Biography: Prof. Dr., sociologist. Kovács studied sociology and economics at the Karl Marx University of Budapest, PhD 1994, Habilitation 2009. She is Deputy Director of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies and Research Professor in the Institute of Sociology at the Center for Social Sciences in Budapest. Her research fields are the history of the Holocaust in Central Europe, research on memory and remembrance, and Jewish identity in Hungary and Slovakia. She has authored five monographs, edited ten volumes, published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, co-curated exhibitions in Budapest, Berlin, Bratislava, Krems, Prague, Vienna and Warsaw. She is the founder the audio-visual archive “Voices of the Twentieth Century” in Budapest.
Currently she is involved in two Horizon2020 projects (EHRI-3 and EHRI-PP) and she is also working on a project documenting the everyday life of the Hungarian Jewish Forced Labourers in Vienna and its Vicinity (1944-1945) with a book coming out in 2024.
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