Erzsébet Fazekas is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department of Columbia University. A native of Hungary, she earned an undergraduate degree in Literature and Linguistics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and an MA degree in sociology from the Central European University, Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include political and economic sociology, as well as transition studies. In her previous work, Fazekas looked at the institutionalization of cyberspace for civil society use and the use of information technologies by nonprofit organizations in Hungary and Poland. She also studied the formation of a new tax law in Hungary and how it affected the funding of nonprofit organizations. Fazekas’s most recent work addresses civil society development, nonprofit organizations and democratization in postcommunist Eastern Europe. Her dissertation research draws on the new institutionalism of organizational analysis and actor-network theory to explore the institutional development of the nonprofit sector in Hungary and the rise of the organizational field of nonprofit metaorganizations. In addition, she is currently collaborating with faculty members on projects about state contracts to New York City nonprofits and an international community of scientists studying the ecosystem.

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