Professional Curriculum Vitae
Name László Kürti
Year of birth: 1953
Qualification(s): 1989 Phd, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Current Job
Position: Professor, Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Miskolc, Hungary
Teaching activities (list of subjects taught, time spent in education):
Full time teaching BA and MA level students
1988-2017 Department of Political Science, University of Miskolc
1995-1998 Department of Political Science, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1992-1994 Fulbright Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1991-1992 Visiting Professor, Institute of Sociology, Babes- Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
research and teaching-
1986-1990 Assistant Professor, Department of
Anthropology, The American University, Washington DC, USA
Present: full time undergraduate and graduate teaching Political Anthropology, English for Social Science Majors, Political Culture, 20th Century Political Culture in
Hungary, Media and local community, Advanced scholarly writing
Teaching, field work research techniques, archival research experiences (continuous)
Professional, scientific (artistic) work of the last 5 years. (List of the most important 5 publications related to the subject (s) taught):
2002 Youth and the State in Hungary: Capitalism, Communism and Class, London: Pluto Press.
2004 Working Images, London: Routlege (co-editor with S. Pink and A. Afonso).
2009 Postsocialist Europe: Anthropological perspectives from home, European Association of Social Anthropology Series 10, co-editor with P. Skalnik, (Berghahn Books, Oxford-New York)
2011 Every Day's a Festival!: Diversity on Show. (co- editor with Susanne Küchler, László Kürti & Hisham Elkadi). Oxford: Sean Kingston Publisher
2019 Lajosmizse: falu, puszta, község, város. I-II.
Lajosmizse: Mizsetáp.
Scientific / professional activities:
Currently serving on the international editorial boards:
- Visual Studies
(http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?sho w=editorialBoard&journalCode=rvst20)
- Region: Regional Studies on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/585#)
- AnthroVision (https://anthrovision.revues.org/74) - Urbanities (https://www.anthrojournal-
urbanities.com/about-the-journal/editorial-board/) - President, Local History and Cultural Association of Lajosmizse, 2019-present
Membership in professional organisations:
American Anthropological Association
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Rural History Organisation
Kriza János Ethnographic Society, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Miskolc, 2019. November 28.
