Position: Research Fellow

Department: Interwar History

 

Address: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

Room: B.5.42.

Phone: +36 1 224-6700/4685

Email: fedeles-czeferner.dora@abtk.hu

FIELD OF RESEARCH

The development, international embeddedness, and press activity of progressive women’s movements in Hungary and Austria from the 1890s to the late 1940s. Transnational relations in women’s movements in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and its successor states. The history and international contacts of the Hungarian progressive-feminists women’s associations, life and career of Rosika Schwimmer.

 

WORKPLACES

2023–              HUN REN Hungarian Research Network, Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, Horthy Era Research Group, research fellow

2021–2023      University of Vienna Institute of Contemporary History, Project staff member in the FWF project Women writing to women’s movement activists, ~1870-1930 Project number V-807 (from 2/2021)

2020–2022      University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of Educational and Cultural History, lecturer

2019–2023      Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History, Horthy Era Research Group, junior research fellow

2019/2020       University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Educational Sciences, Department of the History of Education and Cultural Studies, assistant lecturer

 

PHD DEFENSE

2020                Summa cum laude (100%). Title of dissertation: Bourgeois-liberal, Feminist Women’s Organizations and their Press Activity in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Associations, Periodicals, Content Analysis

 

PRIZES

2023    Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for Young Researchers

2022    Péter Hanák Prize

 

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

2020/2021       Participation as junior research fellow in the research project Academic anti-Semitism and its long-term impact on women’s emancipation, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. McGill University, Montreal, Canada

2019/2020       Participation as a junior research fellow in the research project The numerus clausus in Hungary: antisemitism, gender, and exile a hundred years on, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. McGill University, Montreal, Canada

 

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

French –Type C intermediate language exam (B2), 2023

English – Type C advanced language exam (C1), 2006

German – Type C advanced language exam (C1), 2005

 

POSTGRADUATE STUDIES

2013–2018      University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, Modern History Program

2014/2015       University of Leipzig

 

GRADUATE STUDIES

2010-2013      University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, History MA

2006-2010      University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, BA in English Studies (History Minor)

 

SCHOLARSHIPS, RESEARCH ABROAD

2024                Collegium Hungaricum Scholarship, Austria, Vienna (2 months)

2023                Stiftung Aktion Österreich-Ungarn, Austria, Vienna (1 month)

2023/2024       New National Excellence Program, Postdoctoral Scholarship (12 months)

2022/2023       Project grant of The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies

2021/2022       Collegium Hungaricum Scholarship, Austria, Vienna (2 months)

2020/2021       National Scholarship for Young Talent (10 months)

2020                Collegium Hungaricum Scholarship, Austria, Vienna (3 months, only 1 month expected due to pandemic)

2019                Collegium Hungaricum Scholarship, Austria, Vienna (3 months)

2019-2020      New National Excellence Program, Doctoral Candidate Fellowship, (10 months)

2019                Kuno Klebelsberg Scholarship, USA, New York (1 month)

2019                Campus Mundi Scholarship, USA, New York (1 month)

2019                Erasmus Scholarship, Portugal, Porto (1 week)

2018                Collegium Hungaricum Scholarship, Austria, Vienna (2 months)

2018                Campus Mundi Scholarship, Austria, Vienna (1 month)

2017-2018      New National Excellence Program Doctoral Scholarship (10 months)

2017                Kuno Klebelsberg Scholarship, USA, New York (2 months)

2017                Campus Mundi Scholarship, Manchester, United Kingdom (1 month)

2016                Campus Mundi Scholarship, Austria, Vienna (1 month)

2016                Austro-Hungarian Action Foundation Ernst Mach Scholarship, Austria, Vienna (4 months)

2016                Collegium Hungaricum Scholarship, Austria, Vienna (2 months)

2014-2015      DAAD Scholarship, Germany, Leipzig (10 months)

2014                Balassi Institute Campus Hungary Scholarship, Worcester, United Kingdom (1 month)

2014                Collegium Hungaricum Scholarship, Austria, Vienna (1 month)

2014                Erasmus Scholarship. Augsburg, Germany (2 weeks)

2013                Balassi Institute Campus Hungary Scholarship, Austria, Vienna (1 month)

2013-2014      National Excellence Program Apáczai Csere János PhD Scholarship (12 months)

2013                Balassi Institute Campus Hungary Scholarship, Austria, Vienna (1 month)

2013-2014      National Excellence Program Eötvös Loránd Student Scholarship (10 months)

2013                Balassi Institute Campus Hungary Scholarship, Leipzig, Germany (1 month)

2012                PTE Research Grant, Austria, Vienna (1.5 months)

2011-2013      Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic

 

EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

2021-              One of the editors of the podcast series of the Research Center for the Humanities (Glossza)

2017-2018      Column Editor (Portrait), Újkor.hu

2016-2017      Research Fellow, Queen Elizabeth Foundation

2015-2017      Intern, Kronos Publishing House

 

MEMBERSHIPS

2024–              Vice-president of the Working Committee on Women’s History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2021–              Member of the Working Committee on Women’s History of the Hungarian Academy of Saciences

2020–              Member of the Public Board of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

 

PUBLICATIONS

A complete list of publications: mtmt.hu

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

 

MONOGRAPHS IN HUNGARIAN

• Nőmozgalom, nemzetköziség, önreprezentáció. Feministák az Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia alkonyán [Women’s movement, internationalism, self-representation. Feminists in the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy]. Kronosz, Pécs, 2023.
• Kultúrmisszó vagy propaganda? Feminista lapok és olvasóik Bécsben és Budapesten [Cultural Mission or Propaganda? Feminist Journals and their Readers in Vienna and Budapest]. Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont [Research Centre for the Humanities], Budapest, 2021.

PAPERS

• Interpretation and Discourse of Women’s Labour Activism in the Austro–Hungarian bourgeois-liberal, feminist press (1907–1919). In: Susan Zimmermann et. al. (Ed.): Through the Prism of Gender and Work. Women’s Labour Struggles in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond, 19th and 20th Centuries. Brill, Leyden. 2023. 321–347.
• The Significance of the Rosika Schwimmer Papers in New York. Hungarian Studies Review. 49, (2022): 2. 258–265.

FORTHCOMING

• Progressive Women’s Movements in Austria and Hungary: Conflict, Cooperation, Circulation. Indiana University Press. To be published: May 2025.