Profile
Vir谩g Moln谩r received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University and is currently Associate Professor of at the 麻豆传媒色情片 for Social Research. Her research explores the intersections of culture, politics, social change and knowledge production with special focus on urban culture and transformations of the built environment. She has written about the relationship between architecture and state formation in socialist and postsocialist Eastern Europe, the post-1989 reconstruction of Berlin, and the new housing landscape of postsocialist cities.
Her book, , has been published by Routledge and received the Mary Douglas Prize for the Best Book in the Sociology of Culture from the American Sociological Association in 2014. Her work has also appeared in the American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Urban Studies. She has been a visiting fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship.
She is currently working on a book, Marketing Radicalism: The Cultural Production of Populism in Contemporary Hungary, as well as projects听examining the impact of new communications technologies on the urban public sphere through a comparative study of the street art scene in New York, Berlin and Budapest; and the politics of urban rodent control.
Degrees Held
PhD 2005, Princeton University
Recent Publications
Book:
2013 -听. Architext Series. Abingdon, UK and New York: Routledge
鈥 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association, 2014听
Book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles:
2023 -听 Comparative Studies in Society and History, 65 (3): 557-586
2022 - 鈥淭he Pandemic Economy of Face Masks: From Critical Shortage to Fashion Accessory and Political Statement鈥 pp. 405-433 in Pandemic Exposures: Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus edited by Marion Fourcade and Didier Fassin. Chicago: Hau/University of Chicago
2021 - 鈥溾 European Journal of Sociology/ Archives Europ茅ennes de Sociologie 62(1): 71-103, (with Karolina Koziura and Franziska K枚nig Paratore)听 听
2021 - 鈥.鈥 East European Politics Society and Culture 35 (4): 948-974
2018 - , Poetics 71: 43-54
2017 - 鈥溾澨Public Culture听29 (2): 385-414.
2017 - 鈥淭he Mythical Power of Everyday Objects: the Material Culture of Radical Nationalism in Postsocialist Hungary鈥 pp.147-170 in听, edited by Genevi猫ve Zubrzycki Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
2016 - Qualitative Sociology, 39 (2): 205-210
2016 - Nations and Nationalism, 22 (1): 165-185
2014 - "Reframing Public Space Through Digital Mobilization: Flash Mobs and Contemporary Urban Youth Culture.鈥 Space and Culture, 17 (1): 43-58
2012 - 鈥淐ollective Memory Meets Organizational Identity: Remembering to Forget in a Firm鈥檚 Rhetorical History.鈥 Academy of Management Journal 55 (3): 515-540 (with Michel Anteby)
2010 - 听鈥淭he Cultural Production of Locality: Reclaiming the 鈥楨uropean City鈥 in Post-Wall Berlin.鈥 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 34 (2): 281-309
Performances and Appearances
Recent talks:
鈥淏udapest, the Populist City: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Imperial Nostalgia鈥, Keynote speech at Authoritarian Urbanism: Global Manifestations, Knowledge Exchange, and Contestation conference, Bauhaus University-Weimar, November 9-11, 2023
鈥淔rom Home to the Homeland: Heritage Tourism Without Borders.鈥 Department of History and Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, June 9, 2023
Research Interests
Urban sociology, comparative historical sociology, sociology of culture and knowledge, economic sociology, political sociology, Eastern Europe
Awards And Honors
Professor of Cultural Sociology, University of Amsterdam, 2021/22
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton 2019
Berlin Prize/Axel Springer Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin, 2017
ACLS Fellowship, 2016
Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book, Sociology of Culture Section, American Sociological Association, 2014
EURIAS Junior Fellowship to the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, 2012
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, 2011
ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award, "The Great Budapest Rat Massacre: A Case Study in Urban Public Health", 2007听
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, 2006
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