BIOGRAPHY

Maria Subert earned an M.A. in Philosophy at Eotvos Lorant University, Budapest, Hungary. She continued her studies at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany – including the historic seminar, “The Ethical-Political Horizon of Post-Modernity,” taught by Karl-Otto Apel, Jürgen Habermas, and Richard Bernstein.
After relocating to the United States, she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication Studies, specializing in Rhetoric and Public Culture (related area: Media), in the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. 

She has presented at U.S. and international conferences and published multiple articles about failed intercultural communications, moral and ethical communication, hate crimes, social justice, peace and conflict, communications and ethnic politics, and Roma / Gypsy heritage and narratives. 

She finished her post-graduate studies at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, Geneva, Switzerland, in 2020, specializing in conflict and crisis management and strategic planning.
She has produced documentary films around the world. Her documentary, “Who Carried the Sun” was the official selection of the 101th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV. 


EDUCATION

  • PhD at Scripps College of Communication Ohio University
  • MA in Philosophy at Eotvos Lorant University, Budapest, Hungary


AREAS OF INTEREST

Intercultural communications, moral and ethical communication, hate crimes, social justice, peace and conflict, and identity narratives. 


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Subert, M. (2019). Motives and legacies behind 2008-2009 Hungarian Roma murders and apologies, Contemporary Justice Review 22(1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/
    10282580.2019.1576127
    Open access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10282580.2019.1576127
  •  Subert, M. (2017). Intercultural communication in the Roma-Hungarian conflict: The Roma murders. Journal of Communication, Media, Economics, 8(1), 101-127.
  • Delpit, L. (2013). A szorzás mindenkié. Hogyan temessük be az iskolai teljesítmény szakadékot. Zs. Kereszty & M. Subert (Eds.). Budapest, HU: Közigazgatási és Igazságügyi Hivatal. (See English version below.)
  • Delpit, L. (2013) Multiplication is for white people. Raising expectations for other people’s children. New York: The New Press.

WORK IN PROGRESS

  • Subert, M. (2020). We are not victims: The Roma, an outdoor art gallery and the same  old story: Critical thinking in communication for development. In U. Oswald Spring & H. G. Brauch (Eds.). IPRA Handbook on Sustainable Peace. Berlin, Germany: Springer (in progress). 
  • Subert, M. (2020). Reconsidering the Hungarian Roma fresco village as physical, political and communicative space. J. Molnár, N. Merkovity & G. Hajzer (Eds.), CEECOM 2018. Szeged, Hungary: Pólay Foundation (in progress).

Phone: 718-518-6577
Email: MSUBERT@hostos.cuny.edu
Webpage: https://cuny.academia.edu/MariaSubertPhD