Zsombor Bódy – research group leader

Zsombor Bódy, university professor and leader of the research project, earned his doctorate in 2001 from the ELTE BTK Economic and Social History Program after completing his degrees in history and sociology, as did nearly all members of the research group. His research covers numerous issues in 20th-century Hungarian social history, and over the last half-decade, his focus has been on the social and political history of the Hungarian expert elite. His most recent book on this topic is Technocrats in the Party State. The Dynamics of Expertise and Power in State Socialism (2025, Jaffa Publishing).
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Katalin Gyulai – research assistant

Katalin Gyulai graduated from ELTE in 2022 as an archivist. Since 2021, she has been working at the Budapest City Archives as an assistant archivist in Department III, where the documents of legal authorities are kept. In 2022, she was accepted into the Doctoral School of History at ELTE BTK, where she is currently a third-year scholarship doctoral student in the Doctoral Program in Auxiliary Sciences of History. Her research focuses on girls' education
during the Horthy era and the life paths of female high school graduates, which connects her to the work of the ELITDATA research center. Her research involves both databases and life paths with prosopographic requirements.
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Márkus Keller – researcher

Márkus Keller, historian, sociologist, habilitated associate professor, head of the Department of Comparative Historical Sociology at ELTE TáTK, doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member of the board of the Hajnal István Kör – Social History Association. 
His area of interest is 19th-20th century social history from a comparative perspective. He has published books and studies on the topics of professionalization, education, housing, and the theory of comparative historiography.
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László Kiss – researcher

László Kiss PhD, sociologist, research fellow at the Center for Social Sciences. He obtained his degree in sociology from Eötvös Loránd University, specializing in social and mental history, and then went on to earn his doctorate at the ELTE Doctoral School of Sociology. His areas of research include historical sociology, the history of the healthcare system, the history of the education system, and sports history.
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Zsuzsanna Kiss – researcher

Zsuzsi Kiss graduated from ELTE TáTK as a sociologist and obtained her doctoral degree from ELTE BTK's Doctoral Program in Economic and Social History with her thesis on the public sphere in Zala County during the neo-absolutist period. In 2022, she habilitated with a thesis on the social history of farm managers. 
While still a student at TáTK, she became involved as a demonstrator in elite research led by Gábor I. Kovács. She gained her first research experience during archival research necessary for compiling a biographical database of university professors. She remained in constant contact with the elite database and Gábor I. Kovács's research, and in recent years, together with her students (Diana Bartha, Csenge Kondorosy, and Ágnes Kovács), she began to explore the possibilities of digital analysis using a medical sub-sample of the elite database.
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Gábor I. Kovács – researcher

Gábor I. Kovács is a retired associate professor, university professor, and founder of the Department of Comparative Historical Sociology. He is the organizer and leader of the knowledge elite segment of historical elite research between the two world wars, initiated by Tibor Huszár in 1979. Later, together with Árpád Takács, he published six volumes, partly archival and partly analytical, on un versity professors and academics of the bourgeois era (1849–1944), who constituted the dominant group of the knowledge elite, in the Historical Elite Research book series (2012–2024).
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Gergely Magos – researcher

Gergely Magos PhD, historian, sociologist, assistant professor at the Department of Comparative Historical Sociology at ELTE TáTK. He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University with a degree in history and sociology. In 2021, he obtained his doctoral degree from the Doctoral Program in Social and Economic History at ELTE BTK. Between 2013 and 2022, he worked at the Hungarian National Archives. He was a member of the Professionalization History Research Group and the Hajnal István Circle. In 2024, he was awarded a University Excellence Scholarship (EKÖP). 
His areas of interest include the history of healthcare, particularly the history of pharmacy and mental illness, as well as the history of modern professions in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Viktor Papp – research assistant

Viktor Papp is a social historian, media researcher, employee of the National Széchényi Library, and research assistant at the Department of Comparative Historical Sociology at ELTE TáTK. He obtained his PhD in 2023 from the Doctoral Program in Social and Economic History at ELTE BTK TDI. In 2025, he won the Benda Gyula Award, which recognizes the work of young social historians.
His research interests include the social history of the legal profession, the professionalization of legal professions, 19th-century photographic history, and reception studies within media studies.
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Orsolya Ring – researcher

Orsolya Ring PhD, historian, senior research fellow at the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Social Science Research Centre, assistant professor at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University, editor of the Korall Social History Journal and the Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. She received her PhD in 2011 from the Interdisciplinary Historical Doctoral Program at ELTE BTK Atelier. Between 2000 and 2017, she worked at the National Archives of Hungary. 
Her areas of interest include social history after 1945, theater history, and the application of text mining and network research methods in historical research.
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