About
dr. Attila Melegh
Senior Researcher, Demographic Research Institute, Central Statistical Office. Budapest, Hungary.
Habilitated Associate Professor Institute of Social and Political Sciences, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary.
Professor, Tomori Pál College, Kalocsa, Hungary (on leave)
Research fields:
– Population discourses
– Migration
– Global social change in the 20th century
Attila Melegh is a sociologist, economist and historian. Attila Melegh studied economics and sociology at Karl Marx University of Economics and social history at Oxford University. He has a PhD in history from Debrecen University. He is habilitated associate professor at Corvinus University, Budapest, and a senior researcher at the Demographic Research Institute. Editor of Eszmélet and Demográfia English Edition journal. He was the founding director of Karl Polányi Research Center at Corvinus University between 2014-22. He has participated and conducted more than 12 major international research projects. For Spring 2024 he has been selected as a Vienna Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business. Beside another 120 publications he is the author of the book ‘On the East/West Slope, Globalization, Nationalism, Racism and Discourses on Central and Eastern Europe’ published at CEU Press. His new, 2023 book at Palgrave-Macmillan is: The Migration Turn and Eastern Europe: A Global Historical Sociological Analysis.