Lendák-Kabók, Karolina

Dr. Karolina Lendák-Kabók is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. Her research focuses on ethnic minorities, collective memory, gender, intermarriage, language, and identity formation in Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author of National Minorities in Serbian Academia: The Role of Gender and Language Barrier (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) and has published extensively on minority rights, education, gender equality, and post-Yugoslav societies. Dr. Lendák-Kabók leads internationally funded research on ethnic identity and mixed families, including the MTA–ELTE Lendület Research Group on Ethnic Minorities and Identity Formation, and has played an active role in numerous European research networks and COST Actions.

Her work combines interdisciplinary scholarship with strong engagement in public policy, knowledge mobilization, and international collaboration on diversity, inclusion, and democratic citizenship.