Balázs Berkovits was trained as a philosopher and a sociologist in Hungary and France, and obtained a Nationalism Studies degree at Central European University (CEU).He is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Haifa, where he teaches courses on the history of East-Central-European Jewry, and antisemitism.  He is also a fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA), member of the editorial board of the journal K. Jews, Europe and the XXIst century, and the book review editor of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism (JCA).  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, which deal with the relationship between conspiracy theories, critique, and antisemitism. Occasionally, he also writes on the political and social situation in contemporary Hungary.