Position: postdoctoral research fellow

Department: Church History Research Team / ERC Sovereignty

Address:1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

Email:

QUALIFICATIONS

M. A. in History, Department of History, University of Szeged, Hungary, 2008

M. A. in Comparative History, Department of History, Central European University, Hungary, 2013

PhD in Comparative History, Department of History, Central European University, Hungary, 2020

SCHOLARSHIPS

Erasmus + Programme, Study Abroad Faculty of Arts, Institute of Czech History, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (January 2016 – July 2016)

French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic (September 2016 – August 2017)

Doctoral Research Support Grant, Central European University (provider of the fellowship), University of Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom (host institution), Visiting Researcher, MCR Honorary Member (Michaelmas term 2017)

Doctoral Research Fellowship, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz, Germany (March 2018 – December 2018)

Aktion Österreich-Ungarn, AÖHU-Universitätslehrerstipendien, University of Vienna, Pez Workshop, Vienna, Austria (March 2019)

Write-up Grant, Central European University, Budapest-Vienna, Hungary-Austria (April 2019 – September 2019)

Research Fellowship at Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna, Austria (October 2020 – November 2020)

Global Teaching Fellowship Program; Central European University, Hungary (provider of the fellowship) and Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh (employer) (January 2020 – July 2020)

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

18^th century, cultural history, church history, social history of medicine, economic history, new military history, history of administration and state building

PROJECTS

ERC project, Negotiating Sovereignty: Challenges of Secularism and Nation Building in Central Eastern Europe since 1780, led by Dr. András Fejérdy (from March 2023 – present)

https://sovereignty.abtk.hu/

I work on the project as a postdoctoral research fellow since March 2023. I am focusing on the history of the relations between state and the Catholic church trough the negotiations on and practices of oaths of allegiance to the state in the Habsburg realms between 1780 and 1848.

ERC project, The European Fiscal-Military System 1530-1870 led by Peter Wilson, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (September 2020 – February 2023)

https://fiscalmilitary.history.ox.ac.uk/

I worked on the project as postdoctoral research associate and I investigated the role of Vienna as a main hub a military entrepreneurship in the early modern era. By tracing the fiscal-military networks of merchants, bankers, high-ranking military officers and diplomats and by considering Vienna not only as a major courtly residence, but also as an evolving diplomatic centre of the first decades of the eighteenth century, I managed to shed light on various, so-far unknown aspects of military contracting.

PUBLICATIONS

A complete list of publications: mtmt.hu

List of selected publications:

Monastic Prisons in the Eyes of Ecclesiastical and Secular Authorities, Storia e Regione/Geschichte und Region (2022) vol. 31 no. 1., 119-143.

Did Astronomy Constitute a Denominationally Neutral Space within the Republic of Letters? – An Outline for the Use of Visualization Tools in the Study of Astronomical Correspondence. (coauthored with Per Pippin Aspaas) In Österreichische Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts. Yearbook 34/2019. 65-90. https://doi.org/10.7767/9783205209096.65  

Healers, Quacks, Professionals: Monastery Pharmacies in the Rural Medical Marketplace. Society and Politics: Controversies in Intellectual History and Medicine: The Case of Losers, Heretics, and Outsiders. Invited editor: Fabrizio Baldassarri. (2018) Vol. 12 no. 1. 32-49.

http://socpol.uvvg.ro/docs/2018-1/03.Katalin_Pataki.pdf

Medical Provision in the Convents of Poor Clares in Late-eighteenth-century Hungary. Cornova. Revue České společnosti pro výzkum 18. století. (2016) vol. 6. no. 2. 33-58.

https://doi.org/10.51305/cor.2016.02.03