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.

Selected Publications

Acsády, Judit (2026): Foundations of institutionalised care work: Initiatives of Hungarian feminists before and after WW1. In Ingrid Sharp and Heidrun Zettelbauer (Eds.) Gendering Vulnerability and Care During the 'Greater War' in Europe, 1912–1923: Conversations Across Borders. Palgrave Macmillan.

Acsády, Judit ; Brys, Zoltán (2024) A környezettudatosság, a gondoskodás etika és a nemekkel kapcsolatos attitűdök összefüggései. SZOCIOLÓGIAI SZEMLE 34 : 4 pp. 44-60. https://epa.oszk.hu/05000/05067/00129/pdf/EPA05067_szocszemle_2024_04_044-060.pdf

Acsády, Judit (2024):  Construction of the Modern Woman Thinker’s Identity: Valéria Dienes (1879-1987), the Philosopher and Founder of the Art of Movement School and her Contribution to Women’s Emancipation. RADOVI 55  Special Issue: Modern Women Thinkers: Intellectual Development in the 20th Century : 1. p199-219. https://doi.org/10.17234/RadoviZHP.55.12

Acsády Judit (2023): “The ambiguities and contradictions of the state-socialist way of women’s emancipation in Hungary (1948-1989): Overview and search for the traces of feminist resistance” GLASNIK ETNOGRAFSKOG INSTITUTA SANU 71 : 3. 41-64. https://doi.org/10.2298/GEI2303041A

Acsády, Judit (2021): Hungarian Feminist Periodicals as Alternative Public Spaces,: 1907–18: Values, Networks, and Dissemination Strategies. JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN PERIODICAL STUDIES 6:1. 69-85. https://openjournals.ugent.be/jeps/article/id/71454/

Research Projects

UNTWIST: Policy recommendations to regain 'feminism losers' as mainstream voters. (Hungarian team member, Coordinator: Katalin Tardos, Sociology Institute, CSS)

Sustainable consumption patterns, behavioral strategies and knowledge use in the Hungarian society. A social scientific analysis of sustainable food and energy consumption. (participating researcher, PI: Bernadett Csurgó)

Hungary and the UN, 1945–1990. ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities and ELTE Centre for Social Sciences. PI: Kecskés D. Gusztáv  (ELTE RCH)

Phases and features of Hungarian feminist movements from a social history point of view (ongoing archive and oral history research, currently without additional funding)