PRESENT POSITION

1993-present Professor, Department of Political Science, CENTRAL EUROPEAN

UNIVERSITY (2005-present: Professor, 1993-2005 Associate Professor) Budapest, Hungary. www.ceu.hu, Ezt a címet a spamrobotok ellen védjük. Engedélyezze a Javascript használatát, hogy megtekinthesse.

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

2009 Dept. of Political Science, Columbia University, New York USA.

2008 Dept. of Political Science, Bologna University, Italy

2004 Dept. of Political Science, Columbia University, New York, USA.

1999-2000 Dept. of Government, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.

2000 Dept. of Politics, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA

2000 School of Social Studies, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.

1993 Dept. of Sociology, Nottingham University, Nottingham, U. K.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

(2005-present Professor; 1993-2005 Associate Professor; 1983-93 Assistant Professor. (Since 1997, part time only).

2005-06 Minister of Culture of Hungary

1991-93 Research fellow, Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

2008 Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Stockholm-Södertörns University, Sweden.

2000 European University Institute, Jean Monnet Fellowship, Department of Political and Social Sciences & Robert Schuman Institute for Advanced Study, Florence, Italy.

1998 Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) Wassenaar, The Netherlands

1997-98 Sussex European Institute, Eötvös Fellowship, University of Sussex, Brighton, U. K.

1993 Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin) Germany.

1993 The Publication of the Year (Hungarian Sociological Association)

1992 Institute for Political Science, Tübingen University, Germany.

1991 Ferenc Erdei Prize (Hungarian Sociological Association)

1990 Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, (IWM), Vienna, Austria.

EDUCATION

1992 PhD. in Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

1990 Institute for Humane Studies, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA.

1988 Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

1985 M.A. in Sociology, Insitute of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)

1984 Erasmus University, Rotterdam

1983 Doctor of Law and M.A. in Political Science, School of Law & Government, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

2008- Member of the Executive Committee of the European Confederation for Political Science Associations (ECPSA)

2003-5 President of the Hungarian Political Science Association (HPSA)

2003 Habilitated Doctor in Political Science. ELTE, Budapest.

2003-5 Member of the Board and Tutor at Erasmus Invisible College, Budapest.

2002 Member of the Executive Council of the European Political Science Network

1991- Member of the Board of Hungarian Political Science Association.

1988- Member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA); Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS

2008- Member of the editorial board of Taiwan Journal of Democracy

2008- Member of the editorial board of Journal of Political Science Education.

2006- Member of the editorial board of CEU Political Science Review.

2002 Member of the editorial board of European Political Science. (An international journal of the European Consortium for Political Research.

2000- Member of the editorial board of the Hungarian Politikatudományi Szemle.  [Political Science Review]

1994-97 Member of the editorial board of Constellations (An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory), Cambridge, Massachusetts

1992 Founder and co-editor of the Hungarian Politikatudományi Szemle. [Political Science Review]

1991 Member of the editorial board of the Hungarian Szociológiai Szemle. [Sociological Review]

RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION

Theories of political change, democratization, communism and new democracies in Europe.

The political elite of the regime change and the roundtable negotiations of 1989.

The public role of the intellectuals, political ideologies, and discourses

EU-SPONSORED INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH

2007-2011 EUROSPHERE-project sponsored by the European Union. Scheme FP6

2007-2011 „European Public Sphere and Citizenship” Leader of the Hungarian research team and member of the Steering Committee.

2003 GLOCALMIG-project sponsored by the European Union. FP5. „Migrants, Minorities, Belonging, and Citizenship: Glocalization and Participation Dilemmas in EU and Small States” Leader of the Hungarian research team.

SOME MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

Selected list

„Hungary since 1989” (co-author) in Sabrina P. Ramet ed. (2010), Central and Southeastern Europe Since 1989. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 204-32.

Az anarchizmus klasszikusai (Classic Anarchism) (co-editor) Budapest: Mundus, 2009.

Anarcho-demokraták [Anarcho-Democrats] (co-author) Budapest: Gondolat, 2007.

Ars politica. (author) Budapest: Jószöveg, 2007.

Migrants, Minorities, Belonging and Citizenship: The Case of Hungary. (co-author) Bergen: BRIC, 2004.

The Communist Successor Parties of Central and Eastern Europe. (co-editor and contributor) Armonk, New York – London: M. E. Sharpe, 2002.

Alkotmányos forradalom. [Constitutional Revolution] (editor and contributor) Budapest: Új Mandátum, 2000.

Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe. (editor and contributor) Budapest-New York: Central European University Press, 1999.

Magyar panoptikum [Hungarian Waxworks: Political Essays] (author) Budapest: Kávé, 1996.

Lawful Revolution in Hungary, 1989-94. (associate editor and contributor) Boulder: Social Science Monographs, distributed by the Columbia University Press, 1995.

Democratic Legitimacy in Post-Communist Societies. (editor and contributor) Budapest: T-Twins, Tübingen: International Center, 1994.

Liberty and Socialism: The Writings of Libertarian Socialists in Hungary, 1994-1919. (co-editor) Savage, MD.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991.

(Please, find the full list of publications separately: www.ceu.hu )

TEACHING SPECIALIZATION

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1994-present CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, Budapest

Courses taught: Revolution and the State; Transitions to Democracy in Historical and Comparative Perspective; Research Seminar in Comparative Politics; Political Change; Comparative Political Research; Central European Politics; Elite Theory; Contemporary Political Ideologies; New Democracies in Central Europe; Political Sociology; Political & Cultural Elites.

2009. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York

Courses taught: Theories of Political change, Central European Politics

2008. BOLOGNA UNIVERSITY, Italy.

Course taught: Regime Change and the Transformation of Elites

2004 Dept. of Political Science, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, USA

Courses taught: Political Change; Central European Politics

1999-2000 Department of Government, SMITH COLLEGE, Northampton, Mass. USA.

Courses taught: Comparative Communism: Politics in East Central Europe, 1945-1989; Democratization and Changing Political Ideas in East Central Europe; The Post-Communist Era.

2000 Dept. of Politics, MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, South Hadley, Mass. & School of Social Studies, HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, Amherst, Mass. USA.

Course taught: Transitions to Democracy

1993 School of Social Studies, NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY, U. K.

Course taught: Democratization in East Central Europe

1990 Wisconsin-California Education Abroad Program, Corvinus University.

Course taught: Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

1990 Rajk College at the Budapest University of Economics

Course taught: Theory of Anarchism and Libertarianism

1983 School of Law and Political Science, EÖTVÖS UNIVERSITY (ELTE)

Courses taught: Political Sociology; Social Change; Introduction to Social and Political Theory

SUMMER UNIVERSITY

Supervisor:

Central European University

„Cultural Policies in Europe” (2007)

Convenor:

Tübingen University

„Value Orientations, Movements, Parties: Alternative Ways to Civil Society?” (2001); „Political Culture, Legitimacy, and Institutional Choice in Post-Communist Societies” (2000); „Political Culture and Democratization in Post-Communist Societies” (1999)

„The Institutions of New Democracies: Do They Matter?” (1997) „Actors or Structures? Obstacles to Democratization in the New Democracies” (1996)

PUBLIC ACTIVITIES

PUBLIC SERVICE

1990 Spokesman of Fidesz

1989 Participant at the Hungarian National Roundtable Talks as negotiator delegated by the Opposition Roundtable

CONSULTANCY

2007-8 Advisor to the Minister of Environmental Issues

2003-4 Advisor to the Prime Minister

2003 Advisor to the Minister of Equal Opportunity

1991-92 Advisor to the Parliamentary Faction of Fidesz

CIVIC AND CULTURAL ACTIVITY

2006 Co-founder of the International Opera Foundation Eszterhaza (IOFE)

2001 Member of the Presidium of the Green Academy, Hungary

1996-2003 Director of the Board of the Civic Education Project (CEP) Hungary

1996 Member of the Board for the Support of Books in Higher Education

JOURNALISM

2003-2004 Senior columnist, Magyar Hírlap.

2000-2002 Columnist, Kontextus.hu (magazine in the humanities and social sciences)

1992-1996 Senior columnist, Magyar Narancs (political and cultural weekly)

1989-1992 Founder and co-editor, Magyar Narancs (political and cultural bi-weekly)

Since 1989, altogether more than 200 articles and interviews in leading Hungarian newspapers (Népszabadság, Magyar Hírlap, Magyar Nemzet, Népszava), weekly magazines (HVG, Figyelő, Világ, Élet és Irodalom, Magyar Narancs, Heti Válasz), internet journals (kontextus.hu) and a few in the German newspaper, Frankfurter Rundschau).

JOURNALISTIC HONOR

1993 Pulitzer Prize for the members of editorial community of Magyar Narancs for “journalistic excellence and the renewal of journalistic language” (Pulitzer Prize awarded in the U.S. and in Hungary).

INVITED LECTURES AND PARTICIPATIONS IN CONFERENCES (selected list)

Australia Univ. of New South Wales (Sydney), Univ. of Western Australia (Perth)

Austria Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna), University of Vienna

Belgium University of Brussels

Bulgaria Sofia University

Brasil Instituto Liberal (Rio de Janeiro)

Canada University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC), Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, BC), University of Toronto, McGill University (Montreal)

China Institute for Political Science (Beijing)

Costa Rica San José

Czechia Charles University (Prague)

Denmark Aarhus University

France Science-po (Paris), Nanterre (Paris), University of Strasbourg

Germany Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin),

Humboldt University (Berlin), Tübingen University, Konstanz University, University of München, Osteuropa Forschung Bremen, Institute for Advanced Study Essen, University of Bielefeld, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, University of Marburg, Viadrina University (Frankfurt an der Oder), University of Leipzig

Ireland University College Dublin

Italy European University Institute (Florence), Bologna University, University of

Rome, University of Bolzano, University of Trieste

Macedonia Skopje University

Netherlands Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) (Wassenaar), University of

Utrecht, University of Leiden

Norway Oslo University, University of Bergen

Poland Batory Foundation (Warsaw), Jagellonian University (Krakow)

Romania University of Bucharest

Russia University of St. Petersburg

Slovakia University of Bratislava, Institute for Civic Diplomacy

Slovenia University of Ljubljana, School of Advance Social Studies

South Africa University of Cape Town

South Korea University of Seoul

Spain University of Madrid, University of Valencia

Sweden CBEES, Stockholm-Södertörns University

Switzerland Geneva University

Turkey Marmara University (Istanbul)

U. K. Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex (Brighton), University of

London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies London, University of Nottingham, University of Liverpool, University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, University of Manchester, University of Leicester, University of Kent (Canterbury), Bath

USA Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), Columbia University (New York, NY), Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD), University of Washington (Seattle, WA), Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA), New School University (New York, NY), San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA), Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (Washington, D.C.), Indiana University (Bloomington IN), Smith College (Northampton, MA), Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA), Hampshire College (Amherst, MA), University of Philadelphia, George Washington University (Seattle, WA), University of Chicago (IL), University of Honolulu

Yugoslavia Alternative Academic Educational Network (Belgrade)