Fanni Svégel
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Received Sylff fellowship in 2025
Current affiliation : Eötvös Loránd University
Fanni Svégel is an ethnographer, PhD candidate at Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities, writing on the history of childbirth and abortion, women experts and violence against women. Her dissertation project The Changing Landscape of Reproduction examines the intersection of medical, political, and cultural influences on reproduction, emphasizing the complex dynamics of state intervention, professionalization, and gender in mid-century Hungary.