Sándor Papp, historian and university professor, currently teaches at the University of Szeged and previously at Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church. He is Head of the Department of Medieval and Early Modern Hungarian History as well as the Department of Altaic Studies.

He obtained his PhD in 1998 at the University of Vienna. In 2011 he completed his habilitation at the University of Szeged, and in 2015 he was awarded the DSc degree by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1994 he has been a lecturer at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern Hungarian History at József Attila University (now University of Szeged), where he later became full professor and head of department. His research focuses on the history of early modern Hungary; the history of the Ottoman Empire and its vassal states; and the history of Transylvania, Moldavia, and Wallachia. A key field of his work is the diplomatic history of the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Among his most important publications in this area are: Peace Treaties between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary until 1519 (Archivum Ottomanicum 41 [2024] 97–140); Osmanlılar ve Macarlar. Bir Diplomatik Tarih (Istanbul, 2023); Török szövetség – Habsburg kiegyezés: A Bocskai-felkelés történetéhez (Budapest, 2014).