Dr Katalin Halasz
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow
- Email: katalin.halasz@brunel.ac.uk
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
Katalin joined Brunel University as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in 2021. Her research project is on 'Affective whiteness: racializing Hungarian national identity '. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Politics of Patents ERC funded research project at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has held teaching positions at City and Goldsmiths universities.
Katalin's research is on exploring the lived experience of race and gender. She is particularly interested in experimenting with arts-based and creative methods (performance, video, installation, screen-print, costume, curation) to access the messiness of embodied experiences.
Katalin has staged a number of participatory and multimedia performances in Brazil, Bolivia, Denmark, Germany and the UK and curated the exhibitions Visualising Affect (UK, 2013) and The Future of Art is Urban – Artistic Research Practices and Methods in Social Sciences (UK, 2014).
More on her artful sociological research can be found on her website: katalinhalasz.com
Katalin is on the Editorial Board of Qualitative Research.
Qualifications
PhD in Visual Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Foundation Diploma in Fine Art, Camberwell, University fo the Arts London
MSc in European Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
LLM, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Pecs
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Newest selected publications
Halasz, K. (2023) 'How to Do Social Research with Performance', in Puwar, N., Coleman, R. and Jungnickel, K. (eds.) How to Do Social Research With .... Goldsmiths Press.
Halasz, K. (2021) 'Affects in Making White Womanhood', in Hunter, S. and Van der Westhuizen, C. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Critical Whiteness Studies. Routledge. ISBN 13: 9780367403799.
Halasz, K. (2019) '(Review) Race and Sexuality, by Vidal-Ortiz, S., Robinson, B. C. and Khan, C.'. The Sociological Review. ISSN: 0038-0261
Halasz, K. (2019) '(Review) Vital Bodies. Living with Illness, by Bates, C.'. Entanglements: Experiences in Multimodal Ethnography, 2 (1): 207-210..
Halasz, K. (2018) 'Affecting White Woman'. Feral Feminisms.