 Virág Molnár
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Virág Molnár received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 2005. Her general research and teaching interests include urban sociology, economic sociology, sociology of culture, and social change. She is primarily concerned with the cultural politics of the built environment and urban planning in a historical and comparative perspective. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores the political uses of architecture in Hungary and East Germany in the post-Second World War period. She has also been awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship by the European Commission to study the impact of globalization on housing construction by comparing the spread of private planned developments in contemporary Berlin and Budapest. Molnár's research has been supported by grants from the DAAD, the National Science Foundation, and the Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars at Princeton University.
Selected Publications
2005. "Cultural Politics and Modernist Architecture: The Tulip Debate in Post-War Hungary." American Sociological Review 70 (1): 111-35
2002. "The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences." Annual Review of Sociology 28: 165-95. (with Michèle Lamont) 2001. "How Blacks Use Consumption to Shape their Collective Identity: Evidence from African-American Marketing Specialists." Journal of Consumer Culture 1 (1): 31-45. (with Michèle Lamont) 1999. "Too Much Economics." Contribution to the "New Democracy Forum: What's Driving Consumption?" Boston Review 24 (3-4): 18-20. (with Michèle Lamont)
Courses Taught
SOC 169: Urban Sociology
SOC 801.12: The Politics of Consumption
Contact Information vmolnar@gwu.edu
202-994-6897
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