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the history of social politics at the universities of Sofia, Vienna, Graz, and Siegen. Her research inter¬
ests are gender, family politics, and the history of social politics in Bulgaria, and historical and visual
anthropology. She has authored numerous publications.
Edina Kicsindi kicsindi.edina@pte.hu
Graduated in history and ethnography at the University of Pécs, Hungary. She is currently finish¬
ing her PhD studies in European ethnology and cultural anthropology at the same university. Her
research interest is in 19th-century historical anthropology especially the history of mentalities. She
has authored several publications that focus on the interpretation of western European colonization in
Africa and its integration into the Hungarian worldview of the Habsburgian era.
Alexander Kozintsev agkozintsev@gmail.com
Doctor of history, Senior Researcher Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Saint-Petersburg,
and Professor at Saint-Petersburg University (Smolny/Bard College of Liberal Arts and Sciences). Re¬
search interests are anthropology (physical and cultural) and the theory of humor. He has authored
260 publications including the monographs The Mirror of Laughter (2010); (with S. Vasilyev and Yu.
Berezkin) Siberia and the First Americans (2009); Ethnic Cranioscopy, Leningrad 1988; and Origins of
the Tagar Population (1977).
Eva Krekovitovä kreko@chello.sk
PhD, research professor (DSc). Ethnologist and ethnomusicologist at the Institute of Ethnology, Slo¬
vak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. Fields of research: theory, folklore research, political anthropol¬
ogy. From 2002 to 2006 she served as executive director of the Interdisciplinary Center of Excellency,
which focused on collective identities in modern societies. She regularly teaches at Comenius Uni¬
versity, Bratislava. Selected books: Zwischen Toleranz und Barrieren. Das Bild der Zigeuner und Juden
in der slowakischen Folklore (1998); Mentdlne obrazy, stereotypy a myty vo folklore a v politike (Mental
Images, Stereotypes, and Myths in Folklore and in Policy) (2005); and (in cooperation with G. Kiliänovä
and E. Kowalska) My a ti druht. Kolektivne identity v moderne; spoloënosti (Us and the Others. Collective
Identities in Modern Societies) (2009).
Ildikó Sz. Kristóf ildiko.szkristof@gmail.com
Senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy
of Sciences, Budapest. She holds a CSc degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and teaches
history and anthropology in the universities of Budapest and Szeged, Hungary. Her research interests
include the history of cultural anthropology (the reception and appropriation of non-European indig¬
enous peoples, especially American Indians in eastern Europe/Hungary), the history of early modern
books and communication, and the history of witch-hunting. She is the author of the book “J Have Not
Done Any Diabolic Deed:” The Social and Cultural Foundation of Witch-Hunting in the City of Debrecen
and Bihar County Between the 16” and the 18 Centuries (1998). Her articles include The Uses of De¬
monology. European Missionaries and Native Americans in the American Southwest (17—18" Cen¬
turies), [in:] G. E. Szönyi, C. Maczelka (eds.), Centers and Peripheries in European Renaissance Culture.
Essays by East-Central European Mellon Fellows (2012); Missionaries, Monsters, and the Demon Show.
Diabolized Representations of American Indians in Jesuit Libraries of 17% and 18" Century of Upper
Hungary, [in:] A. Kérchy and A. Zittlau (eds.), Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European
Freak Shows and “Enfreakment” (2012).
Florin Padurean take_hd@yahoo.com
Graduated as valedictorian from the Faculty of History and Art-History at the Babes-Bolyai Univer¬
sity in Cluj-Napoca in 2005. His final paper was an analysis of the mechanisms of political cartooning.
In 2006, he received a master’s degree in cultural anthropology, with a study dedicated to ethnic stere¬
otypes in Romanian caricature. He has published several articles on the subject of caricature and he is
also an active cartoonist, with presences in national and international saloons over the last ten years.
In 2011, he earned a PhD in history from the Babes-Bolyai University. The title of his dissertation is
Ethnic Stereotypes in Romanian Art (1848-1947).