András Ludanyi

András (Andrew) Ludányi was born February 12, 194O in Szikszó (Abaúj County) Hungary. His family fled from Hungary to Austria during the Winter of 1944-45 to avoid the Soviet occupation.  They were Displaced Persons (DPs) near Salzburg in refugee camps until 1949.  The family was sponsored by NCWC and were able to emigrate to the United States. In the US, their first home became Victoria and later Amelia Virginia, where they became farmhands on two dairy farms.  With the help of relatives already settled in NYC, they were able to settle in Astoria, where Andrew received his education at P.S.122 and at Long Island City High School.  In 1960 he began his higher education at Elmhurst College in Illinois where he received his B.A. degree in History, followed by his studies at Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge) where he received his M.A.  (1965), and Ph.D. (1971) in Political Science.  He began his teaching career at Ohio Northern University as an instructor in 1968 and moved up the ladder to conclude his teaching career as Emeritus Professor in 2008. At ONU he was responsible for courses in International Relations and Comparative Politics.  His studies and publications have focused mainly on ethnic and minority nationality relations in East Central Europe and the United States. He has edited three books in this area and over eighty scholarly articles, including the production of a documentary film on the ethnic community in Toledo, Ohio ("Urban Turf and Ethnic Soul") in 1985.  Finally, his autobiography has appeared in Hungarian (2020) and in English (2023).  At ONU he has also held the Binckley Chair in History and Political Science and the Robson Chair in Government.  He has also been a Fulbright/IREX researcher in Budapest (1981-82) and a Fulbright Professor at the Kossuth Lajos University in Debrecen (1991-92).  In Budapest, his responsibilities include being on the Advisory Council of the Veritas History Institute and Archives.

András is particularly proud of his role as one of the founding members of the ITT OTT periodical and Yearbook and the Hungarian Communion of Friends which organizes the annual conferences at Lake Hope State Park since 1976.

He has two daughters (Csilla and Anikó) from his first wife Panni Nádas and three great grandchildren.  They all reside in the Houston, Texas area.  András resides in Ada, Ohio from August to October and in Budapest with his second wife Márika Gaal from November to July.