Andrea Pető is an internationally recognized academic and broadcaster. She is a Professor at the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Vienna, Austria, a Research Affiliate of the CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest, and a Doctor of Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Pető is an internationally sought-after public speaker, and her works have been translated into 25 languages. She has held guest professorships at universities in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Israel, Serbia, and Sweden.

She received numerous awards for her contributions to public life, including the 2018 All European Academies (ALLEA) Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values and the 2022 University of Oslo Human Rights Award. She is a Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Recent publications include The Women of the Arrow Cross Party: Invisible Hungarian Perpetrators in the Second World War, Palgrave, Macmillan, 2020, and Forgotten Massacre: Budapest 1944, DeGruyter, 2021.

The highly contested category of gender is always central to her work as a researcher and teacher, and also to my engagement as a feminist public intellectual. During the last few years, she has analyzed and debated the relationship between illiberalism and the many anti-gender campaigns targeting higher education, gender studies, and gender scholars. Andrea Petö has been tireless in speaking out about the importance of historical knowledge and sustained conversation in the public sphere, creating sustainable and democratic societies where human rights are at the core.

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