Research Fellows
Senior Research Fellow, 15 February - 15 August, 2020
Professor of Contemporary European History
Research Interests
Cold War era history of everyday life; the social and cultural history of the party-state apparatus class; history of academic regime and social science research (sociology and economics)
Max Weber Post-Doctoral Fellow, European University Institute Budapest
Research Interests
- historical (macro-)sociolinguistics, the interface of language and nationalism, history of language policies, linguistic standardizations, socio-cultural history of Central/ Eastern/Southeastern Europe in the long nineteenth century
Associate Research Fellow, Contemporary History Research Team, Hungarian Acadamy of Sciences, Research Center for the Humanities Institute of History
Research Interests
- contemporary history, historical anthropology, historiography
Max Weber Post-Doctoral Fellow, European University Institute in Florence.
Research Interests
- intellectual history of feminism in post-WWII state-socialist Eastern Europe
- the conceptual and cultural history of violence and women's rights
Markian ProkopovychLeverhulme Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
Research Interests
• cultural history of East Central Europe, 19th and 20th century
• urban history
• modern European history
• nationalism studies
• history of architecture, public celebrations and music
• history of science and technology
• migration history
Katalin StránerVisiting Lecturer, Central European University, Budapest
Research Interests
- academic and popular reception of Darwinism 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
- the effect of migration and exile on knowledge transfer