Rank:
Postdoctoral Fellow
Rank:
Lecturer
Contact information
Dóra Mérai is an art historian and archaeologist. She defended her PhD at CEU in Medieval Studies, and she taught and did research in the Cultural Heritage Studies Program between 2014 and 2023. She published a book and several papers on various aspects of visual and material culture and commemoration, Renaissance art, as well as the historiography of art history and archaeology. Her current research in various projects addresses the adaptive reuse of heritage (OpenHeritage – H2020), with special emphasis on industrial sites (CONSIDER – H2020; From Burden to Resource: Industrial Heritage in Central-Eastern Europe – Visegrad), the problems of periodization in art history, and the role of material and visual culture in the history of emotions. She taught courses for the Cultural Heritage Studies Program in the field of memory studies, visual studies, heritage policy, adaptive heritage reuse, and the historiography of cultural heritage.
Qualification
PhD in Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest (2017)
MA in Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest (2007)
MA in Archaeology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (2006)
MA in Art History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (2005)
