Violetta Zentai, Ph.D. is a cultural anthropologist, and the Director of the CPS since September 2003. Dr. Zentai is engaged in research focusing on gender and racial equality, welfare debates, post-socialist economic transformation, and democratic governance and decentralization. She is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Pecs, and CEU’s Sociology and Social Anthropology Department and the Public Policy Department. Her recent publications include: Gender Equality Policy or Gender Mainstreaming: The Case of Hungary. (with Krizsan, A) Policy Studies, 27(2), 2006; From civil society development to policy research (with Krizsan, A). In Global Knowledge Networks and International Development. eds Stone, D.; Maxwell, S. London: Routledge, 2005; Faces of Local Democracy. eds. with Soos, G. Budapest: OSI, 2005. The Pregnant Worker and Caring Mother. (with P. Meier, E. Peterson and K. Tertinegg. In Multiple Meanings of Gender Equality: A Critical Frame Analysis of Gender Policies in Europe, CEU Press, 2007
E-mail: vzentai@osi.hu
