Andras Kovacs
Professor
Director of Jewish Studies
Professor at the Nationalism Studies,
egyetemi tanár
Building:
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Room:
204
Phone number:
+36 1 327-3000 x2303 Qualifications:
Ph.D. in Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
Academic/Professional Experience and Achievements:
Professor Kovacs studied philosophy and history and completed his PhD in sociology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He has held teaching and research positions at Paderborn University (FRG), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), New York University (New York), TH Twente (The Netherlands), Salomon Steinheim Institut für Deutsch-Jüdische Geschichte, Duisburg , Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für Jüdische Studien, Potsdam , Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Wien, Institut für Soziologie, Universitat Wien, Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin.
His research interests include minority identities, prejudice, antisemitism, and sociology of post-Holocaust Jewry. In the last years Professor Kovács has carried out empirical research on antisemitism in post-Communist Hungary, on Jewish identity in Hungary and on national identity and European integration. From 2002 to 2012, he was senior researcher at the Institute for Ethnic and Minority Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He has published over 100 scholarly works, including Anti-Semitism and the Young Elite in Hungary (1996), Antisemitic Prejudices in Contemporary Hungary (1999), Jews and Jewry in Contemporary Hungary: Results of a Sociological Survey (ed., 2004), New Jewish Identities: Contemporary Europe and Beyond (co-editor, 2003), NATO, Neutrality and National Identity: the Case of Austria and Hungary (co-editor, 2003), Stranger at hand. Antisemitic prejudices in post-communist Hungary (2005).
(co-editor, 2003)
CV attachment:
Academic/research topics:
minority
Anti-Semitism
post-Holocaust Jewry
Academic/Research Areas:
Courses taught by Andras Kovacs
Theses supervised by Andras Kovacs
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Israelites, Zionists and Rootless Cosmopolitans. The Hungarian Communist State and the ‘Jewish Question’ in a Comparative Perspective (1956-1969) Thesis author: Kata Bohus Year of enrollment: 2006/2007 |
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Between Marginal Rebels and Mainstream Critics: Jewish Romanian Intellectuals in the Interwar Period Thesis author: Marioara-Camelia Craciun Year of enrollment: 2003/2004 |
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Assimilation of minorities in Hungary Thesis author: Eszter Szilassy |
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Jewish National Politics in Interwar Czechoslovakia (1918-1938) Thesis author: Marie Crhova |
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Between marginal rebels and mainstream critics: Jewish Romanian Intellectuals in the Interwar Period Thesis author: Camelia Craciun |
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“Foreign Land as a Metaphor for One’s Own”: Travel and Travel Writing in Russian History and Culture, 1200s-1800s. Thesis author: Ksenia Polouektova |
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Zionists, Israelites and Rootless Cosmopolitans: The Hungarian State and the Jewish Question 1956-1969. Thesis author: Kata Bohus Thesis author: Kata Bohus |