Pál Hatos Ph.D, holds an MA in literature and in law and earned his PhD in history from the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest (ELTE). He was a Research Fellow at the University of Geneva, the Institut Protestant de Montpellier, and at Sorbonne University in Paris. He has been teaching at ELTE then at Kaposvár University. Twice a Visiting Professor, he has been the holder of the chair of Hungarian studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He has widely published on the topic of European and Hungarian intellectual history of the 19th and 20th century. He is currently the Director of the Institute of Arts and Theatre of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE),. In 2019 he founded the Institute for Central European Studies of the University of Public Service Budapest of which he is currently the Head. His publications include: With Attila Novák (eds.): Between Minority and Majority. Hungarian and Jewish/Israeli Ethnical and Cultural Experiences in Recent Centuries, Budapest 2013, Eastern Policy – Western Roots. The Cultural Context of the Vatican’s Ostpolitik, Rome 2015, pp. 19-43; László Ravasz et les Conceptions du Protestantisme Hongrois au Tournant du XXe Siècle, in: Hungarian Studies, No. 1-2, Vol. 29, 2015, pp. 205-219; Hungarian Nation Branding – Past and Present In: Caroline, Y. Robertson-Von Trotha (szerk.) Nationeurope : The Polarised Solidarity Community, Baden-Baden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, (2018) His book the ’Az elátkozott köztársaság’ („The Ruined Republic. The history of the collapse of 1918 and of the Aster Revolution.) deals with the chaotic aftermath of WWI in Hungary while his latest monograph „Rosszfiúk világforradalma” gave a new interpretation of the history of the 1919 Hungarian Soviet Republic.
