Curriculum Vitae and Professional Summary of Antal Örkény

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1 Curriculum Vitae and Professional Summary of Antal Örkény Professor of Sociology Antal Orkeny is professor of sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Eotvos Loránd University of Budapest. Between 1996 and 2012 Antal Orkeny was the chair of the ELTE-UNESCO Minority Studies Department which offers an MA program in ethnic and minority studies, from 2006 he is the director of the Institute for Social Relations including three departments (Minority Studies, Social Psychology, Cultural Anthropology), and from 2011 he is heading the Post Graduate (PhD) Program in social sciences at the ELTE. His major research fields are cross-national surveys on popular perceptions of social Justice, national identity and national stereotypes, Roma minority and prejudice against Roma, border identity, and interethnic relations in the Carpathian Basin. Two books of him were published in English: one in 1992 with Gyorgy Csepeli, titled Ideology and Political Beliefs in Hungary. The Twilight of State Socialism. London and New York: Pinter Publishers, and the other in 2000 with Gyorgy Csepeli and Maria Szekelyi, titled Grappling with National Identity. How Nations See Each Others in Central Europe. Budapest, Akademiai Kiadó. He has also published ten monographs in Hungarian language including his two new releases in 2011: one of social integration of different migrant groups into the Hungarian society, and the other on social justice and generational equity in contemporary Hungary. Date of birth: Place of birth: Hungary Home Address: H Budapest, Mese utca 5. Phone and fax: Office Address: Social Sciences Faculty of Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest 1117 Budapest, Pázmány Sétány 1/a., HUNGARY Education Tel: /extension 6827 Fax Habilitated Doctor, ELTE DSc, Doctor of Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Ph.D., 1996, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Doctoral Degree, 1986, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest: Sociology MA , Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest: History and Sociology Professional Experiences Current Position Professor, Social Sciences Faculty, Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest Guest lecturer, CEU Nationalism Studies Program

2 Professional History 2010 Fall (December): Visiting Fellow at the Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, GESIS, Cologne Lecturer at the Education Abroad Program of University of California (ELTE) : Visiting lecturer, European Master Program in Human Rights and Democratization, Venice-the Lido, Italy : Széchenyi Professor Fellowship 2002, October 2003, February: Associate Fellow, Collegium Budapest, Focus Group on Honesty and Trust 2001 Fall (October): Visiting Fellow at the Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, University Cologne 1999 Spring: Fulbright Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, USA Associate Professor of Sociology, Social Sciences Faculty, Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest 1995 Spring: Visiting Professor, JPTE, Pécs Lecturer at the Hungarian Film Academy 1995 Fall: Guest lecturer at Bard Collage, N.Y Spring term: Visiting Professor, Political Science Department, Oregon State University, Corvallis, US Lecturer at the Budapest Program of The American University, Washington DC.(ELTE) 1993 Spring term: IREX Visiting Professor, ISR, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1992 Summer term: Assistant Professor, ISPSR, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Visiting Professor, JATE, Szeged and : Lecturer at the Education Abroad Program of University of California and Wisconsin (Economic University of Budapest) Assistant Professor of Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest 1984 Spring term: Assistant Professor of Political Sciences, East European Fellowship Program, Columbia University N.Y Associate Professor of Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest : Assistant Lecturer of Sociology, Institute of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest Administrative Experience 2011 Director, PhD Program, ELTE TáTK 2006 Director, Institute for Social Relations, Social Sciences Faculty, ELTE Head of ELTE-UNESCO Minority Studies Department, Social Sciences Faculty, Eötvös Loránd University Academic liaison of the Educational Abroad Program of the University of California at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest l Academic director of the Educational Abroad Program of the University of California at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest Director, Collage of Excellence, Social Sciences Faculty, ELTE Director of Minority Research Institute Director of Ethnic and Minority Studies Program, Institute of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University Executive Board Member for Foreign Relations, Institute of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University

3 Teaching Experiences Twentieth century social history of Hungary Theoretical and empirical problems of social mobility and social stratification Research seminar on social mobility Introduction to political sociology Sociology of political ideologies and political legitimation The social construction of values, beliefs and attitudes in the contemporary Hungarian society Social justice, political justice, individual justice in a comparative perspective Construction of knowledge of national identity and national stereotypes Inter-ethnic relations Generational justice Deliberative poll Cross-national survey method Research Fields Sociology of higher education from a statistical aspect The social background and aspirations of university students at the ELTE Social stratification and social mobility (historical approach) The recruitment of post-1945 communist cadres in Hungary through the life-span analyses of certain groups of cadres Statistical analyses of the officers of the Austro-Hungarian Army Ideological-political orientations of certain professional groups in Hungary during the transitional period Political-cultural elite in Hungary and the transition toward a new social system National identity and national stereotypes in cross national comparative perspectives Social history of socialism in Hungary Cross-national comparative research method Cross-national survey of everyday social justice norms Inter-ethnic relations in the Carpathian basin The coexistence strategies of the Roma and the non-roma population in Hungary Successful Romany Life Courses Social and economic trust in new democracies Social resources of success in post-socialist market democracies Roma and non-roma about Roma and non-roma: MAGYAR AGORA 2005 project, the first Deliberative Poll in Hungary Social determinants of Migration in the Carpathian basin New migration trends in Hungary Generational Justice in comparative perspective

4 Main projects in the last 5 years OSI (Open Society Institute), Monitoring the EU: Accession Process: Minority Protection Collegium Budapest, Honesty and Trust: Theory and Experience in the Light of Post-Socialist Transformation Focus Group National Fund for Scientific Research (OTKA), Successful Romany Life Courses National Fund for Scientific Research (OTKA), The stock of knowledge of national identity in an cross-national comparison Hungarian Prime Minister Office, 2005 Changing social justice norms in Hungary between 1990 and 2005 University of Bielefeld, , GFE Group-Focused Enmity in Europe Open Society Institute Hungarian Prime Minister Office Program ÖT Small Democracy Found, 2006 Deliberative Poll in Hungary Ministry of Labor TÁRKI, Expected migration Potential of the Romanian Citizens after the enrollment of Romania into the EU (with a special focus on the ethnic Hungarians in Romanian) SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME PRIORITY 7, Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge Based Society Multicultural Democracy and Immigrants Social Capital in Europe: Participation, Organizational Networks, and Public Policies at the Local Level, main researcher National Fund for Scientific Research (OTKA), 2007 Everyday Justice Judgements and Generational Justice in Central Europe ENRI-East Interplay of European, National and Regional Identities: nations between states along the new eastern borders of the European Union, main researcher Immigrants in Hungary (Igazságügyi És Rendészeti Minisztérium, A harmadik országok állampolgárainak beilleszkedését segítő európai alap (európai integrációs alap), 2009 Border as complex economic, social and cultural system in the Hungarian, Ukrainian, Slovak border region financed by the TAMOP Research University Grant, Professional Societies Member of Hungarian Sociological Association President of the HSA, 2004 Member of the Hungarian National UNESCO Committee, Member of the Doctoral Committee of HAS, International Society for Justice Research Association, ERCOMER Fellow Board, Menedék Egyesület - the Hungarian Association for Migrants, Chair Editorial Board member of Social Forces (2010- ) Previous: MTA Minority Research Institute, Academic Directorial Board Sociological Division of Hungarian National Science Foundation Editorial Board member of Sociological Inquiry ( )

5 Founder and editor of the periodical called Replika ( ) Awards 2009: The Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement Degree and Plaques of Human Rights Day 2008: Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic (civil division), Knight Cross 2011: MSZT Pollányi Award, the best academic publication of the year in sociology: Az idegen Magyarország Pro Cultura Scientiae award, 2 times