Balázs Berkovits is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, a researcher at the Comper Center at the University of Haifa, and a fellow of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA). He is also the book review editor of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism (JCA). He was trained as a philosopher and a sociologist in Hungary and France, and obtained a Nationalism Studies degree at Central European University (CEU), Budapest.
He has published on topics related to social theory, the epistemology of the social sciences, antisemitism, antizionism, and Hungarian Jewry. He is currently working on a study on the reemergence of the “Jewish problem” in contemporary works of philosophical, social, and political criticism, and on various projects dealing with the relationship between conspiracy theories, critique, and antisemitism. As a journalist, he occasionally writes about the political and social situation in contemporary Hungary.