GERGELY KRISZTIÁN HORVÁTH (Ajka, 1974), D. Phil., is a social historian. He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. From 2001 to 2017 he taught Social History of Hungary at ELTE. Between 2000–2008 was founder and general editor of Korall Társadalomtörténeti Folyóirat. Since 2014 he has been coordinating the work of the Rural History Research Group of the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA BTK) and the Committee of National Remembrance (NEB). His field of research is the history of the rural society in the Carpathian Basin between the 18th and 20th centuries. His main research focuses on the period after 1945, especially collectivisation. In 2019 he set up a research group at the Hungarian Academy of Science called Lendület Project. The project concentrates on the social history of the rural population in the Carpathian Basin from the 18th century up to the present.