Dr Judit Molnar
Judit Molnar is a Leverhulme Trust Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow. She has recently completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Oxford, where her research focused on the impact of home state ideologies on diaspora subjectivities amongst Hungarian and Venezuelan migrants in London, the United Kingdom. In 2024-25, Judit also held a fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
Judit has a Master's degree in Anthropology from the University of Vienna, Austria and another MLitt degree in Cultural Studies from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has previously worked with the UN's International Organization for Migration, the European Commission's Cabinet for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport, and the Hungarian State Secretariat for Nation Policy.
Research Interest
As part of her Leverhulme Trust award at the Australian National University, Judit Molnar is currently revising her doctoral dissertation into a book manuscript. Her PhD research examined how and why migrants remain politically, economically, socially, and emotionally invested in their countries of origin after migration. Focusing on contrasting autocratic contexts, she analysed how far-right and far-left regimes develop divergent diaspora policies that assign distinct roles to emigrant populations, and how these policies and state narratives shape migrants’ diasporic subjectivities across borders. Her research is based on ethnographic fieldwork with Hungarian and Venezuelan migrants living in London, United Kingdom.