Agnes Gagyi is a social movements researcher, focusing on Eastern European politics and social movements in long-term global historical context. Her recent projects involved East European versions of anti-austerity movements after 2008, a comparative study of waves of economic crisis and political mobilization in Hungary and Romania since 1970, and reorganizations of expert knowledge structures during changes in modes of world market integration after 1970. She is member of the Budapest-based Working Group for Public Sociology “Helyzet”.