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The Appalachian Hungarian Heritage Project: Dr. Anna Fenyvesi’s Fulbright Findings

March 15, 2025 • The Hungarian Heritage Podcast • Season 3 • Episode 8

Welcome to this episode of the Hungarian Heritage Podcast. I am thrilled to welcome back, Dr. Anna Fenyvesi. As many of you know, Anna has been my guest on an episode when we discussed her role as co-editor of the Hungarian Roots and American Dreams book, and she has also co-hosted episodes with me as we Celebrated Hungarian Heritage Together when we interviewed contributing authors and their stories that were included in Hungarian Roots and American Dreams. On this episode of the podcast, Dr. Anna Fenyvesi’s is here in her professional role as a Sociolinguist. She is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Szeged in Hungary, and on today’s episode, she will discuss her research as a Fulbright Scholar that she recently completed at the University of West Virginia where she studied the linguistic heritage of American Hungarians in Appalachia. We discuss how Americans use and speak the Hungarian language outside of Hungary, how we establish our social relationships through language, and what factors affect language integration. Not only that, but we also talk about Anna’s cemetery visits and the interviews she conducted with Hungarian decedents in the Appalachian region. I am sure that you will enjoy this episode, because you will be able to make so many connections to your Hungarian relatives that emigrated from Hungary to other places in the world.

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