SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE
Péter Berta
Politics & Sociology, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University College London
16 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW, United Kingdom
Email: p.berta@ucl.ac.uk
Web: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/dr-peter-berta
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Date of birth: 2 September 1972 Citizenship: Hungarian
Education
– 2008 Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
– 1996 M.A. in Linguistics and Hungarian Literature (Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, Hungary)
Work experience (without being exhaustive)
– 2021– Budapest Business School, Dept. of Communication (Senior Research Fellow)
– 2017– University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Politics & Sociology (Honorary Research Associate)
– 2016– University College London, Transnational Spaces: Migration Research Unit (Dept. of Geography; Associate Member)
– 2016– University College London, Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies (Affiliate Member)
– 2016–2018 University College London, Institute for Global Prosperity (Visiting Senior Research Associate)
– 2015–2017 University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Politics&Sociology (Marie Curie Research Fellow)
– 2005–2009 University of Pécs, Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (Lecturer)
– 1999–2019 Dept. of Social Anthropology, Institute for Ethnology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Senior Research Associate)
– 1998–2001 Eötvös Loránd University, Dept. of Folklore Studies (Research Associate)
Professional service
– 2015– Journal of Gypsy Studies (Transnational Press, London; member of the international advisory board)
– 2014 Intersections: East European Journal of Society and Politics (Member of the editorial board)
– 2014– Regio: Kisebbség, Kultúra, Politika, Társadalom [Region: Minorities, Culture, Politics and Society] (Editor) [In Hungarian]
– 1997–2005 Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss (Since vol. 6. issue 1. 2001 Journal of Loss and Trauma: International Perspectives on Stress and Coping. Member of the international advisory board)
– 1997– Kharon: Thanatológiai Szemle [Kharon: Review of Thanatology.] (Member of the editorial board) [In Hungarian]
Research fields
– economic anthropology/sociology
– anthropology/sociology of art
– law, marriage and society (the politics of arranged marriage)
– new material culture studies
– consumption studies
– Romani studies
Anthropological fieldwork
– 33 months in Romanian Gabor and Carhar Roma communities (1998–2019).
Fellowship Review
– Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Individual Fellowships (European Commission)
– Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Innovative Training Networks (European Commission)
– Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
Book and Article Manuscript Review
– Acta Ethnographica Hungarica
– American Anthropologist
– Anthropological Quarterly
– Berghahn Books
– Erdélyi Társadalom (in Hungarian)
– Ethnic and Racial Studies
– Ethnicities
– Ethnographia (in Hungarian)
– HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
– Identities
– Journal of Consumer Culture
– Journal of Gypsy Studies
– Museum Anthropology
– REGIO (in Hungarian)
– Rutgers University Press
– University of Michigan Press
Courses taught
– Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
– Ethnicity, Kinship, and Economic Strategies in Roma Communities
– Material Culture and the Politics of Identity
– Political Anthropology: Symbolic Conflicts
– Economic Anthropology and Roma Communities
Grants and Fellowships
– 1997–2000 ELTE Doctoral Fellowship
– 1999–2002 Fellowship of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
– 2000 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship (Romania, 4 months)
– 2001–2002 Open Society Institute Fellowship (Roma Culture Initiative)
– 2002 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship (Romania, 7 months)
– 2003 Fellowship of the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage
– 2004 Fellowship of the Ministry of National Cultural Heritage
– 2005 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship (Great Britain, UCL Dept. of Anthropology, 3 months)
– 2005 Open Society Institute Fellowship (Roma Culture Initiative)
– 2007 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship (Great Britain, UCL Dept. of Anthropology, 3 months)
– 2008 Hungarian State Eötvös Fellowship (Great Britain, UCL Dept. of Anthropology, 3 months)
– 2009–2012 Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
– 2011 Fellowship of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
– 2014 Fellowship of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund
– 2015-2017Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (Great Britain, UCL School of Slavonicand East European Studies)
Memberships in Professional Associations
– American Anthropological Association
– American Political Science Association
– American Sociological Association
– European Association of Social Anthropologists
– European Academic Network on Romani Studies
– Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
– Society for Romanian Studies
Languages
– Hungarian (mother tongue)
– Fluent in English
– Fluent in Romani