Boróka is currently a Lecturer for the European Studies BA Programme. With her backround of a BSc Honours degree at PPLE (Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics), and a MA degree in Eastern European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, she is now working for the Faculty of Humanities.

Boróka specialises in Central and Eastern European (post-socialist) pop culture, demonstrated in her MA thesis entitled “Beyond Squatting, Vodka and Adidas: Aesthetics, Performativity and Subcultural Identity in the Gopnik Subculture.” Her research focused on exploring the gopniki, a previously unresearched youth subculture rooted in nostalgia for the socialist past, and their formation of an alternative East European identity in a post-socialist subcultural space.

Boróka’s further research interests concern (post-)socialist nostalgia in the former Eastern Bloc, as well as minority policies and their execution in Ukraine and their consequences on Ukraine’s EU accession prospects.