Kavecsánszki, Máté

Máté Kavecsánszki was born in 1985 in Miskolc. At present, he lives in Debrecen and has been a senior lecturer at the Department of Ethnography of the University of Debrecen since 2018. He obtained his degree in ethnography and history in 2010 at the University of Debrecen. He earned his doctoral dissertation summa cum laude in 2014 in ethnography and cultural antropology at the same university. From 2012 to 2014, he was assistant lecturer, then senior lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences of Eszterházy Károly College. From 2014 to 2018, he worked as a research fellow of the MTA-DE Ethnography Research Group. Since 2010, he has also been teaching in a secondary school as an external staff member. His research focuses on the transformation of traditional folk culture, which he investigates from the perspective of cultural and social history, and historical antropology. The majority of his publications pertain to the topic of dance antropology and ethnochoreology. As a secondary school and university mentor teacher, he has published numerous articles on the methodology of talent development. Between 2017–2020, he was awarded the MTA Bolyai Scholarship once, and the New National Excellence Programme Bolyai+ Scholarship twice. In 2015, his monograph titled “Dance and Community” won the Petőfi S. János Publication Prize. In 2016, he was the recipient of the Academy Youth Award, and in 2020, the Jankó János Award of the Hungarian Association of Ethnography. In 2021, he received the MTA Bolyai Certificate of Merit.