Éva Fodor

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Associate Professor
Academic Director, CEU Institute for Advanced Study
Academic Director, Roma Access Program
Department of Gender Studies
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Zrinyi u. 14
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room 507/B
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(36-1) 327-3000 ext. 2077, Fax: (36-1) 327-3296
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Qualifications: 
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997.
B.A. in English, History, and Sociology, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, 1990.
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements: 

Areas of research interest: gender inequality, work, poverty, welfare states

Selected Publications:

Christy Glass and Eva Fodor. 2011.  “Public Maternalism Goes to Market: Recruitment, Promotion and Hiring in Hungary.” Gender &Society, 25, 1 (February) 5-26.

Eva Fodor, Linda Lane, Joop Schippers and Tanja van der Lippe.  2011.  “Chapter 9: Gender Differences in Quality of Life.”  in Quality of Life and Work in Europe: Theory, Practice, Policy. Edited by Margareta Back-Wicklung, Tanja van der Lippe, Laura den Dulk and Anneke Doornie-Huskies. Palgrave, London.

Eva Fodor and Aniko Balogh. 2010. “Back to the Kitchen: Gender Role Attitudes in 13 East European Countries.” Journal of Family Research, special issue.

Eva Fodor and Eszter Varsa. 2009.  “At the Crossroads of East an West: Gender Studies in Hungary”“ in Christine Bose and Minjeong Kim (eds). Global Persepctives on Gender Research: Transnational Perspectives. New York, London: Routledge. 

Eva Fodor. 2009.  “Women and Political Engagement in East Central Europe” pp. 112-129, in Anne Marie Goetz (ed.) Governing Women: Women’s Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform. New York, London: Routledge.

Christy Glass and Eva Fodor. 2007. “From Public to Private Maternalism? Gender and Welfare in Poland and Hungary after 1989” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and and Society, 14:323-350. 

Eva Fodor. 2006. “A Different Type of Gender Gap: How Women and Men Experience Poverty.” East European Politics and Societies. Vol 11, 3 (Fall): 470-500. 

Eva Fodor. 2004.  “The State Socialist Emancipation Project: Gender Inequality in Hungary and Austria.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 29 (3) 783-815. 

Eva Fodor. 2002.  Working Difference: Women’s Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945-1995. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 

“Gender and the Experience of Poverty in Eastern Europe and Russia After 1989.” A special issue of the journal Communist and Post-Communist Studies. (December 2002:35)

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Academic/research topics: 
gender
social inequalities
welfare states
Academic/Research Areas: 
Gender Studies
Sociology and Social Anthropology

Publications

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Cazes, S., M. Fortuny, C. Dussart, É. Fodor, Y. Ghellab, and L. Youngs. Bucharest process. Brussels: Council of Europe, 2007.
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Fodor, É., and United Nations Research Institute Social for Development. Occasional Paper Gender Policy. Vol. 3. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2005.
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Pollert, A., and É. Fodor. Working Conditions and Gender in an Enlarged Europe. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communitie, 2005.
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Fodor, É.. Comparative and international working-class history. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.
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Book Chapter
Fodor, É.. "Women and political engagement in East-Central Europe." In Governing women : women's political effectiveness in contexts of democratization and governance reform, edited by A. M. Goetz, 112-128. Vol. 5. Routledge/UNRISD research in gender and development 5. New York: Routledge, 2009.
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Fodor, É., and E. Varsa. "At the Crossroads of "East" and "West" : Gender Studies in Hungary." In Global gender research : transnational perspectives, edited by C. E. Bose and M. Kim, 290-307. Perspectives on gender. New York: Routledge, 2009.
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Fodor, É.. "Preface." In The story behind the numbers : women and employment in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Commonwealth of Independent States, edited by UNIFEM and G. Jacobs, 6. UNIFEM publication. Bratislava: United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006.
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Fodor, É.. "Ungarn : Vorzeige-Parlamentarierinnen und Kleinstadt-Bürgermeisterinnen : die Partizipation von Frauen in der ungarischen Politik seit 1990." In Handbuch politische Partizipation von Frauen in Europa : Die Beitrittsstaaten, edited by B. Hoecker and G. Fuchs, 147-162. Vol. 2. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2004.
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Emigh, R. J., É. Fodor, and I. Szelényi. "The Racialization and Feminization of Poverty?" In Poverty, ethnicity, and gender in Eastern Europe during the market transition, edited by J. R. Emigh and I. Szelényi, 1-32. Westport: Praeger, 2001.
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Fodor, É.. "The Political Woman? Women in Politics in Hungary 1992." In Women in the politics of postcommunist Eastern Europe, edited by M. Rueschemeyer, 142-167. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
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Fodor, É.. "Nowe elity kulturalne i polityczne." In Elity w Polsce, w Rosji i na Węgrzech : wymiana czy reprodukcja?, edited by I. Szelényi, D. J. Treiman and E. Wnuk-Lipiński, 159-185. Warszawa: Institut Studiów Politycznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1995.
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Fodor, É.. "The Political Woman? Women in Politics in Hungary 1992." In Women in the politics of postcommunist Eastern Europe, edited by M. Rueschemeyer, 171-199. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.
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Journal Article
Glass, C., and É. Fodor. "From Public to Private Maternalism? Gender and Welfare in Poland and Hungary after 1989." Social Politics 14, no. 3 (2007): 323-350.
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Fodor, É.. "A Different Type of Gender Gap : How Women and Men Experience Poverty." East European politics and societies 20, no. 1 (2006): 14-39.
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Fodor, É.. "A nemek esélyegyenlősége – Közép-Európa és az EU." Az elemző 2, no. 2 (2006): 107-124.
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Fodor, É.. "Gender equality – Central Europe and the EU." The Analyst 2, no. 2 (2006).
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Fodor, É.. "The State Socialist Emancipation Project : Gender Inequality in Workplace Authority in Hungary and Austria." Signs : journal of women in culture and society 29, no. 3 (2004): 783-813.
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Fodor, É.. "A női emancipáció Magyarországon és Ausztriában, 1972–1992." Szociológiai Szemle 13, no. 1 (2003): 28-54.
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Fodor, É., C. Glass, J. Kawachi, and L. Popescu. "Family policies and gender in Hungary, Poland, and Romania." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 35, no. 4 (2002): 475-490.
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Fodor, É.. "Létezik-e kritikus társadalomtudomány 1989 után? Amerikai kritika magyar társadalmi viszonyokat elemző művekről." Buksz 14, no. 1 (2002): 91-93.
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Fodor, É.. "Gender and the experience of poverty in Eastern Europe and Russia after 1989." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 35, no. 4 (2002): 369-382.
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Fodor, É.. "Smiling Women and Fighting Men : The Gender of the Communist Subject in State Socialist Hungary." Gender and Society 16, no. 2 (2002): 240-263.
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Fodor, É.. "A szegénység elnőiesedése hat volt államszocialista országban." Szociológiai szemle 11, no. 4 (2001): 96-113.
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Fodor, É.. "The Feminization of Poverty in Six Post-State Socialist Societies." Review of Sociology of the Hungarian Sociological Association 7, no. 2 (2001): 91-108.
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van der Lippe, T., and É. Fodor. "Changes in Gender Inequality in Six Eastern European Countries." Acta Sociologica 41, no. 2 (1998): 131-149.
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Szelény, I., É. Fodor, and E. Hanley. "Left Turn in Post-Communist Politics : Bringing Class Back In?" East European politics and societies 11, no. 1 (1997): 190-224.
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Fodor, É.. "Gender in Transition : Unemployment in Hungary, Poland and Slovakia." East European politics and societies 11, no. 3 (1997): 470-500.
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Fodor, É., E. Hanley, and I. Szelényi. "Baloldali fordulat a volt szocialista országokban – újjáéled-e az osztályszemlélet?" Eszmélet 8, no. 29 (1996): 51-89.
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Treiman, D. J., M. McKeever, and É. Fodor. "Racial Differences in Occupational Status and Income in South Africa, 1980 and 1991." Demography 33, no. 1 (1996): 111-132.
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Fodor, É., E. Wnuk-Lipiński, and N. Yershova. "The New Political and Cultural Elite." Theory and Society 24, no. 5 (1995): 783-800.
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Miscellaneous
Fodor, É.. Book review : The Red Riviera : Gender, Tourism, and Postcolonialism on the Black Sea., 2008.
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Fodor, É.. Book review : Postsocialism : Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe., 2008.
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Fodor, É.. Book review : Nation and Gender in Contemporary Europe., 2007.
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Fodor, É.. Gender mainstreaming and its consequences in the European Union., 2006.
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Fodor, É., and UNIFEM. The story behind the numbers : women and employment in Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Commonwealth of Independent States In UNIFEM publication, Edited by G. Jacobs. Bratislava: United Nations Development Fund for Women, 2006.
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Fodor, É.. Book review : Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism : The Czech Republic after Communism., 2005.
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Fodor, É.. Book review : Women's Access to Political Power in Post-Communist Europe., 2005.
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Fodor, É.. Book review : Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition : Nation Building, Economic Survival and Civil Activism., 2005.
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Fodor, É.. Book review : Poverty in America : A Handbook., 2004.
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Fodor, É.. Book review : Inventing the Needy : Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary., 2003.
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Fodor, É.. Book review : Inventing the Needy : Gender and the Politics of Welfare in Hungary., 2003.
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Fodor, É.. Book review : Keleten? Nyugaton? Susan Gal és Gail Kligman könyveiről., 2002.
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Emigh, R. J., É. Fodor, and I. Szelényi. The Racialization and Feminization of Poverty During the Market Transition in the Central and Southern Europe. Badia Fiesolana: European University Institute, 1999.
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Szelényi, I., S. Szelényi, and É. Fodor. Changing patterns of elite recruitment in post-communist transformation : first results from the Hungarian study. Ithaca: Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University, 1994.
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Thesis
Fodor, É.. Power, patriarchy, and paternalism : an examination of the gendered nature of state socialist authority. Los Angeles: University of California, 1997.
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