Zoltan Kelemen has been Assistant Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest since 2016. He has also taught at other universities in his hometown Budapest. In the academic year 2017-2018, he was tutor at Central European University (CEU) where was teaching International Relations and Political Science. He was Academic and Pedagogical Director at Saint Ignatius Jesuit College between 2018 and 2020. Zoltan defended his PhD in International Relations summa cum laude in 2019. The title of his dissertation was ‘A Historically Revised Model of Neomedievalism and the European Union as Regimen Mixtum’. He was guest lecturer at Durham University (UK) in 2015, the University of Alberta in Edmonton (Canada) in 2016, the University of Business and Technology in Prishtina (Kosovo) in 2019, Soochow University in Taipei (Taiwan) in 2017 and Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) in 2022. In 2017, he received a tuition waiver for CEU’s summer school ‘Jews and Christians between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean: Co-existence and Conflict’. Zoltan was participant at the Teacher Training Summer School of the European University Institute in 2019. In 2021, he won the ‘Lecturer of the Year Award’ at Corvinus University of Budapest. In 2022, he was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh where he was instructing the David C. Frederick Honors College Course ‘Rule of Law and Democracy in Europe’.
Currently, he is Eötvös scholar at Ludwig-Maximilian University’s Project House Europe. His field of research is IR neomedievalism and the crisis of liberal democracy in the European Union.