Marek Mikuš

Marek Mikuš (1984) is a social anthropologist of political and economic life in contemporary Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. He was born in Bratislava, grew up in Trnava, studied in Prague and London, where he received his PhD from the London School of Economics. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle and at Trinity College Dublin. As of 2019, he leads the research group "Peripheral Debt: Money, Risk and Politics in Eastern Europe" at the Max Planck Institute, which examines household debt in Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. His doctoral research focused on civil society, the state and reform in Serbia and resulted in the monograph Frontiers of Civil Society: Government and Hegemony in Serbia (Berghahn Books, 2018). In recent years, he has mainly researched household and individual finance in Croatia and, more recently, in Slovakia. Together with Petra Rodik, he compiled a volume on Households and Financialization in Europe Mapping Variegated Patterns in Semi-Peripheries (Routledge, 2021). In terms of theory, his work is mainly inspired by materialist and pragmatic approaches in anthropology and interdisciplinary dialogue with economics, geography and sociology. (2022)