Dr Katalin Halasz
Lecturer
- Email: katalin.halasz@brunel.ac.uk
- Politics and History
- Social and Political Sciences
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
Katalin is a body scholar working across film, video art, installation, performance, cross-dressing and curation to inquire into her research interests of affect/emotion, senses/embodiment, racialization/whiteness, gender, belonging, migration and nationalism.
She joined Brunel University as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in 2021. Her Leverhulme research project is on 'Affective whiteness: racializing Hungarian national identity '. As part of this research, she has produced the video installation on racial discomfort You Are Invited, which was presented at the Pratt Institute in NYC and at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa; and the short essay film on national belonging The bell rings.
After finishing her PhD in Visual Sociology, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Politics of Patents ERC funded research project at Goldsmiths, University of London. She held teaching positions at City and Goldsmiths universities.
Before her academic career, Katalin worked in the antiracist movement (European Network Against Racism, Action for Race Equality and The Runnymede Trust), and developed her art practice.
Katalin has staged a number of participatory and multimedia performances in Brazil, Bolivia, Denmark, Germany, South Africa, the USA and the UK and curated the exhibitions Visualising Affect and The Future of Art is Urban – Artistic Research Practices and Methods in Social Sciences.
More on her artful sociological research can be found on her website: katalinhalasz.com
Katalin is on the Board of the International Visual Sociology Association and 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
Responsibility
Katalin is module leader for CO2630 The Creative Industries, Fashion & Culture.
Newest selected publications
Halasz, K. (2024) 'Citizenship and discomfort: Wearing (clothing) as an embodied act of citizenship'. The Sociological Review, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 18. ISSN: 0038-0261 Open Access Link
Halasz, K. (2024) 'Performance Art and Embodied Data Analysis in Arts-Based Sociological Research on Whiteness', in Kara, H. (ed.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Creative Research Methods. London : Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 225 - 236. ISBN 10: 1-350-35575-5. ISBN 13: 978-1-350-35574-3.
Halász, K. (2024) 'How to Do Social Research with Performance', in Coleman, R., Jungnickel, K. and Puwar, N. (eds.) How to Do Social Research With .... London : Goldsmiths Press. pp. 198 - 206. ISBN 10: 1-913380-40-8. ISBN 13: 978-1-913380-42-7.
Halasz, K. (2023) 'Europe. Focus on Health', in Walker, B. (ed.) State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2013: Events of 2012. London : Minority Rights Group International. pp. 177 - 196. ISBN 10: 1-907919-40-6. ISBN 13: 978-1-907919-40-4.
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.