Prof. Dr Andrea Petö (Hungary) – Co-President
Prof. Dr habil. Andrea PETŐ associate professor at the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Her first monograph: Nõhistóriák. A politizáló magyar nõk története (1945-1951) was published in Budapest in 1998 by Seneca and in English by Columbia University Press/East European Monographs as Women in Hungarian Politics 1945-1951 in 2003. She wrote the biography of Rajk Júlia (Balassi, Budapest, 2001) in the series "Feminism and History", she is editing (also published as Geschlecht, Politik und Stalinismus in Ungarn. Eine Biographie von Júlia Rajk. Studien zur Geschichte Ungarns, Bd. 12. Gabriele Schäfer Verlag, 2007.) Her next monograph is exploring gender and conservatism: Napasszonyok és Holdkisasszonyok. A mai magyar konzervatív női politizálás alaktana, (Women of Sun and Girls of Moon. Morphology of Contemporary Hungarian Women Doing Politics) Budapest, Balassi, 2003 awarded by the Bolyai Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006.
She is also the author of numerous articles in English, Russian, German, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Polish, Georgian, Hungarian, Italian and French.
She edited six volumes in Hungarian, ten volumes in English, two in Russian. She is the co-editor together with Berteke Waldijk and Annika Olsson „Teaching with Gender. European Women’s Studies in International and Interdisciplinary Classrooms”. She is the president of the gender and women’s history section of the Hungarian Historical Association and the Feminist Section of the Hungarian Sociological Association.
Presently she is working on gender and history of WWII.
She was awarded by President of the Hungarian Republic with the Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of The Republic of Hungary (Magyar Koztarsasagi Erdemrend Tisztikeresztje) in 2005.