Marc Roscoe Loustau

Dr. Marc Roscoe Loustau is a cultural anthropologist and expert on eastern European politics and foreign affairs, based in Budapest, Hungary. He is also a journalist reporting on religion and nationalism in eastern Europe, and is the author of the Substack newsletter, At the Edges with Marc Loustau (https://marcroscoeloustau.substack.com/).

Marc actively publishes in anthropology and religious studies journals. He has given invited lectures at European and North American universities and presented at numerous international conferences. His book, Hungarian Catholic Intellectuals in Romania: Reforming Apostles, explores how contemporary Hungarian Catholic intellectuals are forging an ethical concept of nationhood.

He has given commentary for the BBC and France 24, and he is a repeat guest on the Fast Politics Podcast with Molly Jong-Fast. His opinion articles and reported features have appeared in Balkan Insight, Inkstick, the Christian Science Monitor, America: The Jesuit Review, La Croix International, the Christian Century, The Tablet, and the National Catholic Reporter.