Research Interests

Judit Acsády, PhD, Sociologist, Senior Research Fellow at ELTE, CSS, Institute for Sociology. Obtained her PhD in Sociology at University ELTE, Budapest. Dissertation: Emancipation and Identity. (2005). Post-graduate courses at University of Amsterdam (1990-91) and at EHSS in Paris (1995-96). Teaches at Wekerle Sándor International University and gave courses at Corvinus and ELTE Universities and University of Szeged. Member of the Editorial Board of the Interdisciplinary eJournal of Gender Studies. Became appointed to serve on the Presidential Committee on Women in Research of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2024). Her main research fields include:  feminist movements and the emancipation in a social historical perspective, civil society, gender relations after the transitions, women in public life, social construction of care, gendered aspects of, sustainability climate change. Member of the  Central-European Masculinities in a Comparative Perspective (CEFRES) Research Project (2024-). Participated in several international  projects earlier, such as: ’Women Activists Between War and Peace Europe: 1918-1923’. / and Aftermath WW1. PI: Ingrid Sharp (University of Leeds); GENDERWISE, COST - Gender and Culture of Science in Society (GENESIS) Project; 2011. genSET Project. - Building Institutional Capacity for Action on Gender Dimension in Science.  EC  Framework 7 Programme, Science in Society; Wissenschaftsladen Wien; She was leader of a research team of CARE Research Project - Gendering Post-Socialist Transition (2009-2010); participated as a researcher in the CSS project: ‘Solidarity as an answer to the crisis caused by the pandemic: actions and discourses’. (2020-2021) PI.: Dr. Margit Feischmidt.