Position: Senior Research Fellow

Department: History of Southeast Europe

Address: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

Room: B5.16/ B5.43

Phone: +36 1 224-6700/4319

Email:

QUALIFICATIONS

PhD in History (2007): diplomatic history: Aspirations of Small States and Great Power Interests during the Balkan Wars 1912-1913). University of Debrecen, Faculty of Humanities

PhD in Earth Sciences (2008): multivariate statistics, GIS, geomorphology: A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship Between Morphometric and Lithologic Features in the Bükk Mts. University of Debrecen, Faculty of Science and Technology

habilitated in 2017, historical geography, Debrecen University, Faculty of Science and Technology

Postgraduate education: Translator (English, Geography)

M.A. in History (teacher), University of Debrecen, Faculty of Humanities, 2003

M.A. in Geography (teacher), University of Debrecen, Faculty of Science, 2003

M.A. in Geography (Landscape protection), University of Debrecen, Faculty of Humanities, 2003

RESEARCH EXPERTISE  

Social and economic history of the Balkans, 18-20th century;

Diplomatic history of the Balkan Peninsula and Austria-Hungary (1908-1914);

Social and economic history of 19^th c. Hungary

Historical geography: migration, agrarian history, urban history, environmental history of Hungary

Methodology (hGIS, cliometry)

Basin research (coal and subsurface water reservoirs)

PROJECTS

2013-2017: Hungarian Research Fund - OTKA (K 108 919): Creating a GIS-aided database for Hungary under Ottoman Rule: senior researcher

2015-2017: Hungarian Research Fund: OTKA (K 111 766): Creating a GIS-aided database to study the regional differences within Hungary and Austria-Hungary (50 000 EUR) principal investigator

2018-2022: Hungarian Research Fund (FK 128 978): Knowledge, Landscape, Nation and Empire: Practices of knowing and transforming landscape in Hungary and the Balkans, 1850-1945, principal investigator

2017-2022: Hungarian Research Fund (K 124 921) After the Post-Soviet Period: A Geographical Analysis of Social Processes within the Shifting Eastern European Buffer Zone, researcher

2019-2023 /2013-2017: Hungarian Research Fund (K 132 609 / K 108 919): Exploration of cadastral surveys (tapu defter) of Ottoman Hungary and the periphery of the occupied region I-II. principal investigator

2020-2024: HAS RCH Lendület „Ten generations” senior research fellow (GIS, databases)

2021-2024 (K 135 814): Hungarian Historical Urban Atlases, research fellow (Ózd)

2022-2026: Hungarian Research Fund (FK 142451): Budapest - Environmental History of an Urban Area, research fellow

2022-2023: ELKH Proof of Concept Project, GISta Hungarorum, principal investigator

2022-2023: HAS Bulgarian-Hungarian bilateral mobility, principal investigator

2023-2025: HAS Macedonian-Hungarian bilateral mobility, principal investigator

PUBLICATIONS  

A complete list of publications: mtmt.hu

List of selected publications:

• Demeter, Gábor, and Zsolt Bottlik. Maps in the Service of the Nation: The Role of Ethnic Mapping in Nation-Building and Its Influence on Political Decision-Making Across the Balkan Peninsula (1840–1914). Regensburg: Frank & Timme, 2021 www.balkanethnicmaps.hu
• Demeter, Gábor et al., eds. A Historical Geographical Atlas of Hungary for the Analysis of Socio-Economic Phenomena (1869-1910). Budapest – Debrecen: Kapitális Nyomda, 2020 / http://gistahungarorum.abtk.hu
• Demeter, Gábor, and Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics. A Study in the Theory and Practice of Destabilization: Violence and Strategies of Survival in Ottoman Macedonia (1903–1913). Istanbul: Isis Press, 2018.
• Demeter, Gábor. “The Historical Roots of Regional Inequalities and Their Relationship with Present–Day Peripheries and Conflict Zones in the Post‑Soviet Realm (1897–2010).” In: Power and Identity in the Post-Soviet Realm: Geographies of Ethnicity and Nationality After 1991, edited by Zsolt Bottlik, Márton Berki, and Steven, Jobbitt, 3–40. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2021.
• Demeter, Gábor. “Territorial Disparities and Uneven Development in Hungary During the Time of Dualism.” In: The Creation of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: A Hungarian Perspective, edited by Gábor Gyáni, 291–325. New York: Routledge of Taylor and Francis Group, 2021.
• Demeter, Gábor. Agrarian Transformations in Southeastern Europe: from the late 18th century to World War II. Sofia: Institute for Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2017.
• Demeter, Gábor. Essays on Ottoman Modernization: Industrialization, Welfare, Military Reform. Sofia: Institute for Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2017.
• Demeter, Gábor. Diplomatic Struggle for Supremacy over the Balkan Peninsula 1878–1914. Sofia: Institute for Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2017.
• Demeter, Gábor, and Zsolt Horbulák. “Regional socio-economic inequalities before and after the collapse of the Hungarian Kingdom: modernization, ’magyarization’ and economic exploitation from a different perspective.” Historicky Časopis 69, no. 5  (2021): 889–919.
• Demeter, Gábor. Estimating Regional Inequalities in the Carpathian Basin – Historical Origins and Recent Outcomes (1880–2010). Regional Statistics 10, no. 1 (2020): 23–59.