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544 Contributors the history of social politics at the universities of Sofia, Vienna, Graz, and Siegen. Her research interests 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 finishing 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). Research 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, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava. Fields of research: theory, folklore research, political anthropology. 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 University, 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 indigenous 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 Demonology. European Missionaries and Native Americans in the American Southwest (17—18" Centuries), [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 University 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 stereotypes 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).
