BORBÁLA KRIZA obtained her MA in Sociology and Sociology of Minorities at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest and also studied at Nationalism Studies Program of Central European University, Budapest. Currently she is a Ph.D. candidate at Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris as well as lecturer at Institute of Sociology, ELTE. She participated in numerous research projects; her main research interests include far right political parties and ideologies in Europe, national myths and identity, migration, minorities, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and collective memory. She has published extensively in Hungarian and English, her reports and articles appear regularly in the Hungarian press. Since 1999, as expert, researcher, interviewer, she has contributed to several prize winning documentary films treating social issues (Being Decorated, The End of the Road, From Home to Home by Tamás Almási, Once They Were Neighbours by Zsuzsanna Varga, Terminus by Gábor Péter Németh). Currently she is working on her own documentary entitled Rocking the Nation on ‘patriotic rock’ subculture.
