Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University
Dora Vargha
Research Assistant
Dora Vargha is a second year PhD student in Modern European History. Her research focuses on the history of the body, sexuality, reproduction and the social history of medicine. She is currently working on poliomyelitis outbreaks in Hungary in the 1950s. She has contributed an article on Hungarian feminist novelist Margit Kaffka to the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Her past project on the prostitute’s body in 19th century Hungarian medical discourse was published in the Budapest Quarterly in 2005 titled “The Medicalization of Sin.”
