Bába, Barbara

Barbara Bába (Barbara Gacsályi-Bába) earned her Ph.D. in 2013 in the field of historical linguistics and toponomastics. Based on her research, she published a monograph Földrajzi köznevek térben és időben [Geographical common nouns in space and time] and the closely related co-authored publication Magyar földrajzi köznevek tára [Repository of Hungarian geographical common nouns]. Later, she worked as a researcher at the Research Group on Hungarian Language History and Toponomastics (University of Debrecen—Hungarian Academy of Sciences), and from February 2016 she held the position of an assistant lecturer at the Department of Hungarian Linguistics of the University of Debrecen. Since September 2018, she has been a senior lecturer at the department. She has participated in the creation of the electronic database called Magyar Névarchívum [Hungarian name archives] as its coordinator and contributed to the publication of various volumes in the series Magyar Névarchívum Kiadványai [Publications of the Hungarian name archives] as a technical editor. She has been participating in the broader work of the department for a decade now, the tangible result of which is the publication Hajdú-Bihar megye helynevei 1. A Hajdúböszörményi és a Hajdúhadházi járás helynevei [Toponyms of Hajdú-Bihar county. Toponyms of the Hajdúböszörmény és Hajdúhadház districts] edited by her in 2015. In 2016 and 2017, she was awarded the Higher Education Young Researcher and Lecturer Scholarship of the New National Excellence Programme of the Ministry of Human Capacities. From 2018 to 2021, she conducted research in the field of historical dialectology as a Premium Postdoctoral Fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 2020, she has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Magyar Nyelvjárások. She has published in Hungarian and English both in Hungary and internationally.