Ivan Kalmar
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Ivan Kalmar’s training is in anthropological linguistics and semiotics, and in his research and teaching he has addressed a wide range of topics ranging from Inuit language and the mythology of the computer, to the image of Muslims and Jews in western Christian cultural history. Currently his research focuses on Islamophobia and populism in Europe, with a focus on differences and relations between the post-socialist members of the European Union and the rest (including between the East and the West in Germany). He is keenly interested in how Islamophobia is generated and spread online. Prof. Kalmar’s co-edited Orientalism and the Jews (University Press of New England, 2005) and published Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power (Routledge, 2012). His articles appear as book chapters and journal articles in publications dealing with the topics of race and religion, Jews and Muslims, language and nationalism, and others. He is currently editing a special journal issue on Islamophobia in the East of the European Union.
Research Interest
Islamophobia, especially in East Central and Western Europe; representations of Jews and Muslims in western cultural history; race, nation, and religion
