Associate Professor, Anthropology
fehervar@umich.edu
Office Information:
234-B West Hall, 1085 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
phone: 734.764.2361
Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies;
International Institute;
CREES Faculty Associates;
Steering Committee;
Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia;
WCEE Faculty
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2005
M.A., Classics, Graduate Institute, St. John's College, Sante Fe, 1989
B.A., Cross-cultural Communications: Focus on East Central Europe and Media Studies, Brown University, 1984
About
I am a socio-cultural anthropologist. My theoretical interests center on materiality and semiotics, with an empirical focus on consumer culture, aesthetics, architecture and home decor, popular culture, and the body. Questions of political economy and historical transformation motivate my work. My fieldwork has focused primarily on state-socialist and post-socialist eastern Europe (especially Hungary), but I have also carried out ethnographic research in the United States.
Affiliation(s)
- CES, CREES, WCED, Anthropology, Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History
Award(s)
- William E. Douglass Prize, best book in the Anthropology of Europe for Politics in Color and Concrete
- Honorable Mention: Davis Center Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) for Politics in Color and Concrete
