Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born: August 3, 1963 in Budapest, Hungary
Citizenship: Hungarian
PRESENT POSITION
- Senior Researcher, Demographic Research Institute, Central Statistical Office. Budapest, Hungary.
- Habilitated Associate Professor Institute of Communication and Sociology, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary.
- Professor, Tomori Pál College, Kalocsa, Hungary (on leave)
EDUCATION AND DEGREES
2022-23
Doctor of the Academy title process initiated in June 2022, Career overview and thesis review finished and waiting for public debate (Title of the dissertation: A migrációs fordulat és Kelet-Európa. Globális történeti szociológiai elemzés)
2021 April
Habilitation Corvinus University of Budapest (Dissertation title: Title Comparative analysis of demographic and migratory processes and discourses. Methods and problems)
1999-2002
Ph.D. in History, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary. Ph.D. Thesis: Population Change and Agrarian Towns between the 18th and 20th Centuries. (June 8, 2002: No. 8/2002.PhD).
2001
Ph.D. scholarship: The Demography of Central and Eastern Europe and Analysis of Population Changes and Differences. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
1986-87
Visiting Graduate, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University, United Kingdom
1986
MA in Sociology and MA in Economics, Budapest University of Economics, Hungary. Thesis: Family and Household Formation in Buda in the Early 19th Century.
1977-81
High School Diploma (1981), Nagy Lajos Gimnázium, Pécs, Hungary
ACADEMIC HONORS, PROFESSORSHIPS AND AWARDS
2024 Spring: Selected as a Vienna Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business. The Vienna Karl Polanyi Visiting Professorship is a cooperation project of University of Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business [WU], Central European University [CEU]), the International Karl Polanyi Society (IKPS) and the Volkshochschule Wien (VHS Wien) and is supported by the Vienna Chamber of Labour and the City of Vienna
2021 Demográfiai Osztályközi Állandó Bizottság, MTA tagja (member of the Demographic Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
2019 March-July, Visiting fellow Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
2017 Az Egyetemért Emlékérem (Pro Univesitate Medal), Corvinus Egyetem Budapest
2017- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Stanovništvo, Beograd
2017 April Fellow at the South East Europe Institute, Regensburg, Germany
2017- March Member of the Advisory Board Center For Advanced Studies in Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 January and February Fellow at Center For Advanced Studies in Sofia, Bulgaria
2014-17 President of the Steering Commmittee, European Network for Universal and Global History (ENIUGH). Co-organizer of the event The Fifth ENIUGH Congress, Budapest, hosted by both the Central European University (Department of History) and Corvinus University (Karl Polanyi Research Centre at the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy), supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Research Centre for Humanities
2016- Karl Polanyi Institute – Advisory Council
2014-2022 Founding Director of Karl Polanyi Research Center for Global Social Studies.
2104 – Member of the Editorial Board of Corvinus Journal of Sociology
2008-2014 Marie Curie fellowship evaluator and vice chair, European Commission
2004- Editor of the English edition of Demográfia, the Hungarian demographic quarterly
2012 CEU Institute of Advanced Studies, senior fellow November 2012-January 2013, affiliated fellow, February 2013- May 2013.
2004 Spring Fulbright Instructor, Center for Central and East European Studies, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
2002-2003: Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest.
2002 March East/West Discourses. EUSSIRF Research scholarship to the British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
- Ph.D. in History at Debrecen University, Hungary, qualified as Summa Cum Laude
1999-2001 East versus West. Identities, Intellectual Strategies and Popular Images. Research Support Scheme Scholarship, Soros Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic
1996-1997 Fulbright Instructor, Department of History, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
1996 Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Young Scholars
1993 Graduate Scholarship at Cambridge University, United Kingdom
1986 First prize in the university competition of student papers at Budapest University of Economics, Hungary
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY TILL THE PRESENT POSITIONS
June, 1993 –September, 1996 Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
April, 1991– September, 1994 Director of Széchenyi College, Budapest University of Economics E)
September, 1987 – Sept., 1991 Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, BUE
FUNDED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2023 Workpackage leader: Transforming Anxieties of Ageing in Southeastern Europe. Political, Social, and Cultural Narratives of Demographic Change. Volkswagen Stiftung.
2021- Researcher: Well-being and Migration: The Hungary-Austria Migration Nexus (MIGWELL). Hungarian and Asutrian National Research Councils.
2020- Researcher: Mediatized EU Mediatized Discourses on Europeanization and Their Representations in Public Perceptions https://mediatized.eu/partners/.
2017-2019 Quality Assurance at YOUMIG Improving institutional capacities and fostering cooperation to tackle the impacts of transnational youth migration. The Danube Transnational Programme, European Territorial Cooperation (ETC) Total Fund: 2718853,1 Euro
2016-2018 Partner at Reconsidering European Contributions to Global Justice (GLOBUS). Migration section led by Sonia Lucarelli, University of Bologna
Since 2008 Co-researcher: Developmental Idealism Studies. Population Studies Center University of Michigan.
2012-14 Project Leader: Migration and labor market in South Eastern Europe. SEE program. SEEMIG. (3 300 000 Euro, 18 partners)
2009 Project Leader. The Reform of the Statistical System on Migrants from Third Countries. European Integration Fund, Hungary, EIA/2007/3.2.3.1. (50,000 Euro)
2009 Állampolgári Tanácskozás a bevándorlók integrációjáról European Integration Fund, Hungary EIA/2007/3.1.1.1. Corvinus University (co-researcher)
2005- 2007 Workpackage leader in “Needs for female immigrants and their integration into ageing societies.” Comparison of 9 EU countries FP6-2004-SSP-4 (1,069,261 Euro)
2003-2004 Project Leader Globalization, ethnicity, and labor migration: USAID, Siberian Center for Applied Research in Economics, Russia. Demographic Research Institute, Hungary and Center for Ethnic Relations and Nationalism at Helsinki University, Finland (total fund 85,000 USD)
2002- Globalizáció és migráció (Globalization and Migration) within the project of A magyarországi bevándorlás okai és következményei (Causes and Consequences of Immigration into Hungary) NKFP-5/0084/2002. National Educational and Research Fund, Hungary (30,000 USD)
2002 March EUSSIRF scholarship to the British Library of Political and Economic Science: East/West Discourses
1999-2001 East versus West. Identities, intellectual strategies and popular images. Research Support Scheme, Soros Foundation, Prague (13,100 USD)
1999-2001 Mezőgazdasági népesség élettörténetei (Life histories of Agricultural Population) Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alap (National Science Research Fund) (HUF 1,400,000)
1996-7 Élettörténetek és a demográfia (Life Histories and Demography) ATA (Active Society Foundation) (HUF 150,000)
1995-97 Örökösödés Magyarországon a 18. és a 19. században (Inheritance in Hungary in the 18th and 19th Century) Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alap (National Science Research Fund) In May 1995, Hungary (HUF 370,000.)
1995-96 (with Éva Kovács) Premodern elemek a modern társadalomtudományokban (Premodern Elements in Modern Social Sciences) Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alap (National Science Research Fund) In May 1995, Hungary (HUF 300,000)