Angéla Kóczé is Associate Professor, Chair of Romani Studies, and Academic Director of the Roma Graduate Preparation Program at Central European University in Budapest and Vienna. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters with international presses, including Palgrave Macmillan, Ashgate, Routledge, and CEU Press, as well as several policy papers on social inclusion, gender equality, social justice, and civil society. In 2013, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, honored Kóczé with the Ion Ratiu Democracy Award for her interdisciplinary research approach, which combines community engagement and policymaking with in-depth participatory research on the situation of Roma. In 2023, the Bard Center for the Study of Hate named Kóczé the recipient of the Beth Rickey Award. In 2025, she received the Emma Goldman Snowball Award from the Netherlands-based FLAX Foundation. This award recognized her scholarship problematizing gendered racialization and racial oppression against Roma. She is the editor or co-editor of several volumes, including The Romani Women’s Movement: Struggles and Debates in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2019, with Violetta Zentai, Jelena Jovanović, and Enikő Vincze) and The Roma and Their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe (Berghahn, 2020, with Huub van Baar). Her forthcoming monograph, Romani Women at the Edge of Neoliberal Europe: Discursive Emancipation and Structural Violence, will be published by Manchester University Press.

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Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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  • Central European University

    University, Vienna, Austria
    Professor -Associate

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Roma and the politics of double discourse in contemporary Europe

Authors Angéla Kóczé, Márton Rövid
Year 2017
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