Iván Szelényi

Iván Szelényi is a sociologist, university teacher, and academic born in Budapest in 1938. He holds citizenship in the United States and Hungary. His native language is Hungarian, and he also speaks English. Szelényi has been educated at Corvinus University of Budapest, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

He has served as a professor emeritus and held academic appointments at Yale University, New York University, the University of California, Los Angeles, New York University Abu Dhabi, and the CUNY Graduate School and University Center. Szelényi is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Széchenyi Prize and is recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Szelényi is an author of fourteen works. Notable titles include *From State Socialism to Post-Communist Capitalism*, *Building Nations with Nonnationals*, *Varieties of Post-Communist Capitalism*, *Theories of the New Class*, and *Making capitalism without capitalists*.