is Chair of Romani Studies and Academic Director of the Roma Graduate Preparation Program at the Central European University in Budapest and Vienna. She is the editor and co-editor of several volumes, including The Romani Women's Movement: Struggles and Debates in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2019, with Violetta Zentai, Jelena Jovanović and Enikő Vincze) and The Roma and their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe (Berghahn, 2020, with Huub van Baar). In 2013, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars honoured Kóczé with the Ion Ratiu Democracy Award for her interdisciplinary research approach, which combines community engagement and policymaking with in-depth participatory research on the situation of the Roma. In 2023, the Bard Center for the Study of Hate (BCSH), named Kóczé as the winner of the 2023 Beth Rickey Award. In 2025 she has received a 2025 Emma Goldman Snowball Award from the Netherlands-based FLAX Foundation.