Vita Zalar

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Vita Zalar

is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, focusing on the history of anti-Roma structural racism during the transition from feudalism to capitalism in the Habsburg Empire and its successor states. Her doctoral thesis, defended in December 2024, examined the punitive governance of Roma and Sinti in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1848 to 1941. She was awarded the 2023 BASEES Study Group for Minority History (SGMH) Prize for Best First Book Proposal for her project titled “The Political Economy of Antigypsyism: Habsburg and Post-Habsburg Perspectives.” Her research integrates social and legal history, conceptual history, and the history of (racial) capitalism. Moving away from linguistic and cultural turns, she pursues a materialist interpretation of her source material. Additionally, she co-organizes the Romani History Seminar at the Prague Center for Romani Histories.

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vita.zalar@gmail.com