Political scientist, research director of the Institute
Was born in 1981 in Timişoara (Temesvár). He received a BA degree in Sociology at the Western University Timişoara, he conducted his MA studies at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Political science and at the Central European University (CEU) in Nationalism studies. He attended the Philosophy Doctoral School at the Babeș-Bolyai University, where he analyzed the political representation claim-making capacities of Hungarians in Romania.
He is an associated professor at the Department of International Relationships and European Studies at the Sapientia University.
His main fields of interest are language policy, nationalism, democracy and ethnopolitics.
Publications
Detached implementation: Discourse and practice in minority language use in Romania. Language Policy, 2019
(Kiss Tamás és Székely István Gergővel közösen): Unequal Accommodation: An Institutionalist Analysis of Ethnic Claim-Making and Bargaining. In: Kiss Tamás – Székely István Gergő – Toró Tibor – Bárdi Nándor – Horváth István (ed.): Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights : Hungarians in Transylvania. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 71-165
(Horváth Istvánnal közösen): Language Use, Language Policy, and Language Rights. In: Kiss Tamás – Székely István Gergő – Toró Tibor – Bárdi Nándor – Horváth István (ed.): Unequal Accommodation of Minority Rights : Hungarians in Transylvania. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 167-223
Ethnicization or de-ethnicization? Hungarian political representation in the Romanian parliament. Nationalities Papers 2018 46 (2) 219-236
Barna Gergő, Kapitány Balázs, Kiss Tamás, Márton János, Toró Tibor, Iskolák veszélyben. Tanulmányok a Székelyföldön kívüli magyar oktatás helyzetéről, Kolozsvár, Nemzeti Kisebbségkutató Intézet, 2016, p. 378, ISBN 9786068377414
(Toró Tamás-Zoltánnal közösen): A temesvári magyar közösség politikai önszerveződése az 1989-es temesvári események után. Bárdi Nándor – Gidó Attila – Novák Csaba Zoltán (eds.): Együtt és külön. Az erdélyi magyarok önszerveződése (1989–1990). ISPMN Publishing, Cluj-Napoca, 2014, 15-52 (ISBN: 978-606-8377-31-5)