István Deák Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of History, Spring 2026

Csaba Fazekas is a historian and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Miskolc, Hungary. He earned his Ph.D. in history at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest (1999). His main interest is the history of political thinking, ideologies, and political parties in 19th and 20th centuries, especially in the East Central European region. He has published books and articles in Hungarian and English on the political history of religious ideas, Church-State relations, the ecclesiastical political parties, and questions of the transition in East Central Europe. His most relevant papers: Collaborating with Horthy: Political Catholicism and Christian Political Organisations in Hungary, 1918-1944 (Routledge, 2004), “The Genesis of “Hungarism”: Bishop Ottokár Prohászka and the Extremist Right in 1920s Hungary”, published in Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe in 2015, and the “Impact of the Waco Branch Davidian Case and the Anticult Movement in Post-Communist Hungary”, published in Nova Religio in 2022.