Attila Z Papp Editor

Arpad Szakolczai is Professor of Sociology at University College Cork, Ireland, and has previously taught at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. His recent books include Comedy and the Public Sphere (2013), Novels and the Sociology of the Contemporary (2016) and Permanent Liminality and Modernity: Analysing the Sacrificial Carnival through Novels (2017).

Agnes Horvath is a sociologist and political scientist with an interest in an anthropological understanding of modernity. She has taught in Hungary, Italy and Ireland. Her publications include The Dissolution of Communist Power (1992), Modernism and Charisma (2013), and Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality (2015).

Attila Z. Papp is a sociologist, and he is director of the Institute for Minority Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Centre for Social Sciences. His articles are included in 21st Century Hungarian Language Survival in Transylvania (2015) and Minority Hungarian Communities in the Twentieth Century (2010).