I. - Basic information

I.1 - Surname

Buzalka

I.2 - Name

Juraj

I.3 - Degrees

Prof. Mgr. PhD. MA.

I.4 - Year of birth

1975

I.5 - Name of the workplace

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University

I.6 - Address of the workplace

Mlynské luhy 4, 821 05 Bratislava

I.7 - Position

Professor

I.8 - E-mail address

buzalka@fses.uniba.sk

I.9 - Hyperlink to the entry of a person in the Register of university staff

https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/5183

I.10 - Name of the study field in which a person works at the university

sociology and social anthropology

I.11 - ORCID iD

0000-0002-6449-122X

II. - Higher education and further qualification growth

II.1 - First degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts

II.b - Year

1999

II.c - Study field and programme

journalism - political science

II.2 - Second degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom - MA

II.b - Year

2001

II.c - Study field and programme

Anthropology of Europe

II.3 - Third degree of higher education

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg/Max Planck Institute for social anthropology - PhD

II.b - Year

2006

II.c - Study field and programme

ethnology/social anthropology

II.4 - Associate professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava

II.b - Year

2012

II.c - Study field and programme

ethnology

II.5 - Professor

II.a - Name of the university or institution

Charles University in Prague

II.b - Year

2024

II.c - Study field and programme

sociology

II.6 - Doctor of Science (DrSc.)

III. - Current and previous employment

III.a - Occupation-position	III.b - Institution	III.c - Duration
Asistant Professor	Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava	2006 - 2012
Associate professor	Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava	2012 - 2022
Professor	Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava	2022 -

IV. - Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills

IV.a - Activity description, course name, other	IV.b - Name of the institution	IV.c - Year
language course	Hungarian Institute in Bratislava	2010

V. - Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university

V.1 - Overview of the profile courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.1.a - Name of the profile course	V.1.b - Study programme	V.1.c - Degree	V.1.d - Field of study
Field project and field research	I.	sociálna antropológia	Sociology and Social Anthropology
Political and economic anthropology	social anthropology	I.	Sociology and Social Anthropology
Political and economic relations and cultures	social anthropology	II.	Sociology and Social Anthropology
Seminar on coding ethnographic data	social anthropology	II.	Sociology and Social Anthropology
Doctoral seminar 2	social anthropology	III.	Sociology and Social Anthropology

V.2 - Overview of the responsibility for the delivery, development and quality assurance of the study programme or its part at the university in the current academic year

V.3 - Overview of the responsibility for the development and quality of the field of habilitation procedure and inaugural procedure in the current academic year

V.4 - Overview of supervised final theses

V.4.1 - Number of currently supervised theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)

V.4.2 - Number of defended theses

V.4.a - Bachelor's (first degree)

V.4.b - Diploma (second degree)

V.4.c - Dissertation (third degree)

V.5 - Overview of other courses taught in the current academic year according to study programmes

V.5.a - Name of the course	V.5.b - Study programme	V.5.c - Degree	V.5.d - Field of study
Political and Economic Anthropology	social anthropology	bachelor	sociology and social anthropology
Anthroplogy of Eastern Europe	social anthropology	bachelor	sociology and social andthropology
Social and public policies in Slovakia	social anthropology	bachelor	sociology and social anthropology
Political and Economic Relations and Cultures	social anthropology	MA	sociology and social anthropology
Advanced qualitative methods	social anthropology	PhD	sociology and social anthropology

VI. - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1 - Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs and the corresponding citations

VI.1.1 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

179

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.2 - Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.3 - Number of citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

VI.1.a - Overall

196

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.4 - Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.1.5 - Number of invited lectures at the international, national level

VI.1.a - Overall

VI.1.b - Over the last six years

VI.2 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs

Buzalka, J. (2021), The cultural economy of protest in post socialist European Union village fascists and their rivals, Abingdon: Routledge, 211 s.

Buzalka, J. (2021), Village fascists and progressive populists: Two faces of the countermovement in Slovakia, Europe-Asia Studies, 73, 9, 1658-1682

Buzalka, J. (2018), Post-peasant memories populist or communist nostalgia, East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 32, 4, 988-1006

Buzalka, J. (2008), Europeanization and post-peasant populism in Eastern Europe, Europe-Asia Studies, 60, 5, 757-771

Buzalka, J. (2007), Nation and religion the politics of commemoration in South-East Poland, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2007, 237 s

VI.3 - The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years

Buzalka, J. (2021), The cultural economy of protest in post socialist European Union village fascists and their rivals, Abingdon: Routledge, 211 s.

Buzalka, J. (2021), Village fascists and progressive populists: Two faces of the countermovement in Slovakia, Europe-Asia Studies, 73, 9, 1658-1682

Buzalka, J. (2022) Post-Peasant Progressivism: On Liberal Tendencies in the Slovak Countryside, In Juraj Buzalka and Agnieszka Pasieka, eds, Anthropology of Transformation: From Europe to Asia and Back. Open Book Publishers, pp. 179-204.

Buzalka, J. and ANdrea Figulova (2023) ‘Post-Peasant Progressivism as a kind of Populism,’ Journal of Contemporary European Studies 32(4), 978–993.

Buzalka, J. (2022). ‘The Post-peasant Populism of East Central Europe. On Resilience and Mobilisation of an Economic Base’, Ethnologia Polona 43/1: 43-63

VI.4 - The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs

Buzalka, J. (2021), The cultural economy of protest in post socialist European Union village fascists and their rivals, Abingdon: Routledge, 211 s. [o1] 2021 - Kalb, D. - The neo-nationalist ascendency: further thoughts on class, value and the return of the repressed. - In: Social Anthropology, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2021 ; s. 316-328

Buzalka, J. (2018), Post-peasant memories populist or communist nostalgia, East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 32, 4, 988-1006 [o1] 2020 - Santana, A. - Zagórski, P. - Rama, J. - At odds with Europe: explaining populist radical right voting in Central and Eastern Europe. - In: East European Politics, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2020 ; s. 288-309

Buzalka, J. (2018), Post-peasant memories populist or communist nostalgia, East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 32, 4, 988-1006 [o1] 2021 - Kalb, D. - The neo-nationalist ascendency: further thoughts on class, value and the return of the repressed. - In: Social Anthropology, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2021 ; s. 316-328

Buzalka, J. (2008), Europeanization and post-peasant populism in Eastern Europe, Europe-Asia Studies, 60, 5, 757-771 [o1] 2019 - Holmes, D. R. : Fascism at eye level The anthropological conundrum. - In: Focaal-Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, No. 84, 2019 ; s. 62-90

Buzalka, J. (2007), Nation and religion the politics of commemoration in South-East Poland, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2007, 237 s [o1] 2014 - Hann, C. : Building Fortress Europe: The Polish-Ukrainian Frontier.. - In: Anthropoligical Quarterly, Vol 87, No. 3, 2014 ; s. 949-953

VI.5 - Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years

2016 – 2019: Rooms for Maneuver in State Socialism. Between Adaptation and Experiment (Uniwersytet Warszawski and Universität Siegen – Deutsche Forschungemainschaft/Narodowe Centrum Nauki Joint Call Beethoven), riešiteľ/investigator.

2015 – 2019: ANEXINT – The Anthropology of Exclusion and Integration: Slovakia in the Context of European Transformations (Slovak Research and Development Agency - APVV-14-0431), principal investigator.

2022 – 2025: Jean Monet Chair, Erasmus+ project POSTGREEN: The post-socialist society and culture for the European Green Deal, Call: ERASMUS-JMO-2021-HEI-TCH-RSCH

VII. - Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities

VII.a - Activity, position	VII.b - Name of the institution, board	VII.c - Duration
člen Rady naukowej	LUD - organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Ludoznawczego i Komitetu Nauk Etnologicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk	2017 -
member of the Board of Directors	Ústav pamäti národa	2018 - 2024
member of the scientific board	FSEV UK Bratislava	2013 -
editor in chief	časopis OS - fórum občianskej spoločnosti	2010 - 2012
member	expert team of the national project Excellent University, Comenius University in Bratislava	2007 -

VIII. - Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study

VIII.a - Name of the institution	VIII.b - Address of the institution	VIII.c - Duration (indicate the duration of stay)	VIII.d - Mobility scheme, employment contract, other (describe)
University of Innsbruck, Department of Sociology	Innsbruck, Austria	1. 3. - 30. 4. 2022	visiting professor - contract
Central European University, Institute of Advanced Studies (CEU-IAS)	Budapest, Hungary	1. 10. - 31. 12. 2016	senior core fellow - scholarship
Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza, Fakulta humanistiky	Krakov, Poland	1. 10. - 31. 12. 2017	hosťujúci profesor - kontrakt
SUNY Binghamton, Katedra antropológie	Binghamton, NY, USA	1. 2. 2015 - 31. 5. 2016	Marie Curie Fellow - projekt
Institute of Human Sciences (IWM)	Vienna, Austria	1. 10. - 31. 12. 2008	senior fellow - scholarship
Aleksanteri Institute	University of Helsinki	1. 4. - 30. 6. 2009	senior fellow - scholarship

IX. - Other relevant facts

IX.a - If relevant, other activities related to higher education or research/artistic/other activities are mentioned

The book of the year 2023 by Martinus bookstore chain for Postsedliaci. Slovenský ľudový protest (Bratislava: Mamaš 2023)

Panta Rhei Awards 2023, The book muse award by bookstore chain for Postsedliaci. Slovenský ľudový protest (Bratislava: Mamaš 2023)

The book of the year 2023 by Denník N for Postsedliaci. Slovenský ľudový protest (Bratislava: Mamaš 2023)

Date of last update

2025-03-28

Name and surname:	doc. Mgr. M. A. Juraj Buzalka, PhD.
Document type:	Research/art/teacher profile of a person
The name of the university:	Comenius University Bratislava
The seat of the university:	Šafárikovo námestie 6, 818 06 Bratislava