Rita Hornok is a Research Assistant at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, in the international research project "REGROUP – Rebuilding Governance and Resilience out of the Pandemic" (Horizon Europe). She is an Academic Coordinator for the English language programmes "BA in European Studies" and "MA in European Studies."
With a Bachelor's degree in European Studies from the Comenius University in Bratislava (2015) and a Master’s degree from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (2017), she also holds a Master’s degree in Nationalism Studies from the Central European University in Budapest (2019). Currently a PhD Candidate at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences at JU (2020–). She was awarded the Visegrad Fund research fellowship on political myths in Central Europe at the Charles University in Prague (2022). Guest Lecturer at the Division of Central and Eastern European Studies at Lund University (2023) and the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University (2021–). Her research interests include Hungarian Turanism, Hungarian foreign policy, memory politics in Central Europe, nationalism, and minorities in Central Eastern Europe.