József Böröcz (born 1956, Budapest, Hungary) is a historical sociologist, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University since July 1, 2024.
[4] He studied literature, linguistics, culture theory, as well as Polish at Kossuth Lajos University of Sciences in Debrecen between 1976 and 1982.
In September 1983, he became a Hungarian-as-ancestral-language instructor in the elementary and high schools of Albany, Louisiana.
[4] He continued his PhD-training in the Program in Comparative International Development in the Department of Sociology at The Johns Hopkins University in 1986, where he soon became an academic advisee of, and research assistant to, Alejandro Portes.
His dissertation examined the effects of international tourism on socioeconomic, political and cultural life, through on a world-historical perspective, a European overview, and an Austro-Hungarian comparison.