Prof. Dr. habil. Balogh Judit

Judit Balogh graduated in 1991 from the University of Debrecen with a degree in Hungarian Language and Literature and History. In 1991, she spent six months as a visiting researcher at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. Between 1992 and 2014, she taught at the University of Miskolc; for one semester she was a lecturer at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, and since 2015 she has been a faculty member at Eszterházy Károly Catholic University. She received her PhD in 2002 and habilitated at the University of Debrecen in 2008. Since 2019, she has been a professor at Eszterházy Károly Catholic University.
In 2000, together with two colleagues, she founded the journal Egyháztörténeti Szemle, of which she is the responsible editor. She serves on the editorial boards of Sárospataki Füzetek, the Prešov-based journal Historia Ecclesiastica, Studia UBB Theologia Reformata Transylvanica, and Kelet-Közép-Európai Történelmi Tanulmányok.
Her research interests include the history of Puritanism, the history of the Reformation in Hungary, the history of the Székely nobility, the history of the Principality of Transylvania, social history, and women’s history.
She is a member of several bodies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, including the Committee on Historical Studies, the Miskolc Regional Committee, the Working Committee on Women’s History, the Subcommittee on Social Theory, the Working Committee on Historical Studies, and the Working Committee on the Study of Religion, of which she serves as chair.
Her awards and fellowships include the Scientific Award of the Miskolc Regional Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2024; the Szentágothai János Fellowship of the National Excellence Programme in 2013–2014; the Bolyai János Research Fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006–2009 and 2010–2013; the MAB Scientific Award in 2003; an anniversary certificate from the University of Miskolc in 2003; the Békésy György Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2003–2006; several Art Awards from the City of Miskolc; and fellowships from the George Soros Foundation.
She is a member of the SRHE Újszászy Kálmán Institute for Reformed Heritage Studies and of the HUN-REN–ELTE research group Noble Emigration and Memory, 1541–1756: Source Research and Critical Text Edition. She is the author of four monographs and more than 150 academic studies published in Hungary and abroad. She also regularly gives public lectures and writes articles for a wider audience. She has two adult children and lives in Miskolc with her husband. During her university years, she came to faith and, from a traditionally Reformed background, became a practicing believer.