Zsuzsanna Vargha was awarded her PhD in Sociology with distinction from Columbia University, New York, in October 2009. Her thesis was entitled "Technologies of Persuasion: Personal Selling and the Production of Markets in Consumer Finance." A postdoctoral fellow at the MPIfG since October 2009, Vargha is working on a project on "Social Lending: Interaction and Trust in Alternative Electronic Markets of Finance."
