Julia Szalai

In her teaching and research work, Julia Szalai has been engaged in studying intersectionalities of class, race/ethnicity, and gender in multiethnic societies across Europe with a closer focus on poverty and social exclusion in the post-socialist societies of Central and Eastern Europe. Her recent studies have addressed issues of structural transformation and the emergence of the post-socialist welfare states. During the past fifteen years, she has been involved in a great number of cross-country comparative studies, such as Ethnic Differences in Education and Diverging Prospects for Urban Youth in an Enlarged Europe (for which she acted as Principal Researcher), Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Crossnational Comparison; Gender and Development: Ten Years After Beijing; The European Roma: Theorising Marginality,Resistance and Integration; Gender Equality, Cultural Diversity: European Comparisons and Lesson; Multi-disciplinary and Cross-national Approaches to Romany Studies; Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe (RESL.eu); and Solidarity in European Societies: Empowerment, Social Justice and Citizenship (SOLIDUS).