Curriculum Vitae
Personal data
Name
: Szőke Alexandra
Place and date of birth
: Budapest, March 28th,1980
Marital status
: married, one child
Contact
| E-mail |
|
szoke.alexandra(at)krtk.hu |
| E-mail |
|
szoke(kukac)rkk.hu |
Education and training
| 2004 | University of Miskolc, Cultural and Visual Anthropology Department — BA |
| 2005 | CEU — MA (Sociology, Social Anthropology) |
| 2012 | CEU — PhD (Sociology, Social Anthropology) |
Language skills
| German (reads) |
| French (reads) |
| English (writes, reads, lectures) |
Places of work and employment
| 2005—2012 | CEU — PhD |
| 2009—2012 | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology — PhD Researcher |
| 2012—2013 | Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna — Post-doctoral fellow |
| 2014—2015 | Centre of Migration Policy, Swansea University — Research assistant |
| 2017— | MTA Institute for Regional Studies — MTA premium post-doctoral fellow |
Awards
| 2017—2020 | Premium Post-doctoral fellowship of HAS |
| 2012—2013 | ERSTE Foundation Fellowship for Social Research |
| 2003—2004 | Scholarship of Hungarian Republic |
| 2003 | OTDK, 2nd place |
Research fields
| Social security and local state |
| Social policy and child welfare services |
| Anthropological study of public policy |
| Socio-spatial inequalities, social exclusion |
Publications
Schwarcz Gy.-Szőke A. 2017. Creating the State Locally through Welfare Provision: Two Mayors, Two Welfare Regimes in Rural Hungary. In: Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State, ed. by Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann. New York, Oxford: Berghahn
Szőke A. 2015. A ‘Road to work’? The reworking of deservedness, social citizenship and public work programmes in rural Hungary. Citizenship Studies 19. 6-7. pp. 734-750.
Szőke A. 2015. Review on Book by Fehérváry, Krisztina. (2013) Politics in Color and Concrete: Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. American Anthropologist 117(4):828-829
Schwarcz Gy.-Szőke A. 2014. Creating the State Locally through Welfare Provision: Two Mayors, Two Welfare Regimes in Rural Hungary. Social Analysis 58. 3. pp. 141-157.
Szőke A. 2013. Projecting the ‘disadvantaged’: project class, scale jumping and the creation of ruralities. In: Shaping Rural Areas in Europe. Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future, ed. by Luís Silva and Elisabete Figueiredo. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 75-95.
Thelen T.-Dorondel S.-Szőke A.-Vetters L. 2011. 'The Sleep has been rubbed from their Eyes': Social Citizenship and the Reproduction of Local Hierarchies in Rural Hungary and Romania. Citizenship Studies 15. 3-4. pp. 513-527.
Szőke A. 2008. Brits on the phone – Western workers and outsourcing multinationals in Prague. Migration Online, June 24 2008
Szőke A. 2008. Who is on the phone? Outsourced Britons in outsourced companies in Prague. (translated to Czech) A2 Czech Cultural Weekly, May 2008
Szőke A.-Simon V. 2007. “Kinek az, minek az...” A migráció hatásai egy Somogy megyei aprófaluban. In: Migráció és Turizmus. Migrációs folyamatok hatása a helyi társadalmak változásaira a mai Magyarországon, ed. by Zsuzsa Szarvas. Budapest: L’Harmattan, pp. 143-193.
Szőke A. 2007. The rural miracle? – The ‘1 Forint estate projects’ and local struggles with population decline and economic deterioration in the Hungarian countryside. Migration Online, March 1 2007
Szőke A. 2006. New forms of mobility among Western European retirees - German migrants in south-western Hungary. In: Migration Processes in Central and Eastern Europe: Unpacking the Diversity, ed. by Alice Szczepanikova, Marek Canek, Jan Grill. Multicultural Center Prague, pp. 42-47.
Szőke A. 2005. “Gyött-mentek” és őslakosok együttélése. Beköltözések és nyaralóvásárlások hatása egy aprófalu kapcsolathálójának alakulására. In: Utóparaszti hagyományok és modernizációs törekvések a magyar vidéken, ed. by Gyöngyi Schwarcz, Zsuzsa Szarvas and Miklós Szilágyi. Budapest: MTA Néprajzi Kutatóintézete; MTA Társadalomkutató Központ, pp. 265-277.