Balazs Vedres

Balazs Vedres is an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, finishing his studies at Columbia University. His research interests include economic sociology, economic transformation, social networks, historical and discourse analysis methods. In his most recent research project with David Stark, Vedres has developed methods to chart the historical transformations of network structures in the Hungarian post-socialist transformation, building on a combination of optimal matching and social network analysis methods. His recent publications concern the interdependence of strategizing agents and evolving network structures in large scale social change, in the areas of business networks, political discourse, and civil society organizations.