Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae: József Böröcz

PRESENT POSITIONS:

Associate Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University
Member of Scholarly Board, Institute for Political Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, Országház u. 30. H-1014 Hungary.
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University.

EDUCATION, DEGREES, etc.:

2004: Dr.Sc., (Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences).
1992: Ph.D., Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University.
1990: Translator's Diploma in the Social Sciences, (Hungarian-English), Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
1987: M.A. in Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University.
1982: M.A. Diploma and Teacher's Certificate in Linguistics, Literature and Public Education, Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary.
1974: High School Diploma, Petôfi Sándor Gimnázium, Budapest, Hungary

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS (partial listing) <== Please note: a great many of these publications are available online from my website. To see them, please go to the cover page of my online archive.

Books

2001. with Melinda Kovács (eds.) Empire's New Clothes: Unveiling EU Enlargement. E-book, free to download, an imprint of Central Europe Review ISBN 1-84287-009-2. This e-book has also been published in Hungarian as a thematic block of papers in the journal Replika, (november 2001):23-151.
1996. Leisure Migration: A Sociological Study on Tourism. Oxford (UK), Pergamon Press (an Elsevier Science Ltd Imprint). ISBN 0-08-042560-7 (hard cover) -- for a review of this book by Erik Cohen (published in Current Anthropology), click here if you are viewing this page from the Rutgers network or from any other institution that participates in JSTOR // to buy the book online, aim here
1995. with David A. Smith (eds.) A New World Order? Global Transformation in the Late 20th Century. Greenwood Press (a Praeger imprint). ISBN 0-313-29573-5 (hard cover), ISBN 0-275-95122-7 (soft cover) -- for an online book review by Alvin Y. So in the Journal of World System Research, click here. // to buy it online, follow this link (paperback) or this one (hardcover)

Other Edited Work

1994. with Katherine Verdery (eds.) Gender and Nation. Thematic Block. East European Politics and Societies. 8:2(Spring):223-316.

Articles

2006. "Goodness Is Elsewhere: The Rule of European Difference" Comparative Studies in Society and History, 48,1,(January):110-38.
with Mahua Sarkar: 2005. "What Is the EU?" International Sociology, 20,2(June):153-73.
2005. "Redistributing Global Inequality: A Thought Experiment." Economic and Political Weekly, February 26. In Hungarian: 2005. "Gondolatkísérlet a globális elosztásról". Eszmélet. 66: 61-70.
2005. "Globális mobilitás és geopolitika: 1989-2001." (Global Mobility and Geopolitics: 1989-2001.) Bayer József és Guba László (szerk.) A Politikatudományi Intézet Évkönyve 2005. (Yearbook of the Institute for Political Studies), Budapest: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. Forthcoming.
2003. "East European Entrants to EU: Diffidently Yours." The Polish Foreign Affairs Digest, 3, 4(9): 47-58. Polish version: 2003. "Wschodnioeuropejscy Kandydacy do Unii Europejskiej: bez wiary w siebie." "Polski Przeglad Dyplomatyczny. 3,6(16): 51-68. German version: 2004. "Die Osteuropäischen Beitrittsländer der EU". Transl. by Martin Prochazka. Ost-West Gegeninformationen. 16,1:3-6.
2002. "A határ: társadalmi tény." Replika, 47-48 (június): 133-42.
2001. "Change Rules." American Journal of Sociology. 106,4(January 2001):1152-68.
2001. "Döntés és indoklása -- avagy miként szivárog a szubsztancia a formális jogba az Európai Unió keleti bôvítése kapcsán". Replika. 43-44(június): 193-220.
2000. "The Fox and the Raven: The European Union and Hungary Renegotiate the Margin of 'Europe'." Comparative Studies in Society and History. 42,4(Oct): 847-75.
2000. "Informality Rules." East European Politics and Societies. 14,2(Spring): 348-80. Version in Magyar: "Kistársadalom -- kiskapuk" 2000, július-augusztus: 3-15.
1999. "From Comprador State to Auctioneer State: Property Change, Realignment and Peripherialization in Post-State-Socialist Central Europe." Pp. 193-209 in David A. Smith, Dorothy Solinger, and Steven Topik (eds.) States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy. London: Routledge. To buy this book, click here
1999. "Reaction as Progress: Economists as Intellectuals." In András Bozóki (ed.) Intellectuals and Politics in Central Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press. To buy this book, click here.
with Ákos Róna-Tas: 1999. "Business Elites in Central and Eastern Europe: Continuity and Change, Pre-Socialist and Socialist Legacies." in John Higley and György Lengyel (eds.) Elites after State Socialism: Theory and Analysis. Rowman and Littlefield.
1999. "A túl jó léttôl a nyers realitásig: Válasz a Demográfiai Szemle körkérdésére." (From Excessive Welfare to Harsh Reality: Response to the Question of the [Hungarian] Demography Review.) In Attila Melegh et al. (eds.) Demográfiai Szemle 1999 különszám. (Demography Szemle, Special Issue, 1999).
1998. "Informalität: Morbus Hungaricus?" (Informality: A Hungarian Disease?) Ost-West Gegeninformationen (Graz, Austria). 4:6-9.
1998. "Térkép e táj. Az EU-magyar ‘párbeszéd'." (This Landscape Is A Map. The EU-Hungarian ‘Dialogue'.) Kritika. 4:2-9.
with Caleb Southworth. 1998. "'Who You Know . . .': Earnings Effects of Formal and Informal Social Network Resources under Late State Socialism, Hungary, 1986-87." Journal of Socio-Economics. 27,3:403-27.
with Judit Bodnár: 1998. "Housing Advantages for the Better-Connected? Institutional Segmentation, Settlement Type and Network Effects in Late State-Socialist Housing Inequalities." Social Forces. Available on the web as part of an electronic Festschrift celebrating Iván Szelényi's sixtieth birthday, with kind permission from Social Forces.
1997. "Stand Reconstructed: Contingent Closure and Institutional Change." Sociological Theory, 15,3:215-48.
1997. "Social Change with Sticky Features: A Central European Critique of Modernizationism." Innovation, 10,2. (Presented earlier in the Center for Comparative Social Analysis at the Dept of Sociology at UCLA.)
1997. "Amerikai anzix." (Postcard from America.) Szociológiai figyelô, 1.
1997. "Anthony Giddens: Szociológia." (Book Review essay on the Hungarian edition of Anthony Giddens' Sociology.) BUKSZ--Budapesti könyvszemle, 3(Fall). (English version: "Sociology Is Elsewhere" Budapest Review of Books, Fall issue.)
1996. with Caleb Southworth, "Decomposing the Intellectuals' Class Power: Conversion of Cultural Capital to Income, Hungary, 1986." Social Forces, 74, 3(Mar):797-821.
1997. with Ákos Róna-Tas, "Folyamatosság és változás az államszocializmus utáni bolgár, cseh, lengyel és magyar üzleti elitben." Szociológiai szemle (Journal of the Hungarian Sociological Association), 3.
1995. with Ákos Róna-Tas, "Small Leap Forward: Emergence of New Economic Elites." Theory and Society, 5:751-81.
--> Polish version: 1995. "Formowanie siç nowej elity ekonomicznej." In I. Szelényi, D. Treiman and E. Wnuk-Lipinski (eds.) Elity w Polsce, w Rosji i na Wegrzech, wymiana czy reprodukcja? Warsaw, Inst. for Political Studies.
1995. with David A. Smith, "Introduction: Late Twentieth-Century Challenges for World-System Analysis." Pp. 1-15. in D. A. Smith and J. Böröcz (eds.) A New World Order? Global Transformation in the Late 20th Century. Greenwood.
1995. with Caleb Southworth, "Kapcsolatok és jövedelem: Magyarország, 1986-87." Szociológiai szemle, 2:25-48.
1993. "Kapcsolataink rétegei." BUKSZ-Budapesti könyvszemle, 444-9.
1993. "Simulating the Great Transformation: Property Change under Prolonged Informality in Hungary." Archives européennes de sociologie / European Journal of Sociology / Europäisches Archiv für Soziologie, XXXIV, 1(May):81-107.
--> Hungarian version: 1995. "Színlelt nagy átalakulás? Informális kiút az államszocializmusból." Politikatudományi szemle, 3:19-39.
1993. "Informality and the Second Economy in East-Central Europe." Pp. 215-44. in Gregory K. Schoepfle and Jorge Pérez-López (eds.) Work without Protections. U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C.
1992. "Travel-Capitalism: The Structure of Europe and the Advent of the Tourist." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 34,4:189-109.
1992. "Dual Dependency and the Informalization of External Linkages: The Case of Hungary." Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change, 14:189-209.
1992. "Dual Dependency and Property Vacuum: Social Change on the State Socialist Semiperiphery." Theory and Society, 21:77-104.
--> revised Hungarian version: 1992. "Kettôs függôség és tulajdonvákuum: Társadalmi átalakulás az államszocialista félperiférián." Szociológiai szemle, 3:3-20.
1991. "Vanguard of the Construction of Capitalism: The Hungarian Intellectuals' Trip to Power." Critical Sociology, 18,1:111-6.
1990. "Explaining Tourist Flows: Hungary as a Destination, 1960-1984." Annals of Tourism Research, 17,1:19-37.
1990. "Deutsch, das bedeutet (mir)..." Zeit/Schrift, 1:13-9.
1989. with Alejandro Portes, "Contemporary Immigration: Theoretical Perspectives on Its Determinants and Modes of Incorporation." International Migration Review, 23,1(Silver Issue):606-30.
--> Spanish version: 1992. "Immigración contemporánea: perspectivas teóricas sobre sus determinantes y modos de acceso." Alfoz. Territorio, Economía y Sociedad.20-34.
--> Hungarian version: 1990. "Keserû kenyér: a munkaerô nemzetkozi migrációjának szociológiai problémái." Szociológia, 1:11-32.
1989. "Mapping the Class Structures of State Socialism in East-Central Europe." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 8:279-309.
1989. "A posztmodern társadalomtudomány: Marx--tótágast." Valóság, XXXIII,6:38-48.
1988. "Két szék között: Motívumok egy társadalomképhez." Valóság, XXXII,11:72-82.
1988. with Alejandro Portes, "The Informal Sector under Capitalism and State Socialism: A Preliminary Comparison." Social Justice, 15,3-4:17-28.

GRADUATE STUDENTS I HAVE WORKED WITH:

A. Aneesh, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Erica Bornstein, has received her PhD at University of California at Irvine, published her dissertation as a book, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Salvatore Engel-DiMauro Defended his PhD-dissertation in Geography on May 15, 2000. Salvatore was a recipient of a Fulbright research grant award for Hungary, and is, currently, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Stephens Point.
Eric Kaldor, Defended his dissertation in Sociology at Rutgers on August 18, 2005. Currently Assistant Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Brockport
Alena K. Alamgir, PhD-Candidate in Sociology at Rutgers
Manjusha S. Nair, PhD-Candidate in Sociology at Rutgers
Angela Martin Crowly, defended her Dissertation in Social Relations at the University of California at Irvine
Caleb Southworth, currently Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Oregon. He continues to do research on the economic transformation of Russia and Ukraine
DISSERTATIONS I HAVE BEEN A READER OF:

Salvatore Engel-DiMauro: a dissertation on gender, soil science and soil dynamics in the Ormányság region of southern Hungary
Kristen Purcell: a dissertation on the socio-cognitive construction of parity
Bernard Tamas, (currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard)
Wojciech Sokolowski, (currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at The Johns Hopkins University): The Role of Professionals and Nonprofit Organizations in teh Politicial-Economic Transition in Poland, 1989-1993

With comments / suggestions, or if you just want to drop a line, please write to me at jborocz *(at)* rutgers.edu .
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