Curriculum Vitae
Attila Melegh

Home:1094 Budapest
Angyal utca 7/a
Hungary
Phone (office): 36 1 345 6227
Phone (mobile): 36 30 274 4885
Email: melegh@demografia.hu

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Born: August 3, 1963 in Budapest, Hungary
Citizenship: Hungarian
Family status: married 
PRESENT POSITION:

Senior Research Fellow. Demographic Research Institute, Central Statistical Office. Budapest, Hungary.
Assistant Professor Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary.
Assistant Professor, Tomori Pál College, Kalocsa, Hungary.

EDUCATION

1999-2002 Ph.D. in History, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary. Ph.D. Thesis: Population Change and Agrarian Towns between the 18th and 20th Centuries. (June 8, 2002: No. 8/2002.PhD).
2001 Ph.D. scholarship: The Demography of Central and Eastern Europe and Analysis of Population Changes and Differences. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany 
1986-87 Visiting Graduate, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, United Kingdom
1986 BA in Sociology and BA in Economics, Budapest University of Economics, Hungary. Thesis: Family and Household Formation in Buda in the Early 19th Century.
1977-81 High School Diploma (1981), Nagy Lajos Gimnázium, Pécs, Hungary

ACADEMIC HONORS, PROFESSORSHIPS AND AWARDS

2004 Spring Fulbright Instructor, Center for Central and East European Studies, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
2002-2003: Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest.
2002 March East/West Discourses. EUSSIRF Research scholarship to the British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics, United Kingdom
2001. Ph.D. in History at Debrecen University, Hungary, qualified as Summa Cum Laude 
1999-2001 East versus West. Identities, Intellectual Strategies and Popular Images. Research Support Scheme Scholarship, Soros Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic 
1996-1997 Fulbright Instructor, Department of History, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
1996 Award of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Young Scholars
1993 Graduate Scholarship at Cambridge University, United Kingdom
1986 First prize in the university competition of student papers at Budapest University of Economics, Hungary

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY TILL THE PRESENT POSITIONS

June, 1993 --September, 1996 Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
April, 1991-- September, 1994 Director of Széchenyi College, Budapest University of Economics E)
September, 1987 – Sept., 1991 Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, BUE

FUNDED RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2009 Project Leader. The Reform of the Statistical System on Migrants from Third Countries. European Integration Fund, Hungary, EIA/2007/3.2.3.1. (50,000 Euro)
2009 Állampolgári Tanácskozás a bevándorlók integrációjáról European Integration Fund, Hungary EIA/2007/3.1.1.1. Corvinus University (co-researcher)
2008- Co-researcher: Developmental Idealism Studies. Population Studies Center University of Michigan. 
2005- 2007 Workpackage leader in “Needs for female immigrants and their integration into ageing societies.” Comparison of 9 EU countries FP6-2004-SSP-4 (1,069,261 Euro)
2003-2004: Globalization, ethnicity, and labor migration: USAID, Siberian Center for Applied Research in Economics, Russia. Demographic Research Institute, Hungary and Center for Ethnic Relations and Nationalism at Helsinki University, Finland (total fund 85,000 USD)
2002- Globalizáció és migráció (Globalization and Migration) within the project of A magyarországi bevándorlás okai és következményei (Causes and Consequences of Immigration into Hungary) NKFP-5/0084/2002. National Educational and Research Fund, Hungary (30,000 USD) 
2002 March EUSSIRF scholarship to the British Library of Political and Economic Science: East/West Discourses
1999-2001 East versus West. Identities, intellectual strategies and popular images. 
Research Support Scheme, Soros Foundation, Prague (13,100 USD)
1999-2001 Mezőgazdasági népesség élettörténetei (Life histories of Agricultural Population) Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alap (National Science
Research Fund) (HUF 1,400,000)
1996-7 Élettörténetek és a demográfia (Life Histories and Demography) ATA (Active Society Foundation) (HUF 150,000)
1995-97 Örökösödés Magyarországon a 18. és a 19. században (Inheritance in Hungary in the 18th and 19th Century) Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alap (National Science Research Fund) In May 1995, Hungary (HUF 370,000.)
1995-96 (with Éva Kovács)
Premodern elemek a modern társadalomtudományokban (Premodern Elements in Modern Social Sciences) Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alap (National Science Research Fund) In May 1995, Hungary (HUF 300,000)
1992-93 Az alkotmányosság kérdése a magyar sajtóban (The Question of Constitutional Order in the Hungarian Press) Pro Renovanda Culturae (HUF 70,000.)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

April, 1991-- September, 1994 Director of Széchenyi College, Budapest University of Economics

Graduate or postgraduate courses:

July 2007 -- July 2010 Global versus local inequality in the era of globalization. Demography and Inequality In: “Rediscovering Social Inequality and Exclusion After the Collapse of State Socialism: Regional Contexts “ Core faculty, Russia, St. Petersburg, Moscow. Sevastopol, Ukraine
July 2005 -- July 2007. Culture and Power, Critical Sociology Network Caucasus Teaching and Research Initiative” Tbilisi (Georgia). 
August 2003 - 2006 Regional Seminar for Excellence in Migration studies: Theory, Methodology and Migration Policy. (HESP, UN). 
Taught Courses at Smolensk Humanitarian University Summer School (Russia): Discrimination and Migration (Summer 2005); Globalization and the political economy of migration (Summer, 2004). East/West Exclusions
Discourses and Narratives on Population and Migration (Summer, 2003)
September-December, 2002. East/West Exclusions. Discourses on Population and Migration in the United States and Europe in the 20th Century. Central European University, Department of History
30 July - 10 August, 2001 Cross-border Identities -- a Narrative Approach to East-West Experience. With: Júlia Vajda and Roswitha Breckner. (Central European University, Summer University)

Undergraduate courses:

Since 2008 Foundations of Sociology. Economic Sociology. Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University
Since 2004 Social Change in the Era of Globalization. International Studies Center, Corvinus University, Budapest.
2004, Spring. Post-Communist Syndromes? International Politics and the Changes in East/West Discourses. (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA)
Autumn 2000 Social Change (ISC Budapest University of Economics)
Spring 1999 Social Change (ISC Budapest University of Economics)
September, 1998---Spring 2000 The East - West Discourse in Politics and the Social Sciences (Széchenyi College) 
January, 1997--May, 1997 Social Change in Central Europe. The Problems of Uneven Development (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA)
September, 1996-- December, 1996 Ideas of Modernity. National Identity and Social Change in the 19th and 20th century Central Europe (Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA)
September, 1994 -- June, 1995 The History of Hungarian Sociology (Széchenyi College)
September, 1992 -- December, 1993 Media (research seminar) (Széchenyi College)
September, 1991 -- June, 1993 Sociology (Budapest University of Economics)
September, 1989 -- June, 1991 Economic Sociology (Budapest University of Economics)
September, 1989 -- June, 1991 Family and Household Formation in Hungary in the 18th. and 19th century (research seminar) Széchenyi College
September, 1988 -- June, 1991 Population History and Family Formation in Early Modern Europe (Budapest University of Economics)

PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

Hungarian Sociological Association
Editor of the English edition of Demográfia, the Hungarian demographic quarterly
Vice president of the Steering Committee of the European Network in Universal and Global History 
Evaluator of Marie Curie Fellowships since 2007
Reviewer at the National Research Fund
Reviewer at Fulbright Program
Lecturer at Kul-Turist (lecturing program for American visitors) since 1992
Member of the Supervisory Board of Cordelia Foundation (providing psychological help for tortured refugees)
Voluntary at the Hungarian Anti Poverty Network
Founder of Ars Longa Foundation (social programs for institutionalized children and youngsters)
Board Member, Society of Social Sciences 1989-1997

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

 Hungarian, mother tongue
 English fluent in all respects
 German basics
 Russian basic reading, writing, speaking