Annina Gagyiova, PhD., is a Research Associate at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. A social and cultural historian specialising in post-War Hungary, her research interests include the history of expertise, gender, medicine and consumption, with a focus on comparative and transnational perspectives. She graduated in History and Philosophy from Humboldt University Berlin and completed her Phd under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer (IOS, Regensburg).
She is the author of the German-language monograph “From Goulash to Fridges. Individual Consumption between Eigensinn and Political Dominance in Socialist Hungary (1956–1989),” which examines the question why socialism failed in Hungary despite its consumption culture being more Western and colourful than anywhere else in the ’socialist bloc’.
She is currently preparing an English publication based on her monograph. Prior to joining FemEx, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the GAČR EXPRO grant “ExpertTurn” under PI Katerina Lišková (2021–2024). Her papers have appeared in Continuity and Change, The History of the Family, Medical History, History of Science and Labor. She serves on the editorial board of the Hungarian Studies Review.