András Kovács is a Professor at the Nationalism Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the Central European University, Hungary, and since 2002 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethnic and Minority Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
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. Since 2002, he has been senior researcher at the Institute for Ethnic and Minority Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
He has published over 90 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), The Stranger at Hand. Antisemitic prejudices in post-communist Hungary (Brill, Leiden – Boston 2011).
His scholarly publications include:
- 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)
- The Stranger at Hand. Antisemitic prejudices in post-communist Hungary
- Eastern European Antisemitism (Journal for the Study of Antisemitism special issue, guest editor, 2012)
