I was born in Budapest, Hungary on June 1, 1976 to graphic artist and painter Boromisza Zsolt and high school art teacher Mikola Judit. Ironically, I have absolutely zero artistic talent.

After attending the Piarist High School in Budapest I studied Hungarian and English language and literature at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Hungary. My years at PPCU were marked by a passion for literature and literary theory. I wrote my theses on the concept of "culture" in New Critical interpretations of William Faulkner and on the symbolic universe of the epics of 19th century Hungarian Romantic poet Vörösmarty Mihály.

My interest in literary theory soon subsided and I decided to seek out a field of study that was more closely concerned with how people, and not texts, interact. I pursued my Master's studies at the Department of Communication at SUNY-Albany. Then, after a brief stint as a junior communications consultant and political lobbyist in Hungary I returned to the States to complete my Ph.D. at the Department of Communication at UMass-Amherst. In Amherst, texts sneaked back into my research through the back door, in the form of cultural discourses.

Eager to take the study of communication outside the university I worked on developing an ethnographically informed security needs assessment protocol (SNAP) for the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research.

In 2004, I married Nora Habashi and received my stunningly long last name - and so did Nora. In 2005 our daughter Anna Boromisza-Habashi was born. Mira, our second daughter, followed in 2008. My family and I moved to Colorado in 2008 when I was hired by the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. We are busy familiarizing ourselves with the socio-cultural logic of the 'burbs in Erie, CO.