Fellows Profile

Received Sylff fellowship in 2025
Current affiliation: Eötvös Loránd University

Kristóf Nagy is a historical anthropologist and sociologist specializing in the cultural politics of contemporary far-right governments. With a background in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a Ph.D. in social sciences from Central European University, his research explores the intersections of imperialism, cultural infrastructures and far-right culture wars through ethnographic and historical methods.

As a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University in 2025/2026, he is developing his first monograph on far-right cultural policies and their global historical connections, centering the case of Hungary as a laboratory for contemporary culture wars. For seven years, he has edited Fordulat, a journal of left social theory. Since 2022, he is a core reseach fellow at the Central European Research Institute for Art History, and an assistant professor at the Eötvös Loránd University.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/krist%C3%B3f-nagy-270982255/
https://princeton.academia.edu/Krist%C3%B3fNagy
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kristof-Nagy-4