Abstract
The Introduction presents the origins of the new journal "Critical Romani Studies". It discusses why the editors founded a new journal. Finally, the paper presents the main features of the new journal.
Author Biographies
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Maria Bogdan, Media Theorist and Journalist, Visiting Researcher at CEU Romani Studies Program
Maria Bogdan’s main research interest is related to media representation and modern forms of racism. For her PhD thesis she has been focusing on the media representation of Roma in Hungary. She is a Fulbright Alumna and has done part of her PhD research at Columbia University. She also has worked as a researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and as an assistant lecturer at the University of Pécs. As a journalist, Bogdan has worked at different television and radio stations and newspapers across Hungary.
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Jekatyerina Dunajeva, Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Studies and Political Science, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Jekatyerina Dunajeva received her PhD at the University of Oregon. In her dissertation, she examined how schooling affected Roma identity formation over time in Hungary and Russia. Dr. Dunajeva’s research has
been published in several edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals. Her felds of research are Roma, political and ethnic identity, youth politics, and state- and nation-building. In addition to teaching at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Dr. Dunajeva collaborates with international research groups, working as a consultant and political analyst.
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Tímea Junghaus, Executive Director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture
Tímea Junghaus is an art historian and contemporary art curator. She has been the Executive Director of the Berlin-based European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture since its opening in 2017. Previously, Junghaus was a Research Fellow of the Working Group for Critical Teories at the Institute for Art History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2010–2017). She has researched and published extensively on the conjunctions of modern and contemporary art with critical theory, with particular reference to issues of cultural difference, colonialism, and minority representation. She is completing her PhD studies in Cultural Teory at Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest.
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Angéla Kóczé, Assistant Professor of Romani Studies and Academic Director of the Roma Graduate Preparation Program at Central European University
Angéla Kóczé is Assistant Professor of Romani Studies and Academic Director of the Roma Graduate Preparation Program at Central European University. In 2013–14, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the
Department of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was the principal investigator of a research project (2013–16) titled
Institutionalization of Romani Politics Afer 1989 in Hungary, funded by the Hungarian Social Research Fund. Her research focuses on the in tersections between gender, ethnicity and class as well as the social and legal inequalities faced by the Roma in various European countries. She has published several peer-reviewed academic articles and book chapters with various international presses including Palgrave Macmillan, Ashgate, and Central European University Press, as well as several thematic policy papers related to social inclusion, gender equality, social justice, and civil society. She currently is preparing a monograph on the political activism and social struggles of Romani women in post-socialist Europe, as well as an edited volume that takes stock of the contemporary situation and identity struggle of Europe’s Romani minority. In 2013, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. honored Kóczé with the Ion Ratiu Democracy Award for her interdisciplinary research approach, which combines community engagement and policymaking with in-depth participatory research on the situation of the Roma.
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Iulius Rostas, Chair of Romani Studies and Assistant Professor Central European University
Dr. Iulius Rostas is the Chair of Romani Studies/Assistant Professor at Central European University in Budapest. He was an Afliated Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies at CEU, Senior Fellow with the Open Society Foundations Roma Initiatives Ofce, and a Visiting Lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest. Dr. Rostas is the editor of Ten Years Afer: A History of Roma School Desegregation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEU
Press, 2012), and in 2011 he published Social Inclusion or Exclusion: Te Rights of Persons Living with HIV in Moldova (Cartier Publishing). His upcoming book, Ethnicity, Power and Inclusion: Why Policies Towards Roma
in Europe Are Failing, will be published by CEU Press in 2018.
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Márton Rövid, Post-doctoral Fellow, Central European University
Márton Rövid is an activist-scholar, a dedicated teacher, and an experienced policy analyst. He holds a PhD in political science from Central European University. Currently, he is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics and Business at CEU, and a teacher at the Jesuit Roma College in Hungary. His most recent publication is “Roma and the Politics of Double Discourse in Contemporary Europe” (with Angéla Kóczé, Identities, 2017). Between 2012 and 2015, as a research and advocacy ofcer at the Decade of Roma Inclusion Secretariat, he coordinated the monitoring of Roma policies in 16 countries. His research interests include: theories of cosmopolitan democracy, global civil society, transnational social movements, and racialization in post-communist contexts.
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Marek Szilvasi, Program Officer, Public Health Program, Open Society Foundations
Dr. Marek Szilvasi works for the Public Health Program of the Open Society Foundations, where he focuses on health law and equality. He also teaches at the Institute of Politics and International Studies of the Eötvös Lóránd University in Budapest. Dr. Szilvasi holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Aberdeen. In 2017 he was awarded the Martin Alexandersson Research Scholarship of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the CAS-SEE/University of Rijeka Post-doctoral Fellowship.
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