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Summary

Katalin is a body scholar, researching the affective dimensions of power with respect to bodies, race, gender and nationalism. She employs artistic research methods to investigate diverse forms of embodiment and senses of belonging working across film, video art, installation, performance, cross-dressing and curation.

She joined Ã÷ÐÇ°ËØÔ University as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in 2021. As part of her Leverhulme research project entitled Affective whiteness: racializing Hungarian national identity Katalin produced the video installation on racial discomfort, which was staged at the Pratt Institute in NYC, at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa and at the University of Veracruz in Mexico; and , a short documentary, which was awarded an Honorary Mention by the Activists Without Borders Film Festival 2024 and selected for documentary film festivals in Italy, Romania, Hungary, the UK, and Brazil. She curated the event  a double film screening and panel discussion in London. 

After finishing her PhD in Visual Sociology, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the ERC funded research project at Goldsmiths, University of London. She held teaching positions at City and Goldsmiths universities.

Before her academic career, Katalin worked in the antiracist movement (, and ), and developed her art practice.

Katalin has staged a number of participatory and multimedia performances in Brazil, Bolivia, Denmark, Germany, South Africa, Mexico, the USA and the UK and curated the exhibitions  and

More on her artful sociological research can be found on her website:

Katalin is on the Board of the and on the Editorial Board of

Qualifications

PhD in Visual Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London

Foundation Diploma in Fine Art, Camberwell, University fo the Arts London

MSc in European Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science

LLM, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Pecs

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy