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I am a historian of modern Europe, specialising in the history of science, urban history and the study of translation and reception in the history of ideas. My research interests include the academic and popular reception of Darwinism and evolution in Hungary and Central Europe; the study of knowledge production and transfer in the long nineteenth century; the role of translation and literature in the dissemination of scientific thought; the role of the city and urban culture, including the urban press, in the circulation and transformations of knowledge; the history of scientific societies, associations and institutions; and the effect of migration and exile on knowledge transfer. A visiting lecturer in the Department of History, I am also a Research Fellow at Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies at CEU.
Fellowships and Awards:
Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, 2016-2017.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, 2014
Fellow, History of Science Department, Harvard University, 2009
Marie Curie European Doctorate Fellow, Department of History and Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London, UK, 2008-2009
Kellner Scholarship, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, 2002-2003
Teaching
Cities and Science: Urban History and the History of Science in the Study of Early Modern and Modern Europe, Summer 2016, CEU Summer University
Approaches to Urban History and Culture (Topical Survey), Fall 2015, CEU
Advanced Hungarian Source Reading in Historiography, Fall 2015, CEU
Cities and Science: Urban History and the History of Science in the Study of Early Modern and Modern Europe, Summer 2015, CEU Summer University
Cities, the Public Sphere and Scientific Knowledge in 19th Century Europe, Winter 2015, CEU
The English Novel, Winter 2002, ELTE
Conference Organisation
“Cities, Science and Satire: Satirical Representations of Urban Modernity and Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Public Space,” Specialist Session at Reinterpreting Cities: 13th Conference on Urban History, European Association for Urban History, Helsinki (with Markian Prokopovych), August 24-27, 2016.
"Cities and Science: Re-Examining the Connection," Panel at Urban History Group 2016: Re-Evaluating the Place of the City in History (with Markian Prokopovych), University of Cambridge, 31 March-1 April 2016.
"Knowledge, Associations and Urban Space in the Nineteenth Century," Panel at Urban History Group 2015: Urban Knowledge (with Markian Prokopovych and Rosemary H. Sweet), University of Wolverhampton, 26-27 March 2015.
“Science and Satire: Science, Technology and Medicine in the 19th Century Satirical Press,” Session at the 6th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Lisbon (with Markian Prokopovych), 4-6 September 2014.
“Science and Scandal: Scientific Controversy in the Urban Space,” Session at the 5th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Athens (with Markian Prokopovych), 1-4 November 2012.
Nomadic Concepts: Biological Concepts and their Careers Beyond Biology, Herder Institute for the History of East-Central Europe, Marburg (with Jan Surman), 18-19 October 2012.
Darwin in Urban Contexts, 1859-1930, Session at the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Barcelona (with Hans Henrik Hjermitslev and Daniel Schümann), 18-20 November 2010.