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Gábor Scheiring’s research traces the path from the polycrisis of liberal globalism through social disintegration and embodied suffering to democratic decline, while mapping the responses that foster economic and political revival. He is the author of How Democracies Revive (Stanford University Press, forthcoming, with Benedek Jávor), of the award-winning Retreat of Liberal Democracy (Palgrave, 2020), and of dozens of studies published in leading journals across multiple disciplines. He is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University Qatar, with previous appointments at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and Bocconi University. A former member of the Hungarian Parliament (2010 – 2014), he brings firsthand knowledge of the political dynamics his research examines.



On his Research:
"A quantum raising of the bar in the contemporary analysis of illiberal
democracy in Europe."
Nigel Swain, History, University of Liverpool
On his book:
"The book is a model of how to research and theorize authoritarianism."
Peter Evans, Sociology, Berkeley
On Teaching Quality:
"I greatly valued taking your courses. They were some of the most
intellectually formative courses I've taken."
Anonymous Student Evaluation
On Mentorship and Support:
"genuinely kind and approachable professor, both inside and outside
of class... His passion for the subject is evident in the way he teaches,
making the material engaging and interesting. He's not only
knowledgeable but also incredibly generous with his time and support..."
Anonymous Student Evaluation
2023 - present
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Georgetown University Qatar
Doha, Qatar
2024
VISITING FELLOW
Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Cambridge, M.A.
2019 - 2022
MARIE CURIE FELLOW (2021 - 2022)
RESEARCH FELLOW (2019 - 2020)
Dondena Centre & Dept. of Social and Political Sciences
Bocconi University, Milan
2018 - 2019
POLITICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH FELLOW
Dept. of Sociology
University of Cambridge

2014 - 2016
CHAIRMAN OF PROGRESSIVE HUNGARY FOUNDATION (MMAA)

2002 - 2010
SOCIAL ORGANIZER
global and environmental justice movements
2007
M.A. IN ECONONOMICS & SOCIOLOGY
Corvinus University, Budapest
B.A. IN ECONOMICS
Budapest Business School, Budapest
2003
2025
CHARLES F. KETTERING GLOBAL FELLOW
Kettering Foundation
2022

2022
GEORGE BLAZYCA PRIZE - for “major contributions to East European Studies”
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)

2019
Ph.D. IN SOCIOLOGY
University of Cambridge
In my PhD thesis and several related publications, I examined the association between deindustrialisation, privatisation, the rise in mortality, desperation and population decline, presenting new evidence on the upstream determinants of the postsocialist demographic crisis.

2010 - 2014
MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
(Committee for Economic Affairs), Hungarian National Assembly, Budapest
2008 - 2009
SASKAWA YOUNG LEADERS FELLOWSHIP
Tokyo Foundation, Host: Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2005
M.A. IN SOCIONOGY & SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Central European University (CEU), Budapest

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