Position: Research Fellow

Department: Contemporary History

Address: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

Room: B.5.40.

Phone: +36 1 224-6700/4670

Email: 

QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D. in History, Indiana University (Bloomington USA), 2022

M.A. in Nationalism Studies, Central European University (Budapest), 2013

M.A. in British Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest, 2011

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

The transnational history of East Central Europe in the 20th century, with an interest in Hungary during state socialism. Research interests include the Cold War, cultural diplomacy, cultural exchanges, intellectual transfers, elite mobility, and the history of education.

PUBLICATIONS

A complete list of publications: mtmt.hu

List of selected publications:

• Trans-systemic Mobility, Travel Reports, and Knowledge Acquisition in Cold War Hungary (1960s-70s) . EUROPEAN REVIEW OF HISTORY / REVUE EUROPEENNE D'HISTOIRE 30.2 (2023)
• “They Were All Looking West”: Robert F. Byrnes’s Travel Report on Hungary in 1962. HUNGARIAN STUDIES REVIEW 49 : 2 pp. 224-250. , 27 p. (2022)
• A transznacionálitás privilégiuma: Hidegháborús utazások típusai az államszocialista Magyarországon. In: Takács, Róbert (ed.) A nyitott zárt ország : Kulturális és tudományos érintkezések az 1970-es és 1980-as években Magyarország és a Nyugat között Budapest: Napvilág Kiadó (2022) 292 p. pp. 63-92. , 30 p.
• Rethinking Mobility and Openness in Socialism: Forms of Transsystemic Travel in Cold War Hungary. In: Ana, Luleva et. al. (eds.) Everyday Socialism: Promises, Realities and Strategies. Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2022) 256 p. pp. 26-49. , 24 p.
• We Understand Each Other: Writers from Eastern Europe and the Global South at the International Writing Program (1970s).In: Kerry, Bystrom; Monica, Popescu; Katherine, Zien (eds.) The Cultural Cold War and the Global South : Sites of Contest and Communitas London: Routledge (2021) pp. 92-108. , 17 p.
• „Az új kalandozások kora”: A Kulturális Kapcsolatok Intézetének működése az 1960–70-es években. In: Lengvári, István (ed.) Felsőoktatási intézményeink külkapcsolatai a 20. században. : A 2020. november 12-én tartott konferencia előadásai Pécs: PTE Egyetemi Levéltár (2021) 152 p. pp. 63-85. , 23 p.
• The Shock of Seeing the Freedom of American Life: The Iowa International Writing Program as Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War. Annals of Iowa 79 : 2 pp. 153-185. , 33 p. (2020) 
• Promoting the Kodály Method during the Cold War: Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy and the Transnational Network of Music Educators in the 1960s and 1970s. MÚLTUNK - POLITIKATÖRTÉNETI FOLYÓIRAT 64, pp. 107-140. , 34 p. (2019)
• The Anti-Political Vision: Post-1968 Theories of Dissent in Central Europe and Beyond. In: Aleksandra, Konarzewska; Anna, Nakai; Michał, Przeperski (ed.) Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present: Revisiting the 50 Years of Discussions from East and Central Europe London: Routledge (2019) pp. 41-56. , 16 p.
• From the Zitzer Club to the Battle of Laslovo: The Involvement of the Hungarian Minorities in the 1991-1995 Yugoslav Wars. ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIETY AND POLITICS 7 : 2 pp. 7-24. , 18 p. (2012)