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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.

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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

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2014 - 2016

CHAIRMAN OF PROGRESSIVE HUNGARY FOUNDATION (MMAA)

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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

GEORGE BLAZYCA PRIZE.jfif

2022

GEORGE BLAZYCA PRIZE - for “major contributions to East European Studies”

British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)

2022

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2020

The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary (Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century)

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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.

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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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GÁBOR SCHEIRING

Tracing the path of the polycrisis of liberal globalism, while mapping the responses
that foster economic and political revival.

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