Andrea Peto

Andrea PETŐ is a Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna, Austria, a Doctor of Science of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2018 she was awarded the 2018 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values and 2022 University of Oslo Human Rights Award. In 2005, she was awarded the Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary by the  President of the Hungarian Republic and the Bolyai Prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006. She is Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Her works have appeared in 24 different languages. She has also been a guest professor at the universities of Toronto, Buenos Aires, Lviv, Novi Sad, Stockholm and Frankfurt. Her books include: Women in Hungarian Politics 1945-1951 (Columbia University Press/East European Monographs New York, 2003), Geschlecht, Politik und Stalinismus in Ungarn. Eine Biographie von Júlia Rajk. Studien zur Geschichte Ungarns, Bd. 12. (Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, 2007) and together with Ildikó Barna, Political Justice in Budapest after WWII (Politikai igazságszolgáltatás a II. világháború utáni Budapesten. Gondolat, Budapest, 2012 and 2015 by CEU Press), Women of the Arrow Cross Party (Palgrave, 2020). She co-edited with Ayse Gül Altinay: Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories. Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence, Routledge, 2016. She serves as an associate editor for the European Journal of Women’s Studies and editor-in-chief of East European Holocaust Studies.
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