Anthropologist
and Scholar
of Religion
I’m an anthropologist and scholar of religion studying religion and nationalism in Eastern Europe. I now live in Boston, Massachusetts, after spending more than three years in Romania and Hungary conducting research on the history of Catholic pilgrimage. I’m fluent in English and Hungarian and proficient in Romanian.
My opinion articles have appeared in major U.S. and European newspapers and magazines. I use my research to give smart and surprising fact-based commentaries on contemporary events.
I’ve given invited lectures at European and North American universities and presented at numerous international conferences. My book Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Romania: Reforming Apostles explores how contemporary Hungarian Catholic intellectuals are forging an ethical concept of nationhood. I’m currently working on a second book manuscript about how pilgrimage to the Our Lady of Csíksomlyó shrine is changing purchasing habits and devotion to the Virgin Mary in Transylvania’s Hungarian minority.
I work at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, as Managing Editor of the Journal of Global Catholicism.
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