Book:
Symbolic Traces of Communist Legacy in Post-Socialist Hungary: Experiences of a generation that lived during the Socialist era, Leiden: Brill Press (September 2016). Link to Brill catalog: https://brill.com/view/title/33467?rskey=Sbcexk&result=1
Chapter 3: Globalized Bonds: Gift Exchange, Liminality, and Embodiment
Chapter 4 (PART I): Reorganizing Healthcare and a Mystification of the Body
Chapter 4 (PART II): Reorganizing Healthcare and a Mystification of the Body
A Ghost in the City: Migratory Experiences and Constructions of Identity in Post Socialist Hungary. Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Publishers, 2001.
Scholarly Articles:
“Ritualization of Ethno-nationalism: A Textual Analysis of a Hungarian Corpus Christi Procession” Anthropos, issue 112 (1), 2017. (On JSTOR) http://www.anthropos.eu/anthropos/journal/abstracts/1121/03.php
“Washing Machine Races, Gulag Pizza, and McLenin Kitsch-ifcation in Post-Socialist Hungary,” 2017 Ethnos, 82:2, 331-365, DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2015.1080745 (On Ebsco)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00141844.2015.1080745
“Turkey Backbones and Chicken Gizzards: Women’s Roles in Post Socialist Hungary,” in Food and Foodways, 18:1-28, 2010.  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07409710.2010.529018#preview
“Time, Ritual, and Post Socialist Change in Hungary” in Omertaa: Journal for Applied Anthropology, a special issue devoted to constructions of “time.” Volume 4, 2008. (www.Omertaa.org). http://www.omertaa.org/archive/omertaa0046.pdf
“Return Migration to Post Socialist Hungary: Identity Re-construction, Anxiety, and Resolution.” Proteus: A Journal of Ideas. Special Issue on “Interpreting Lives: Personal Narratives and Biographies.” Shippensburg University 20.2 (2003): 69-74.
“Photomontage with Texts.” Special Issue on “Women Writing Culture: Another Telling of the Story of American Anthropology,” Ruth Behar, Ed. Critique of Anthropology: A Journal for the Critical Reconstruction of Anthropology. Sage Publications 13.4 (1993): 327-33. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/67589/10.1177_0308275X9301300402.pdf?sequence=2
“The Cholos of East Los Angeles: Using Ethnic Identity to Cope with Hegemony.” Crosscurrents: The Journal of Graduate Research in Anthropology, Rutgers University 5 (1992): 59-80.
Chapters/Sections in Books:
“Talking Back: Reflections of a Researcher’s Experience and Identity Construction” in Identity and Self Respect. Edited by Istvan Bujalos. Debrecen University Press, (December, 2015). ISSN 2063-0042, ISBN 978-963-318-521-6  https://dupress.unideb.hu/hu/termek/identity-and-self-respect/
“Mnemonic Devices as a Supplemental Aid for Teaching Kinship Concepts and Terms.” In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology. P.C. Rice and D.W. McCurdy, Eds. Uppersaddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
“Leaving Socialist Hungary. Migratory Experiences And Constructions of Identity.” Beginnings and Ends of Emigration. Life without Borders in the Contemporary World. A Collection of Scholarly Essays. Dalia Kuiziniene, Editor. Vilnius : Versus Aureus 2005. ISBN 9955-601-50-7
“Mock Public Hearing on Tragedy in the Amazon: Yanomami Voices, Academic Controversy, and the Ethics of Research.” In Strategies in Teaching Anthropology. P.C. Rice and D.W. McCurdy, Eds. Uppersaddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004.
Other
Edited OER Textbook: Anthropology: The Study of Humankind. I have produced study guides and assembled an Open Educational Resource textbook using creative commons materials and my own material for the open lab that includes study questions, key terms, and study tips. I received a fellowship in the Spring 2017 to develop an OER textbook which I continually update to include newer information, and check that links to the websites still work.
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/anth-1101-introduction-to-anthropology-spring-2017/
Once at the course site, students can access the file “reading assignments” to see the chapters:
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/popefischeranth1101sp2017/
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Invited Conferences/Talks:
•“Talking Back: Reflections of a researcher’s experience and Identity construction” The Identity and Self Respect Conference, Debrecen, Hungary. June 6-8, 2013. http://nagyalma.hu/self-respect/nggallery/slideshow/
•“City Tech Scholars Exchange” 2015-2016, Tuesday March 22, 2016. Presentation of my research: “Elderly Hungarian Women’s Reinterpretation of Post-Socialist Change.”
Peer Reviewed Conferences:
“Struggling with the Complexities of Societal Change: Life Story Memories of the Oppressive Rákosi Era in Hungary”
The 118th Annual American Anthropology Association’s Meetings, Vancouver Canada, November 22-24, 2019. Presented paper.
And Chaired Panel. Program for Vancouver meetings, see panel 5-0200 “Negotiating Difficult Pasts in the European Context on page 197.https://www.eventscribe.com/2019/AAA/assets/pdf/AAA2019PROGRAMBOOK.pdf
• “Resilience and Resistance: Acts of Survival During World War II Hungary and What This Can Tell US About Today’s Society”
The 117th Annual American Anthropology Association’s Meetings, San Jose CA, November 14-18, 2018. Presented paper.
8:00AM -9:45 Commemorating and Coming to Terms With the Past
Complete program: http://s3.amazonaws.com/rdcms-aaa/files/production/public/meetings/2018%20AAA%20Program.pdf — on page 312
• “Re-writing Hungarian Life Histories: understanding the present by looking at the past” The 116th Annual American Anthropology Association’s Meetings, Washington DC, November 29- December 3, 2017. Presented paper. 4:15-6:00PM (4-1195) Understanding the Present by Looking at the Past.
https://www.eventscribe.net/2017/AAA/agenda.asp?day=12/1/2017&theday=Friday&h=Friday%20%20December%201&BCFO=M
•“Future Uncertainties and Re-Written Pasts: Temporal Rearrangements and Crafting Selves in Post-Socialist Hungary” The 115th Annual American Anthropology Association’s Meetings, Minneapolis, November 19, 2016. Presented paper.
Direct Link: http://bit.ly/2bRKgMd
• “Capturing Moments in Time: Hungarian Women’s Life Course Transitions, Parallel Histories, Perception and Autonomy” The 114th Annual American Anthropology Association’s Meetings, Denver, CO, November 18-22, 2015. Presented Paper. https://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2015/webprogrampreliminary/Session15582.html
• “Reorganizing Healthcare and a Mystification of the Body in Postsocialist Hungary: A Senior Pensioner’s Perspective” The 112th Annual American Anthropology Association’s Meetings, Chicago, Ill, November 20-24, 2013. Presented Paper (https://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2013/webprogrampreliminary/Session10161.html)
• “Hungarian Border Crossings: Embodying Intersections of Time, Space, and Identities in a Postsocialist Society,” The 111th Annual American Anthropology Association’s Meetings, San Francisco, Ca, November 14-18, 2012. Presented Paper and Chaired Panel entitled “Shifting Boundaries of Immigration and Globalization”. https://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2012/webprogrampreliminary/Session7570.html
• “Traces of Communist Legacy in Post Socialist Hungary: The Kitschification of Material Memory,” The 110th Annual American Anthropology Association’s Meetings, Montreal Canada, November 16-20, 2011. Presented Paper. https://aaa.confex.com/aaa/2011/webprogrampreliminary/Session4695.html
• “Circulating (A)Political Memory Through Time and Space; Elderly Hungarian Women’s Reinterpretation of Post Socialist Change” The 109th Annual American Anthropology Association’s Meetings, New Orleans, November 17-21, 2010. Presented Paper and served as the panel Chair for the Session entitled: “Circulations of Community and Identity”
http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/dev/viewDetail.cfm?itemtype=session&matchid=6636
• “Fragmented Publics: Identity, Time and Spatial Locations of Mothers Left Behind” The 108th Annual American Anthropology Association’s Meetings, Philadelphia, December 2-6, 2009. The session was entitled “Migration, Diaspora and Transnational Identities (Wed 12/2/09 3:30) http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/search/viewDetail.cfm?itemtype=session&matchid=5453
• “Sharing Chores, Sharing Stories, and Empowering Identity: The Collaborative Work of an Anthropologist and Senior Women in Post-Socialist Hungary” The American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA, November 2008. Presented paper and Chaired panel entitled “Eastern Europe in a Global Age” (Session 4-012 – Sunday 8:15)
http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/program/upload/2008Program6SundayOnly.pdf
• “Change, Practice, and Disillusion: The Social Shaping of Time and Space in Post Socialist Hungary” The American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meetings, San Jose, CA, November 2006.
•”Vintage Wine, Vintage Identity: Post Socialist Hungary, Symbolic Cultural Practices, and the Reconfiguration of Memory” The Canadian Anthropology Society Meetings, On Edge: Anthropology in Troubling Times, Dalhousie University, Halifax Canada, May 2003.
•”Talking Back: Power, Culture, Identity, and the Fieldwork Experience in Budapest Hungary.” The American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meetings, Washington, DC, November 2001.
•”Personal Identity and Emigration of Return Migrants in Socialist Hungary.” Beginnings and Ends of Emigration: Life without Borders in the Contemporary World. Prof. Egidijus Aleksandravicius. Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania: Lithuanian Emigration Institute, 2001.
•”A Ghost in the City: Hungarian Migratory Experiences and Construction of Identity in Different Societies Post Socialism.” Comparativists’ Day at UCLA: Presenting the Work of Graduate Students Working on Comparative Topics, coordinated by the Sociology Department (Prof. David Cook), January 26, 2001.
•”Graffiti Geographies.” The American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meetings, Washington, DC 1993.
•”The Enigma of Zora Neale Hurston.” The American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meetings, San Francisco, California, 1992
•”Re-writing Identities.” The Midwest Feminist Graduate Student Conference, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1991.
•”The Enigma of Zora Neale Hurston.” Women Writing Culture: Anthropology and its other voices, (organized by Prof. Ruth Behar) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1991.
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