Curriculum Vitae
András Bozóki
Updated: January 2006.
Ph. D. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1992.
Habilitation Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2003.
PRESENT POSITION
2005 February to present - Minister of Culture
Ministry of Cultural Heritage
H-1077 Budapest, Wesselényi u. 20-22.
Phone(+36-1) 484-7139
Fax: ( +36-1) 484-7140
Email:andras.bozoki@nkom.gov.hu
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Since 2005 July professor, Departement of Political Science at Central European University (CEU)
1993 -2005 June Associate Professor, Department of Political Science,
CEU Nádor u. 9. Budapest, 1051 Hungary.
E mail:bozokia@ceu.hu
2004 Dept. of Political Science, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York, N.Y.
USA. (Visiting Professor) www.columbia.edu
1999-2000 Dept. of Government, SMITH COLLEGE, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
(Visiting Lecturer) www.smith.edu
2000 Dept. of Politics, MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, South Hadley, Massachusetts, USA (Visiting Lecturer); www.mtholyoke.edu
School of Social Studies, HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. (Visiting Lecturer) www.hampshire.edu
1983-present Dept. of Sociology, School of Law and Political Science, EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY, Budapest 1983-93: Assistant Professor, 1993- Associate Professor. (since 1997 part time only).
1991-93 Institute for Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
(Research Fellow, part time)
EDUCATION
1991 Ph.D. in Political Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Dissertation: ?The Theory of Anarchism and Its History in Hungary)
1990 Institute for Humane Studies, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA. USA
(Summer School in political theory)
1985 M. A. in Sociology, Insitute of Sociology, Eötvös University (ELTE),
Budapest
1984 Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (visiting student in sociology)
1983 Doctor of Law and Political Science, School of Law & Government, Eötvös University, Budapest (ELTE)
RESEARCH SPECIALIZATION
- Political elites: the elite of the regime change and the roundtable negotiations of 1989.
- Issues in democratization: Communism and new democracies in Europe.
- The quality of democracy: issues in participation and populism.
- Ideologies and the political role of the intellectuals.
- Citizenship, migration and democracy in the European Union.
TEACHING SPECIALIZATION
Comparative democratization; Democratic theory and the new democracies; Elite theory; Political ideologies; Intellectuals and politics; Central European politics; Comparative Communism; Sociological theories of politics.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Hungarian: native
English: active
German, Russian: reading, some speaking
Italian: basics
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
2003 Habilitation in Political Science (ELTE University, Budapest)
1993 The Publication of the Year (Hungarian Sociological Association)
1988 Ferenc Erdei Prize (Hungarian Sociological Association)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & ACTIVITIES
2004 - Chairman of the Hungarian Political Science Association (HPSA) www.mptt.hu
2003 - Member of the Board and Tutor at Erasmus Invisible College, Budapest.
2002 - Elected Member of the Executive Council of the European Political Science
Network (EpsNet) www.epsnet.org
2002 - Member of the editorial board of European Political Science. (An
international journal of the European Consortium for Political Research [ECPR])
2002-03 Member of the Presidium of the Green Academy, Hungary
1996-04 Director of the Board of the Civic Education Project (CEP) Hungary
1994-97 Member of the Board of editorial associates of Constellations (An
International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1992-99 Founder and co-editor of the Politikatudományi Szemle [Political Science Review], Budapest, Hungary.
2000 - member of the editorial board.
1991-97 Member of the Executive Committee of the Hungarian Political Science
Association
1991-94 Member of the Board of editorial associates of Szociológiai Szemle
[Sociological Review], Budapest
PUBLIC ACTIVITIES
JOURNALISM
2001- Senior columnist, Figyelő (economic weekly magazine) www.figyelo.hu
2003-4 Senior columnist, Magyar Hírlap. www.magyarhirlap.hu
2000-2 Columnist, Kontextus.hu (Internet magazine in the humanities and social sciences) www.kontextus.hu
1992-6 Senior columnist, Magyar Narancs (political and cultural weekly)
www.mancs.hu
1989-92 Founder and co-editor, Magyar Narancs (political and cultural bi-weekly)
Since 1989, altogether more than 150 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)
POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
2003-4 Political advisor to the Prime Minister of Hungary.
1990-2 Spokesman (1990), political advisor (1991-92) of the Federation of Young Democrats.
1989 Participant at the Hungarian National Roundtable Talks, as one of the negotiators of the Opposition Roundtable, representing the Federation of Young Democrats.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: January 23, 1959.
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Citizenship: Hungarian
