Prof. Dr. Judit Takács

ACADEMIC CAREER

2020 February – present

• Academy in Exile Fellow at KWI, Essen

2016 February – 2020 January

• National Expert on Secondment at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm

2019 – present

• Research Chair at the Centre for Social Sciences (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre of Excellence), Budapest

2012 – 2018

• Research Chair at the Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

1999 – 2011

• researcher at the Sociology Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

RESEARCH INTERESTS

social history of homosexuality; homophobia, transphobia; social situation of LGBTIQ+ people; family practices; childlessness; antidiscrimination and equal treatment policy development

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)

• Takács J; Szalma I (2020) Democracy deficit and homophobic divergence in 21st century Europe. Gender, Place & Culture, 27(4): 459-478. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1563523
• Takács J (2019) How involved are involved fathers in Hungary? Exploring caring masculinities in a post-socialist context. Families, Relationships, and Societies. Published online. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674319X15592179267974
• Kuhar R; Monro S; Takács J (2018) Trans* Citizenship in Post-socialist Societies. Critical Social Policy, 38(1): 99–120. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018317732463
• Takács J (2017) Listing Homosexuals since the 1920s and under State Socialism in Hungary. 157-170 in C. Baker (ed.) Gender in 20th-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR. Palgrave: London. https://he.palgrave.com/page/detail/gender-in-twentieth-century-eastern-europe-and-the-ussr-catherine-baker/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137528025
• Takács J (2015) Homophobia and Genderphobia in the European Union: Policy contexts and empirical evidence. Stockholm: SIEPS (Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies) http://www.sieps.se/en/publications/2015/homophobia-and-genderphobia-in-the-european-union-20151/