

Eszter Varsa
is a social historian with a PhD in Comparative Gender Studies (CEU, Budapest, 2011). She worked at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg (2014-2016) and was Romani Rose Fellow at the Research Centre on Antigypsyism at Heidelberg University’s Department of History (2020). She is a research affiliate in the ERC Advanced Grant project “ZARAH: Women's Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Transnationally, From the Age of Empires to the Late 20th Century” at the CEU. Her research interests include the history of agrarian women’s labour activism, the history of child protection, eugenics and reproductive politics, and the history of the Roma in the twentieth-century Eastern Europe. She is author of Protected Children, Regulated Mothers: Gender and the ‘Gypsy Question’ in State Care in Postwar Hungary, 1949–1956 (CEU Press, 2021). She received the Emma Goldman Award in 2023.