dragomir and Mihaela Miroiu, Iaşi: Polirom, 2002
• “Când diferenţele sunt (în)tre noi...”, în Olivia Toderean, ed. Itinerarii contestatare, Bucureşti: Politeia – SNSPA, 2002
• “Ordinea socială la răscrucea dintre etnicitate şi genul social” (The Social Order at the Crossroads of Ethnicity and Gender), in Cadru teoretic şi metodologic în studiul interculturalităţii (Theoretical and Methodological Background of Studying Interculturality), coordinated by Rudolf Poledna, Francois Ruegg şi Călin Rus, Cluj: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2002
• “Behind Translation as a Linguistic Issue”, in The Making of European Women’s Studies, ATHENA Advanced Thematic Publication, Volume IV, editat de Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht University Press, 2002
• “Am I that White? An Eastern Anthropologist on American Understandings of Multiculturalism”, in V. Anăstăsoaie - Cs. Könczei – E. Magyari-Vincze – O. Pecican (coords.): Breaking the Wall. Representing Anthropology and Anthropological Representations in Eastern Europe, EFES, 2003
• Co-author of the chapters “Paradigma feministă între critică şi afirmare” (The Feminist Paradigm between Criticism and Affirmation), and “Politica genizată” (Gendered Politics), in Gen, Societate şi Cultură. Cursuri în Studii de Gen (Gender, Society and Culture. Courses in Gender Studies), edited by E. Magyari-Vincze and Petruţa Mîndruţ, Cluj: Desire, 2004
• “The Persistence of Gender Inequality in Romania across Political Regimes”, in Performing Identities. Renegotiating Socio-Cultural Identities in the Post-socialist Eastern Europe, coordinated by E. Magyari-Vincze and Petruţa Mîndruţ,Cluj: EFES, 2004

• A környezetteremtő ember (Constructing environment), in Átmenetek. A mindennapi élet antropológiája 1991/1: 25-31
• Metszéspontok. Az antropológia és az ökológia találkozási pontjairól (Intersections. On the meeting points between ecology and cultural anthropology), in Liget. Irodalmi és ökológiai folyóirat, 1991/4: 96-101
• Kisebbségi intézményrendszerünk (Hungarian institutions in Romania), in Janus. A Janus Pannonius Egyetem társadalomtudományos folyóirata, 1991,
• Az antropológia kételyei és bizonyosságai (Dilemmas and Certitudes of Anthropology), in Átmenetek. A hétköznapi élet antropológiája, 1991/2
• A szöveg mint kultúra (Text as culture), in Korunk, 1993/1, 98-106
• A “Caritas” és a romániai átmenet (Caritas and the Romanian Transition; co-author Margit Feischmidt), in Replika, 1994/3-4
• Az erdélyi egyetem - szimbolikus mezőben (The University from Transylvania in a symbolic field, co-author Gál Ernő), in Korunk, 1995/4
• Understanding and Using Cultural Anthropology in the Post-Socialist Romania, in Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 1-2, 1996: 115-129
• Cadrul conceptual al analizei simbolice (The Conceptual Framework of Symbolic Analysis), in Caietele Tranziţiei, 1/ 1997, 61-65
• Relaţii interetnice de-a lungul istoriei în Transilvania Interethnic Relations in Transylvanian History, in Dialog Interetnic, 1997
• Tendinţe şi dileme ale dezvoltării instituţionale (Patterns and dilemmas of institutional development), in Revista 22, 1997
• Negocierea multiculturalismului (Negotiating Multiculturalism), in Caietele Tranziţiei, 1/ 1997
• State, Nation and European Integration: Discourses on Difference in Romanian Politics, in Caietele Tranziţiei, 2-3/1998-1999: 112-114
• Ethnography of Chicano Studies. Report on a Research in Progress, in Caietele Tranziţiei, 2-3/1998-1999: 196-204
• A kolozsvári egyetem és a romániai magyar identitás politikája (The University of Cluj and the Politics of Hungarian Identity from Romania), in Replika, 1999/4
• A patriarkális rend – alulról és felülről. A nőiség alanyi pozíciói és megélt tapasztalatai Romániában, in Korunk, 2004/4
• Le patriarcat d’en haut et d’en bas en Roumanie, in Nouvelles Questions Feministes, Postcommunisme: Genre et États en transition, 2004, Vol. 23, N°2, 29-49
• Gender, Ethnicity and the Construction of the Social Order. A View from Below on Romania, in Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures, Gender and Nation in South Eastern Europe, Vol. 14, 2005, 197-227

• “Romanian Gender Regimes and Women's Citizenship”, in the volume Gender and Citizenship: Contentions and Controversies in East-West Debates, edited by Joanna Regulska and Jasmina Lukic