Karolina Lendák-Kabók

Karolina Lendák-Kabók, PhD is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024) at the Department of Minority Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University. She holds an Assistant Professorship at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She earned her BA (2010) and MA (2012) degrees at the Faculty of Law and her PhD in Gender Studies (2019) at the Center for Gender Studies, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. The focus of her research is the position of ethnic minorities, language barrier, gender differences in academia and ethnic intermarriages. She published a book titled: Ethnic Minorities in Serbian Academia – the Role of Gender and Language Barrier, Palgrave Macmillian (2022). She edited a book of essays of ethnic minority Hungarian women living in Serbia titled: Üvegplafon? (Eng. titile: Glass ceiling?), Forum 2020. Karolina was awarded the "ELTE Promising Researcher" Award (2023), “Anđelka Milić“ Award for enhancing gender equality at the University of Novi Sad (2022), and the Crystal Ball Award (2017) for an outstanding scientific contribution of a young scholar. In 2024 she received the three year long "Bolyai János" Research Scholarship awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2014, she received a “National Excellence” scholarship in Hungary and was part of the Hungarian three-year-long “Collegium Talentum” research scholarship program (2013 – 2016) for gifted ethnic Hungarian students living outside the Hungarian border. She was a visiting researcher at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) in 2015, at the University of Sydney (Australia) in 2016, at the Université Paris-Est Créteil (Paris, France) in 2018 and the at University of Lausanne (Switzerland) also in 2018 and Purdue University (USA) in October 2021, University of Victoria (Canada) in February-March 2024. She was an invited speaker at the Sociology Department, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Japan in March, 2019. In 2019 during the winter semester, she was an external researcher at ELTE, Faculty of Social Sciences, Budapest, Hungary with a scholarship awarded by the “Délvidékért Kiss” Fund. She authored or co-authored more than 50 journal and/or conference papers. Karolina is a mother of three underaged children.