Participating Scholars

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Borbala, Juhasz
1992 MA in English and history, historian, writing her PhD at CEU, Budapest in women's history. Her main topics are Women and the Hungarian revolution of 1956, Women and communism. She uses the method of oral history.

Capussotti, Enrica
Co-ordinator of the research project Gender relationships in Europe at the turn of the millennium: Women as subjects in migration and marriage (GRINE), an international research of oral history founded by the Fifth Framework Programme - EC.

She obtained her Ph.D. at the History Department of the IUE with a research on the representation of youth and youth culture in Italy during the fifties. She is working in collaboration with the Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, at the research National identities, migration and European integration in Italy and Spain, focusing on the cultural and discursive aspects of migration. Her main interests are in the field of cultural history, working particularly with oral sources, with films and images.

Last publications are on refugees from Kosovo in Italy, on consumption and youth in historical perspectives, on young women and modernization in Italy after WWII.

Conradsen, Inger Marie
Inger Marie Conradsen graduated in law from the University of Copenhagen in 1991 and continued her studies at the University of Edinburgh where she specialised in medical jurisprudence and legal theory leading to a LL.M.-degree in 1992. From 1993-96 she was a researcher at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence where she worked on a Ph.D.-thesis on the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies. The thesis is currently being assessed.

She has worked six months at the Centre for women studies in the social and legal sciences at the University of Copenhagen where she studied the legal implications of testing pregnant women for HIV-infection. In order to participate in GRINE she has leave of absence from the Danish Ministry of Health where she worked as head of section for five years with among other things patients' rights and the prevention of drug abuse.

She has published on HIV-testing and assisted reproductive technologies.

Lyon, Dawn
Co-ordinator of the Gender Studies Programme, RSC, since its establishment in October 2000; Research Associate on GRINE, located within Gender Programme; part-time professor, since 1999, New York University (Florence), teaching history of gender relations in 20th century Europe.

Previous employment at Paris V, VUB-Brussels, Birmingham and Loughborough universities, UK. Education in UK (BSc in Sociology/French, Aston; MA in Women's Studies, Warwick) and at EUI (PhD in Sociology - defence pending).

PhD work in sociology of careers of men and women in high level positions in business and politics in Britain, Belgium and France. Research combines survey data with narrative interviews, analysing career patterns, frames of meaning, and accounts of success. Participant in International Comparative Leadership Study, 1995-2000, and in Vianello, Mino and Gwen Moore (eds) 2000, Gendering Elites, Economic and Political Leadership in 27 Industrialised Countries, Basingstoke: Macmillan. Co-editor (with Luisa Passerini and Liana Borghi) of Gender Studies in Europe (EUI, 2002).

Petö, Andrea
She studied history (MA in 1987) and sociology (MA in 1988), holding Ph.D. Summa cum laude, in Contemporary history, from Eötvös University.
She has done extensive research in Oxford, in Freiburg and in Vienna at the Institute of Human Sciences (IWM), University of Toronto and was a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) in 2001/2002. She has been lecturing in different higher educational institutions on post W.W.II Central European history, oral history and on women's history in Vienna, Ljubjana, Utrecht, Baku, Kishinau, Jerevan, and actively took part in the institutionalising women's studies in Hungary and in Eastern Europe. She was an assistant professor at the Central European University, Budapest 1991-2000. Presently she is and an associate professor at University of Miskolc, Hungary and a visiting professor at ELTE Ethnic and Minority Studies, Budapest.

She published extensively on post W.W.II women's history, theoretical problems of gender relations, transition and history of communism in different prestigious scientific journals and books in English, Bulgarian, German, Russian, Croatian, Polish, Serbian and in Hungarian.

Her first monograph: Nõhistóriák. A politizáló magyar nõk története (1945-1951) was published in Budapest in 1998 by Seneca and it is forthcoming in English by Columbia University Press/East European Monographs as Women in Hungarian Politics 1945-1951. She wrote the biography of Rajk Júlia (Balassi, Budapest, 2001) in the series "Feminism and History", she is editing.

She edited two volumes in Hungarian, six volumes in English, one in Russian and she serves on the board of several journals in the field of women's history (Gender and History, Clio) and as an associate editor of Feminist Europe. The Review of Books. Presently she is working on gender and political conservativism and also as a consultant for the Open Society Institute, New York on oral history projects in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. She is serving as President of the Feminist Section of the Hungarian Sociological Association, served in the CEU Senate 1998-2000.