Ass.Prof.in Zsófia Lóránd, MA PhD

Principal Investigator

Zsófia Lóránd is Assistant Professor at the Department of Contemporary History and RECET at the University of Vienna. Earlier, she was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Faculty of History and Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge and had held positions at the European University Institute in Florence and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the University of Göttingen. Her book, The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia focusing on the intellectual history of feminism in the 1970s and 1980s was published in 2018 and got translated into Croatian in 2020. Whilst living in Hungary, she worked for 8 years as an SOS helpline volunteer and trainer in the field of domestic violence. Currently, she is the PI of her ERC-funded project HERESSEE “The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929 – 2001”.

Selected Publications

• Lóránd, Zsófia. The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia. Monograph in the series “Genders and Sexualities in History”. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018.
• Lóránd, Zsófia, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, eds. Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights. East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century. Budapest, New York: CEU Press, forthcoming.
• Lóránd, Zsófia. “Socialism.” In Routledge Handbook of Global Feminism, edited by Bonnie G. Smith and Nova Robinson, 364-378. London: Routledge, 2022.

• Women’s and feminist thought in the GDR, Hungary, and Yugoslavia between 1929 and the early 2000s.

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Department of Contemporary History
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