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Gabriella Lukacs is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh’s Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. Her academic career spans media anthropology, gender studies, and labor analysis, focusing on Japan and Hungary. She has authored two monographs and edited special journal issues.
- Duke University Ph.D., 2005
- Faculty at University of Pittsburgh since 2005
Research Interests include the political economy of analog and digital media, authoritarian populism in Hungary, affective labor in Japan’s digital economy, and gendered patterns of discrimination. Her work bridges object-oriented ontology, infrastructure theory, and feminist economics.
Current Projects involve a manuscript on media activism in illiberal Hungary and a fourth book examining single-person households in Japan through AI home assistants and dating apps. She also explores the intersection of neoliberal globalization and gendered labor divisions.
Key Publications address topics like digital labor exploitation, cultural globalization, and media’s role in political resistance. Her courses range from contemporary anthropological theory to cybercultures and gender studies.
