Virag Molnar


Virág Molnár received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2005. Her general research and teaching interests include urban sociology, economic sociology, sociology of culture, and social change. She is primarily concerned with the cultural politics of the built environment and urban planning in a historical and comparative perspective. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores the political uses of architecture in Hungary and East Germany in the post-Second World War period. She has also been awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship by the European Commission to study the impact of globalization on housing construction by comparing the spread of private planned developments in contemporary Berlin and Budapest. Molnár’s research has been supported by grants from the DAAD, the National Science Foundation, and the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars at Princeton University.

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