Peter Torok Ph.D.

 Tel.: (+36-70) 215-8580

E-mail: peter.torok@freemail.hu

Editor-in-Chief, Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe

Born: June 16, 1959.

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Citizenship: Hungarian, Canadian

EDUCATION

1993 to 2000                 Ph. D. program University of Toronto, Department of Sociology.

1990 to 1991                 M. A. program University of Toronto, Department of Sociology.

1986 to 1990                 Joint specialist in philosophy and sociology, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto.

1978 to 1983                 University of Agricultural Sciences, Gödöllô (Hungary). Diploma.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

University of Szeged, Department for the Study of Religions

2001 –                                      Assistant Professor

National Institute for Family- and Social Policy

2001 –                                      Deputy Director of Research

Pazmany Peter Catholic Univ. Hungary, Department of Sociology

2000 Fall term                           Lecturer: Sociology of Religion, Political Sociology, GIS

University of Toronto, Department of Sociology

1993-99                                    Teaching Assistant

RESEARCH

Hungarian Institute for Sociology of Religion

1991 to 1992

Vienna                                      Independent research on the situation of the revived religious orders.

International Jacques Maritain Institute and the University of Fribourg - Switzerland

1992 to 1993

Budapest                                  Responsible for covering Hungary and the Hungarian speaking dioceses of Rumania in the international project on "Ethics, Economics and Development, Episcopal Teaching from Five Continents".

Aufbruch

2000 to 2001

Szeged - Berlin                          Responsible for the theme of “International Relationships”

Department for the Study of Religions, University of Szeged

2001 –

Szeged                                      Independent research on the Hungarian NRMs

SKILLS

Certified Translator: English, social sciences

Certified Photographer: New York Institute of Photography-

Languages spoken: Hungarian, English, German; Reading knowledge: French

-     Computer:

Microsoft Office

System Statistics: SPSS-X

GIS (Arcview)

HONORS

- Fulbright Alumni Initiatives Award (co-author) 2004

- Canadian Goverment’s Faculty Enrichment Program Award 2004

- NATO Advanced Scholarship (London UK) 2001

- Helicon Scholarship (Canada) 1999

- Faludi F. Scholarship (Hungary), 1996-97 (Social Sciences)

- Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1994-95 (Sociology)

- Graduation with Distinction, University of Toronto, 1990

- Rakoczi-Award (Univ. of Toronto, Hungarian Literature), 1989

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS