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Kristóf Nagy is a historical anthropologist and sociologist specializing in the cultural politics of contemporary far-right governments. With a background in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a Ph.D. in social sciences from Central European University, his research explores the intersections of imperialism, cultural infrastructures and far-right culture wars through ethnographic and historical methods. He is affiliated with the Central European Research Institute for Art History and the Eötvös Loránd University and is a member of the Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet”. For seven years, he has edited Fordulat, a journal of left social theory. In the 2025–2026 academic year, he will be a Fung Global Fellow at Princeton, where he will work on his first monograph examining far-right cultural policies and their global historical connections, with a focus on Hungary as a laboratory for contemporary culture wars.