Dorottya Rédai

Snowball Award

2021

Dorottya Rédai was nominated by Andrea Kriszán for her interdisciplinary and unwavering work as an independent scholar and activist working on gender in education. Based in Budapest, Rédai received her PhD in Comparative Gender Studies from CEU in 2015. Based on her dissertation, her monograph ‘Exploring Sexuality in Schools. The Intersectional Reproduction of Inequality’ was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. Since 2015, she has worked as a researcher and trainer in international educational research and development projects at CEU, ELTE, and Anthropolisz Association. Currently she is at the CEU Democracy Institute. Besides her academic activities, she is an active member of Labrisz Lesbian Association, where she works as a trainer in the school program ‘Getting to Know LGBT People,’ and currently as the coordinator of the successful book project ‘Meseország mindenkié’ (Wonderland is for Everyone), which has faced vicious attacks by right-wing political actors and has become a bestseller soon to be translated and published in English and other languages.

https://people.ceu.edu/dorottya_redai

https://labrisz.hu/literature/labrisz_books