Gyuris, Ferenc

Address: 1117 Budapest (Hungary), Pázmány Péter sétány 1/C
Office: Room 1.406
Phone: +36-1-372-2500 / 8129
Email: ferenc.gyuris(at)ttk.elte.hu

The full list of publications is available here.

Books

Gyuris, F., Michel, B. & Paulus, K. (Eds.) (2022). Recalibrating the Quantitative Revolution in Geography: Travels, Networks, Translations. London & New York: Routledge. 242 p. (URL)

Travis, C., Ludlow, F. & Gyuris, F. (Eds.) (2020). Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis: Landscapes of Time and Place. Cham: Springer. 272 p. (URL)

Gyuris, F. (2014). The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities: Geographical Inequalities Between Science and Propaganda. Cham: Springer. 381 p. (URL)

Other selected publications

Gyuris, F., Jobbitt, S. & Győri, R. (2024). Hungarian Geography between 1870 and 1920: Negotiating empire and coloniality on the global semiperiphery. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 114 (4), 652–670. (URL)

Gyuris, F. & Michel, B. (2024). Quantitative revolution in geography. In B. Warf (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Cham: Springer. Chapter 206-1. (URL)

Gyuris, F. (2022). Diversifying dependencies? Hungary, the EU, and the multifaceted geopolitics of Chinese infrastructure investments. In S. Schindler & J. DiCarlo (Eds.), The Rise of the Infrastructure State: How US-China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide (pp. 254–266). Bristol: Bristol University Press. (URL)

Gyuris, F. (2022). Commons. In N. Castree, M. F. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu, R. A. Marston (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. Chichester & Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. wbieg2103. (URL)

Gyuris, F. (2021). Spatial inequality. In N. Castree, M. F. Goodchild, A. Kobayashi, W. Liu, R. A. Marston (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology. Chichester & Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. wbieg2119. (URL)

Csanádi, M. & Gyuris, F. (2020). Uneven Economic Overheating in a Transforming Party-State During the Global Crisis: The Case of China. CERS-IE Working Papers 2020/36. (URL)

Csanádi, M., Gyuris, F. & Wang, W. (2020). Opening Up the Black Box: Interacting Subspheres through Enterprise Entry and Exit in China. CERS-IE Working Papers 2020/37. (URL)

Gyuris, F. (2019). Ideology, spatial planning, and rural schools: From interwar to Communist Hungary. In H. Jahnke, C. Kramer & P. Meusburger, P. (Eds.), Geographies of Schooling (pp. 97–124). Cham: Springer. (URL)

Gyuris, F. (2018). Geographies of development in the twenty-first century. In M. W. Solarz (Ed.), New Geographies of the Globalized World (pp. 30–53). Abingdon & New York: Routledge. (URL)

Gyuris, F. (2018). Problem or solution? Academic internationalisation in contemporary human geographies in East Central Europe. Geographische Zeitschrift 106 (1), 38–49. (URL)

Gyuris, F. (2017). Urban inequality: Approaches and narratives. In U. Gerhard, M. Hoelscher, & D. Wilson (Eds.), Inequalities in Creative Cities (pp. 41–76). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (URL)

Győri, R. & Gyuris, F. (2015). Knowledge and power in Sovietized Hungarian geography. In P. Meusburger, D. Gregory & L. Suarsana (Eds.), Geographies of Knowledge and Power (pp. 203–233). Dordrecht: Springer. (URL)

Gyuris, F. (2014). Basic education in Communist Hungary. A commons approach. International Journal of the Commons 8 (2), 531–553. (URL)

Gyuris, F. (2014). Human geography, cartography, and statistics: A toolkit for geopolitical goals in Hungary until World War II. Hungarian Cultural Studies 7, 214–241. (URL)

Gyuris, F. & Győri R. (2013). Sovietized science at the service of "socialist national economy". The example of Hungarian geography, 1945-1960. Berichte: Geographie und Landeskunde 87 (1), 7–25. (URL)

Győri, R. & Gyuris, F. (2012). The Sovietisation of Hungarian geography, 1945–1960. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft 154, 107–128. (URL)

Approaches to Spatial Disparities (ERASMUS international course)

Economic Geography (seminar)

Global Economic Geography (seminar)

Introduction to Human Geography (lecture)

New Research Approaches and Methods in Human Geography (seminar)

Social and Economic Geography of Hungary (lecture)

Spatial Disparities: Theories and Practices (seminar)

Geographies and Geopolitics of Knowledge (Ph.D. course)

Geographies of Socialism and Post-Socialism (Ph.D. course)

Spatial Disparity Research (Ph.D. course)

Program coordinator
Geography M.Sc.

Head of workshop in special college
ELTE Márton Áron College, Workshop of Science

Editorial activities
Hungarian Geographical Bulletin (managing editor, Scimago Q1)

Springer Historical Geography and Geosciences book series (series advisory editor)

Espaço e Economia: Brazilian Journal of Economic Geography (editorial board member)

Academic coordinator of Erasmus+ ICM lecturer and student mobility programs with the following partner institutions:

• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine (Earth Sciences)
• Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia (Earth Sciences)

Academic membership
American Association of Geographers, American Hungarian Educators Association, Heidelberg Geographical Society, Hungarian Geographical Society

ELTE Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Institute Council & Strategic and Budget Committee

Promising Researcher of Eötvös Loránd University Award, ELTE (2024)

Bolyai Memorial Certificate, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2023)

Szádeczky-Kardoss Elemér Prize, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Earth Sciences Division (2018)

The Rector’s Excellence Award, ELTE (2016)

Junior Prima Award, funded by the Hungarian Development Bank (2015) (the most prestigious award for young researchers in Hungary, 10 award winners per year from all disciplines)

Youth Publication Excellence Award, Hungarian Geographical Society (2014)

“For Eötvös Collegium” Prize (2009)

Individual projects

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Bolyai János Research Scholarship 2019–2022 (The changing position of Hungarian geography in the international academic domain)

ÚNKP (Bolyai+) Scholarship 2021–2022 (Regional economic growth in China and Russia)

ÚNKP (Bolyai+) Scholarship 2020–2021 (Lessons from new global economic trends for economic geography research and education in Hungary)

ÚNKP (Bolyai+) Scholarship 2019–2020 (The connection between the global mobility of knowledge and regional and local economic development)

ÚNKP (Bolyai+) Scholarship 2017–2018 (The impact of economic and political crises on the regional inequalities of development)

NKFIH Postdoctoral Excellence Program 2016–2017 (New spatial disparities after the global crisis)

Herzog Ernst Scholarship, Thyssen Foundation, Germany (1 month) 2016 (Geopolitical imaginations of East Central Europe in German maps during World War I and the interwar period)

DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service scholarship, Germany (3 months) 2015 (Grenzrevisionen als Zivilisierungsprojekt: Politische Raumbilder in der ungarischen Geographie in der Zwischenkriegszeit)

Erdős Pál Scholarship for Young Researchers 2014 (Spatial inequalities in socialist and post-socialist Eastern and East Central Europe)

Landesgraduiertenförderung Ph.D. Scholarship of the State Baden-Württemberg in Germany (30 months) 2010–2012

Team projects

EU Water4All 2022 Joint Transnational Call on Management of water resources, Water4All-2022-FP-00183, 2023–2026 (ClimEx-PE: Climate Extremes buffering through groundwater flow-based Managed Aquifer Recharge and Public Engagement) (task leader)

EACEA (European Education and Culture Executive Agency, EU) ERASMUS-EDU-2023-EMJM-DESIGN, 2023–2024 (POLGEO – Joint Degree in Political Geography) (program board member)

NKFIH (National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary) K115932 2015–2019 (Power relations, state reactions on economic crises, overheated investments and their cycles in party-states using the example of China)

OTKA (National Scientific Research Fund, Hungary) K83563 2011–2014 (The uneven spatial impact of stimulus programs on migration and the dynamics of transformation in China)

OTKA (National Scientific Research Fund, Hungary) K67981 2008–2010 (Economic growth – regional inequalities – direct investment flow in China)

98 papers & panels at academic conferences, 50 outside of Hungary, in 13 countries. (Invited lecturer, among others, in Beijing, Boston, Cluj-Napoca, Graz, Heidelberg, Manchester, Moscow, New Orleans, Urbana-Champaign, Vienna, Washington D.C.)

88 other academic guest lectures and 2 full courses at universities and research institutes, 65 outside of Hungary (in Austria, China, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States).

Organizer and co-organizer of 3 international conferences (Budapest, Kiel) and 6 international conference session with physical attendance (Bonn, Budapest, Eichstätt, Freiburg, London, New Orleans).