Virág Molnár is Associate Professor of Sociology. Her research explores the intersections of culture, politics, social change and knowledge production in Eastern Europe, with special focus on urban and material culture. She has written about architecture and state formation in socialist and postsocialist Eastern Europe, the post-1989 reconstruction of Berlin, and the new housing landscape of postsocialist cities. Her book Building the State Architecture, Politics, and State Formation in Postwar Central Europe (2013) received the Mary Douglas Prize from the American Sociological Association. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, and the American Council of Learned Societies.