Biographies

Péter Tibor Nagy was born in 1963 and educated in Budapest PhD Education and PhD History. Habilitation at Debrecen University. He had a "Széchenyi"-professor scholarship of Social Science Faculty - University of Eötvös Lorand, Budapest. Research director of Hungarian Institute of Educational Research, Budapest. Professor of the John Wesley Theological College in Budapest. His main fields of interest include historical problems of modern history of Central European education, elite selection and training, educational inequalities in the history of Central European societies. Last book: Hajszálcsövek és nyomáscsoportok. Oktatáspolitika a 19-20. századi Magyarországon. (Social capillarity and pressure groups. Educational policy in Hungary in the 19th and 20th centuries.) English texts: www.wesley.hu/tanarok.php

Victor Karády was born in 1936 and educated in Budapest. Vienna and Paris with advanced degrees in sociology and demography from the Sorbonne. He is a former research director with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, Paris) and professor at the Department of History of the Central European University (Budapest). Most of his scholarly career was associated with the Centre de Sociologie Européenne under the late Pierre Bourdieu and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Socials in Paris. His recent projects are supported by the Hungarian Institute of Educational Research and the John Wesley Theological College in Budapest. His main fields of interest include historical problems of elite selection and training, the societal functions of schooling, ethnic and denominational inequalities in the process of modernisation of Central European societies, the social history of European Jewry. Last book: The Jews of Europe in the Modern Era. A Socio-Historical Outline. Budapest, New York. Central European University Press. 2004. English texts: www.wesley.hu/tanarok.php