Members of our research group

Members of our research team

2020.11.14.
Members of our research team

Márkus KELLER, Head of research group

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Márkus Keller PhD, historian, sociologist, habilitated associate professor, head of the Department of Comparative Historical Sociology and the Research Group on the History of Professionalisation (ELTE TÁTK-BTK). Member of the Supervisory Board of the Hajnal István Society - Social History Association.

He studied History, Sociology and Psychology at the Eötvös Loránd University, the Katholische Universität Eichstätt, the Humboldt Universität Berlin and the University of Vienna. Between 2004 and 2007 he was a doctoral student at the Berliner Kolleg für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas. From 2014 to 2016 Humboldt Fellow at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin.

Field of interest: 19th-20th century social history in comparative perspective. He has published volumes and papers on professionalization, housing and comparative historiography theory.

Publications in the MTMT database: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10014043

 


Katalin DETRE

Katalin Detre, historian, economist. She was a member of the Research Group on History of Photography and Performativity at the Institute of Art History, MTA BTK.

She holds a degree in economics from Corvinus University of Budapest (formerly Marx Károly University of Economics). She holds a PhD in Social and Economic History from the Doctoral Program of the Doctoral School of History at the ELTE BTK, and is writing her doctoral dissertation on the social history of Hungarian movement art.

Her field of interest is the professionalisation of dance and the closely interrelated profession of gymnastics.

Publications in the MTMT database: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=10060749


Károly HALMOS

Károly Halmos PhD, dr. oec., economist, economic historian, habilitated assistant professor at the Department of Economic and Social History, ELTE BTK TI. Founding member of the Hajnal István Society, member of the supervisory board, representative of the Hajnal István Foundation.

He studied at the Marx Károly University of Economics at the Department of Planning and Analysis of Economics. He worked as an archivist for one year and then as a staff member of the Central and Eastern European Research Centre of the Hungarian National Library of Economics and Business Administration. He spent 3-3 months in Bielefeld and Vienna on a MTA-Soros scholarship. He has been a visiting scholar at the Humboldt University in Vienna, Humboldt University in Berlin, Duke University in Leiden, Duke University in Giessen and Duke University in Durham (N.C., USA).

His interests include the history of entrepreneurship, micro-history of economic life, social history of ideas and 19th century social history. He is also a member of the research group (http://polecolit.btk.mta.hu/), which studies the political economy of 19th century Hungarian literature. In addition to his studies and articles, he has published a book (Family Capitalism) and is preparing a book of essays, Cost and Poetry.

Publications in the MTMT database: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10012665


Ilona KAPPANYOS

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Ilona Kappanyos is a historian and a student of the Doctoral Programme in Social and Economic History at ELTE.

She studied history at the University of Oxford, the University of Kent and Eötvös Loránd University. She was Secretary of the Oxford Hungarian Society from 2011 to 2014 and Community Secretary of the Oxford University History Society in 2013.

Her interests include 20th century social history and medical history. She is writing his PhD thesis on the development and functioning of the Hungarian network of nurses.

Publications in the MTMT database:https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10063407


Zsuzsanna KISS

Zsuzsanna Kiss PhD, sociologist, social historian, assistant professor, employee of the Department of Comparative Historical Sociology at ELTE TáTK. Secretary of Hajnal István Kör - Social History Association. Head of the Prosopography and Family History Research Group at ELTE TáTK.

She obtained her sociological degree from the Department of Social and Mental History at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Eötvös Loránd University, and then completed her doctorate at the Doctoral Program in Economic and Social History at ELTE BTK. In 2007, she was a visiting fellow at the University of Leicester, Centre for Urban History.

Her field of interest: 19th-century social history, especially the history of the public sphere and the transformation of rural society during the period. Her volume on the public sphere during the neo-absolutism era will be published at the end of 2020.

Publications in the MTMT database: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10034161


Gergely MAGOS

Gergely Magos is a historian, sociologist, archivist, and a doctoral candidate at the ELTE Doctoral Program in Social and Economic History.

He earned his degree in historian and sociologist from Eötvös Loránd University. He was a student at the ELTE Doctoral Program in Social and Economic History between 2011 and 2016. He has been a staff member of the Hungarian National Archives since 2013.

His area of ​​interest: the history of the pharmaceutical profession in the 19th and 20th centuries. In his upcoming dissertation, he presents the historically changing relationship between the pharmaceutical profession and state power, with a special emphasis on the process of liquidation of civil pharmacy between 1938 and 1950.

Publications in the MTMT database: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10050658


Barbara PAPP

Barbara Papp PhD, historian, clinical psychologist. Research fellow at the Department of Economic and Social History, ELTE BTK.

Her area of ​​interest is the professionalization of female doctors in the 20th century and the history of women in the Horthy era (graduate women).

 

Publications in the MTMT database: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10021489


Viktor PAPP

Viktor Papp is a social historian, a PhD student with a scholarship in the Doctoral Program in Social and Economic History at ELTE, and a research assistant in the Professionalization History Research Group.

He received his master's degree in history from the Department of Economic and Social History at ELTE in 2017, and is currently a doctoral student at the same Department.

His area of ​​interest is 19th-century social history, especially the legal profession, and the history of anti-Semitism.

Publications in the MTMT database: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10059501


Csaba SASFI

Csaba Sasfi PhD, Chief Archivist of the Hungarian National Archives. Editor of the Korall social history journal between 2000 and 2005, editor-in-chief of the Korall Social History Monographs series since 2012, member of the journal’s advisory board since 2020.

He received his degree in history from the Faculty of Humanities of ELTE in 1983. He defended his doctoral degree at the Doctoral School of History of the same faculty, in the Doctoral Program in Economic and Social History, in 2004.

Field of interest: his research focuses on the 18th–19th centuries. They aim to explore the social history of secondary and higher education in Hungary in the 20th century, with particular attention to the topic of schooling, i.e. the number, social composition and socio-cultural background of the student body and their changes, through the compilation and analysis of school and student databases.

Publications in the MTMT database: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10033099


Viktor TÁTRAI

Viktor Tátrai is a historian, PhD student, who completed his undergraduate and master's degree in history at Eötvös Loránd University. Since 2018, he has been a doctoral student in the Doctoral Program in Social and Economic History at the Doctoral School of History at ELTE.

His area of ​​interest is the examination of complex urban and social history problems, with a particular focus on the professionalization of the Hungarian police in the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.

Publications in the MTMT database: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10068149

 


János UGRAI

János Ugrai PhD, educational historian, habilitated associate professor at Eszterházy Károly University.

He received his doctorate from the University of Debrecen in 2005, and his habilitated there in 2010.

His areas of interest include: the church and social historical contexts of 18th-19th century education, with particular attention to the characteristics of the Reformed cultural region of northeastern Hungary; the educational policy of the Habsburg enlightened absolutism; and the education and cultural history characteristics of the membership of the Academy during the Reformation.

Publications in the MTMT database: https://m2.mtmt.hu/gui2/?type=authors&mode=browse&sel=authors10012621