Eszter Kováts

Eszter Kováts studied German and French Studies, sociology and political science in Pécs, Szeged and Budapest. From 2009 to 2019 she was responsible for the East-Central European gender program of the political foundation Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Budapest. From 2016 to 2022 she did her PhD in Political Science at ELTE University, Budapest. From January to June 2020 she had a research grant at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In February 2022 she defended her dissertation with the title “Enemy image, hegemony and reflection – meaning and function of the concept of gender in the politics of the Orbán regime and the German radical right”. Her dissertation was published as a book in Hungarian in September 2022 and was awarded the Kolnai prize, the prize for the best political science book of the year, by the Hungarian Political Science Association. From February 2023 until April 2024 she has been assistant professor in the research area Politics and Gender at the Institute of Political Science, afterwards a lecturer at the department. Since September 2024 she has been Marie Skodłowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the research area Political Theory with her research project ‚Social justice or cancel culture? Gender-just language and academic freedom in Germany‘.