Iván Szelényi
Iván Szelényi | |
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Szelényi Iván | |
Szelényi in Budapest in 2009 | |
| Born | April 17, 1938 |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Occupation(s) | scholar, professor |
| Title | William Graham Sumner Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Yale University, Foundation Dean of Social Sciences, NYUAD |
| Board member of | Editorial Board of Theory & Society |
| Spouse | Valeria Vanilia Szelényi |
| Children | Szonja Ivester, Lilla Szelényi, Balázs Szelényi |
| Awards | Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Fellow at American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Széchenyi Prize |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Ph.D., D.Sc. |
| Alma mater | Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| Thesis | Urban inequalities under state socialism (1973) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Sociologist |
| Sub-discipline | Comparative sociology |
| Institutions | New York University, Yale University, University of California-Los Angeles, Graduate Center, CUNY, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Flinders University, Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| Notable students | Bruce Western, Lawrence King, Katherine Beckett |
| Main interests | Social inequality |
Iván Szelényi (born April 17, 1938 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-American sociologist, as of 2010 the Dean of Social Sciences at New York University Abu Dhabi.