Alexandra Kowalski
Assistant Professor
Director, One Year MA Program
Building:
Zrinyi u. 14 Room:
407A Phone number:
+36-1 327 3000 x2603 Qualifications:
Ph.D. (2007) in Sociology, New York University
M.A. (2001) in Sociology, New York University
M.A. (1994) in Philosophy and Social Science Epistemology, La Sorbonne-Paris IV
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements:
Alexandra Kowalski joined the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology as an Assistant Professor in 2007-8 after receiving a PhD in Sociology from New York University. A former Florence Gould Fellow (Columbia University Center for European Studies), Alexandra explored the contemporary history of historic conservation in Western Europe in her doctoral thesis, with particular focus on France. Her current teaching and research interests center on the comparative history of cultural institutions such as heritage, museums, archives, and schools, and, more broadly, on the transformations of national states and politics in the post-national era. Alexandra currently teaches social theory, state theory and cultural sociology.
Academic/research topics:
Comparative political history; comparative cultural history; cultural policy and cultural institutions; knowledge
science and technology; social theory; epistemology and interdisciplinary methods
Academic/Research Areas:
Sociology and Social Anthropology Courses taught by Alexandra Kowalski
| Contemporary Social Theory | 2011/2012 |
| Cultural Goods | 2011/2012 |
| Contemporary Social Theory | 2011/2012 |
| States of Globalization | 2011/2012 |
| States of Globalization | 2011/2012 |
| Cultural Goods |
Publications
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"When Cultural Capitalization Became Global Practice: The 1972 World Heritage Convention." In The Cultural Wealth of Nations, 73-89. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2011.
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"State power as field work : culture and practice in the French survey of historic landmarks." In Practicing culture, edited by R. Sennett and C. Calhoun, 82-104. London, New York: Routledge, 2007.
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"Mise en place institutionelle et territoriale de l’Inventaire : une conquête administrative et culturelle." In André Malraux et l’Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France : journée d’études, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 23 mai 2003. Paris: Amitiés internationales André Malraux., France. Ministère de la culture. Comité d'histoire, 2004.
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"Reflexive Habits: Dating and Rationalised Conduct in New York and Berlin." The Sociological Review Forthcoming (2012).
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