Violetta Zentai
Research Fellow
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Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, Rutgers University (2001) Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements:
Viola Zentai is a cultural anthropologist with a PhD from Rutgers University in the United States. She has been the director of the Center for Policy Studies at Central European University since September 2003. Viola Zentai is engaged in research focusing on racial and gender equality, welfare debates, post-socialist economic transformation, and democratic governance and decentralization. She coordinated a recently completed collaborative research project on “Ethnic Differences in Education and Diverging Prospects for Urban Youth in an enlarged Europe (EDUMIGROM),” funded by the European Commission’s 7th Framework Program. She also led the Hungarian research team in “Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies (QUING)”, a 4.5 year project funded through the 6th Framework Program of the European Commission, concluded in early 2011. She acts as the Hungarian team leader of another major 4-year research initiative launched in 2011 and funded by the 7th Framework Program on “Employment 2025: How Multiple Transitions Will Affect the European Labor Market (NEUJOBS). ” She is a recurring faculty member at CEU’s Sociology and Social Anthropology Department as well as the Department of Public Policy.
Professor Zentai is active in the Hungarian women’s movement; she is the spokesperson for the NGO MONA (Foundation for the Women of Hungary) and is a member of the Expert Forum of the European Gender Institute.
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equality policies
structural fund monitoring
gender and politics
anthropology of postsocialism
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sociology Courses taught by Violetta Zentai
Projects with involvement of Violetta Zentai
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Publications
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Faces of Local Democracy In LGI Books, Edited by Viola Zentai and Gabor Soós. Budapest: Local Government and Public Reform Initiative, OSI, 2005.
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Men and Women in East European Transition, Edited by Viola Zentai, Margit Feischmidt and Enikő Magyari-Vincze. Cluj Napoca: EFES, 1997.
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Politikai antropológia. Szöveggyűjtemény. (Political Anthropology. A Reader), Edited by Viola Zentai. Budapest: Láthatatlan Kollégium-Osiris, 1997.
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"How French are the French Multinational Companies in Hungary?" In Globalizing employment relations : multinational firms and Central and Eastern Europe transitions, edited by Sylvie Contrepois and Violaine Delteil, 134-150. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010.
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"The Pregnant Worker and Caring Mother. Family Policies Across Europe." In In Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality, 109-140. Budapest: CEU Press, 2007.
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"National report on Hungary." In Women, Integration and Prison, edited by Marta Cruells and Noelia Igareda, 135-158. Barcelona: Aurea Editores, 2005.
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"From Civil Society to Policy Research. The Case of the Soros Network and Its Roma Policies." In Bridges Across Boundaries: Global Knowledge Networks and International Development, edited by Diane Stone and Simon Maxwell, 168-184. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
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"Introduction." In Reshaping Globalization. Multilateral Dialogues and New Policy Initiatives. , edited by Andrea Krizsan and Viola Zentai, 17-40. CPS Publications. Budapest: CEU Press, 2003.
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"Átkelés a nyitott társadalomba (Trespass to an Open Society)." In Zárva várt Nyugat (Long-Awaited Encounters with the West), edited by J. M. Kovács, 383-406. Budapest: Sik Kiado, 2002.
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"Loss or Overproduction of Culture." In Die Wende als Wende : Orientierungen Europäischer Ethnologien nach 1989, edited by Herbert Nikitsch, Peter Niedermüller and Konrad Köstlin, 110-121. Veroffentlichungen de Institut für Europaische Ethnologie . Vienna: Universitat Wien, 2002.
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"Lessons on Successful Reform Management." In Mastering Decentralization and Public Administration Reform in CEE, edited by Gabor Peteri, 13-30. Budapest: Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative, OSI, 2002.
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"Politikai antropológia: a politika antropológiája (Political Anthropology: The Anthropology of Politics)." In Politikai antropológia. Szöveggyűjtemény., 9-36. Budapest: Láthatatlan Kollégium-Osiris, 1997.
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"Environmental Policy in Hungary." In Environmental Policies in East and West, 213-235. London: Taylor Graham, 1987.
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"Negotiating Culture of Capitalism in Hungary." In "Politics of Culture: East and West". Institute for Human Science, Vienna: Institute for Human Science, Vienna., 1999.
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"The West Envisions the West. The Portrait of the Leading Progressive Hungarian Literary Journal in the Inter-War Period." In CCACC seminar. Rutgers University, 1993.
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Partszélről a fősodorba. Gender mainstreaming kézikönyv. (From the Sidelines to the Mainstream. Gender Mainstreaming Manual), Edited by Andrea Krizsan. Budapest, Hungary: Ministry for Social and Labor Affair, 2009.
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Városon innen, falun túl... (Not Yet a Town, No Longer a Village. A Monograph), Edited by K. Kovács and Viola Zentai., 1988.
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Report analysing intersectionality in gender equality policies for Hungary and the EU In QUING Project. Budapest: Central European University, 2008.
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Lokális környezetvédelmi konfliktusok (Local Environmental Conflicts). Budapest: Budapest University of Economics, 1989.
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Comparative Report on Educational Policies for Inclusion In EDUMIGROM Comparative Papers. Budapest: Central European University, Center for Policy Studies, 2009.
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From Losers and Winners to Victims and Perpetrators. Vienna: Institute for Human Sciences, 1999.
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