Ágnes Fülemile is currently director of the Balassi Institute – Hungarian Cultural Center in New York. Before accepting the position of director at the Center in late 2011, Professor Fülemile had worked (since 1985) as senior research fellow and Head of the Historical Ethnography Department at the Institute of Ethnology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. For the time of her assignment as director, she is on leave from the Institute of Ethnology. She holds a PhD in Ethnography from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, and an MPhil in History of Dress from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She has vast research and teaching experience in the United States as well, having held the Hungarian Chair at Indiana University (2006-2009), and several Fulbright Scholar Grants (UC Berkeley, Metropolitan Museum, NY, and Rutgers University, 1992-93 and 1999). She has published extensively in the field of anthropology (history of dress) as well as doing field work in Hungary, Romania and the United States.
She is co-curating the Hungary program at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, working with James Deutsch, the Smithsonian curator.
