Ágnes Fülemile :: Faculty
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Professor, Central Eurasian Studies Education
Ph.D. in Ethnography, ELTE Budapest, 1997 |
Research Interests
Social history, contemporary social processes, acculturation of peasant culture, ethnic, minority and identity issues, history of dress, history of graphics and popular prints
Personal Statement
Ágnes Fülemile is senior research fellow and Head of the Historical Ethnography Department at the Institute of Ethnology of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Currently she is the Visiting György Ránki Chair of Hungarian Studies at IU, Bloomington (2006-2007 and 2007-2008). She holds university degrees in History of Art, History and Ethnography from ELTE University, Budapest. She has a Ph. D in Ethnography from ELTE, Budapest and an M. Phil in the History of Dress from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Since 1990 she has been a regular lecturer at University of California’s Education Abroad Program at ELTE, Budapest and at the Study Abroad Program of CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) at the Budapest University of Economics. In 1992-1993, with a Fulbright grant she spent half a year at the Anthropology Department of UC Berkeley and another half a year at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York. In 1999 she was a visiting professor at the Hungarian Institute of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
She has done extensive field-work in several village communities in Hungary. Since 1990 she has been continuously doing fieldwork in Transylvania together with Balázs Balogh (living full-time for half a year in 2005). A book on this research was published by the Academic Press: Balogh, Balázs – Fülemile, Ágnes: Társadalom – tájszerkezet – identitás Kalotaszegen. Fejezetek a csoportképzés történeti folyamatairól. (Society, Regional Structure and Identity in Kalotaszeg. Chapters on Historic Processes of Regional Group Formation) 2004, Budapest. She has also published articles on the recent social and economic processes and ethnic issues in rural communities of Transylvania following the 1989 political changes in Romania.
Courses Recently Taught
- Ethnicity, Society and Culture in Hungary Part I: From the Beginnings to the End of the 17th Century
- Ethnicity, Society and Culture in Hungary Part II: Identity and Nationalism in the 18th-21th centuries
- Visualizing Ethnicity and Nationhood in European Art
- Rural Society and Folk Culture in Hungary
- Village life, Folk Art, Music and Dance Traditions in Hungary
- Hungarian Art in European Context – Art, Society and Everyday life in Hungary
Part I: From the Beginnings to the End of the 17th Century - Hungarian Art in European Context – Art, Society and Everyday life in Hungary
Part II: 18th – 20th Centuries - Transylvania - A Central European Region from Historical and Anthropological Perspectives
Publication Highlights
(with Balázs Balogh): Társadalom, tájszerkezet, identitás Kalotaszegen. Fejezetek a regionális csoportképzés történeti folyamatairól. (Society, Regional Structure and Identity in Kalotaszeg. Chapters on Historic Processes of Regional Group Formation) Budapest: Academic Press, 2004
(with Judit Stefány): A kazári női viselet változása a XIX-XX. században. (Changes in the Female Costume of Kazár in the 19th and 20th Century) Budapest, Dissertationes Ethnographicae 7. 1989
(with Balázs Balogh): Turning Inward or Forging New Ties – Social Strategies in Diaspora Communities on the Periphery of the Historical Hungarian Region of Kalotaszeg (Zona Călatei) in Transylvania. In: Balázs Balogh – Ilyés Zoltán: Perspectives of Diaspora Existence, Budapest: Academic Press 2006, pp 187-227
(with Balázs Balogh): „….az utókor is borzadjon meg olvasásán!” – A Kalotaszegi Egyházmegye Esperesi Hivatala 20. századi iratanyagának társadalomtörténeti tanulságai (Social History Lessons from the 20th Century Archival Documents of the Reformed Presbyterian Diocese of Kalotaszeg, Transylvania) In: Fülemile Á. – Kiss, R. (eds): Történeti forrás – Néprajzi olvasat, Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2007 pp 329-361
(with Balázs Balogh) Vázlat Kalotaszeg jelenkori társadalmáról (Notes on the Contemporary Society of Kalotaszeg) in Néprajzi Értesítő, 1998, LXXX pp 151-173
Történeti idő és emlékezés egy kétnemzetiségü kalotaszegi közösségben. Kalotaszentkirály-Zentelke ikerközség. (Historical Time and Memory in a Hungarian-Rumanian Community of Kalotaszeg, Transylvania) Regio 1996/1 64-87
„Imaginárius etnográfia” - a „monstrum hominis” ábrázolásának narratív és képi hagyatéka és a világ korai felfedezése (“Imaginary Ethnography” the Narrative and Visual Representation of “Monstrum Hominis” and the Early Discovery of the World) currently under publication
Gondolatok az orientalizmusról Marastoni Jakab Görög nő című képe kapcsán. (Thoughts about Orientalism on the Example of the Painting of Jakab Marastoni Representing Greek Woman) Művészettörténeti Értesítő LIV (2005) 1-2 pp 109-124
Creation of National Image: Trends of Court-dress in East Central Europe in the 19th Century, In: Kodolányi, J. (ed): Ethnic Communities, Ethnic Studies, Ethnic Costumes Today, Budapest, 1999. pp 169-181
Populáris grafika Magyarországon a 19. század második felében: emléklapok és emblematikájuk. (Popular Prints in Hungary in the 19th Century: National Historical Memoire Plates and its Emblematics) In: Kisbán, E. (ed): Parasztkultúra, populáris kultúra és a központi irányítás. Budapest, 1994 pp 213-233
A skót nemzeti viselet és Skócia turisztikai képe (The Scottish National Dress and Scotland’s Turistic Image) In: Fejős, Z. (ed): A turizmus mint kulturális rendszer, Budapest, 1998, pp 57-75
Magyar vonatkozású viseletábrázolások a 18. századi sokszorosított grafikában. (Printed Costume Plates of Hungarian Dress in the 18th Century) In: Népi kultúra – népi társadalom, 1993, XVII pp139-165
Megfigyelések a paraszti női viselet változásához Magyarországon Az I. vilagháborútól napjainkig. (The Urbanization of Peasant Women’s Dress in Hungary from World War I to Our Days) Ethnographia 1991/102 pp 50-78
Viseletábrázolások a 16-17. századi grafikában (Printed Costume Plates in the 16th and 17th Century Graphics) in Ars Hungarica, 1989/2 pp 116-132
Honors and Awards
- 2003-2006 Bolyai János Research Grant of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1999 Fulbright Scholar Grant - visiting Professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey
- 1997 Honorary Membership of Finnish Ethnographic Society
- 1995 Young Scholar Grant of OTKA and World Bank
- 1994 Soros Grant - Spring Semester, M.A History of Dress Course, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
- 1994 Jankó János Prize of the Hungarian Ethnographic Association
- 1992-93 Fulbright Scholar Grant - Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley and Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- 1991 Youth Prize of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
