Dorit Geva

Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology, and founding Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Central European University.

Dorit Geva is Professor and founding Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Central European University, overseeing CEU’s BA programs which were launched in Vienna in 2019.

After completing a PhD in Sociology at New York University, she was the Vincent Wright Fellow in Comparative Politics at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (2006-2007), followed by four years as a Harper Schmidt Fellow (the Society of Fellows) teaching undergraduate political and social theory within the University of Chicago’s common core curriculum (2007-2011).

Her expertise is in political sociology, gender and politics, qualitative methods, and political and social theory. She wrote a comparative book on the politics of military service in France and the United States, published by Cambridge University Press and soon to be published in German by Hamburger Press. She published related journal articles in the American Journal of Sociology, Polity, Politics and Society, and various other journals. She has also published on fatherhood and welfare reform in the journal Social Politics.

In 2013 she started studying gender and the new radical right in Europe, with the support of a Marie Curie Grant, and a European Institute for Advanced Studies (EURIAS) grant held at the Collegium de Lyon. This work has been published in the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, and Social Politics, where her article, “Daughter, Mother, Captain: Marine Le Pen, Gender, and Populism in the French National Front,” was selected as an Editor’s Choice article. Her article “Non au Gender! Moral epistemics and French conservative strategies of distinction” received an honourable mention for the 2021 Best Paper Award by the European Sociological Association.

Her most recent work examines the merger between far-right and neoliberal politics, especially as articulated in contemporary Hungarian politics and the post-neoliberal state. This work has been published in Theory, Culture and Society; and with Dr. Felipe Santos she co-authored a publication in International Affairs.