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Topic Advertisers of the Doctoral Program
E-mail: szilagyi.agnes@btk.elte.hu
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=127
Ágnes Judit Szilágyi is an associate professor with habilitation at the ELTE Institute of History’s Department of Modern and Contemporary History, and the leader of its doctoral program. She received her PhD in 1999 at the humanities faculty of the József Attila University of Science. She applied successfully for several grants including the Bólyai-Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Science. She is also a member of the Academy’s Committee on History.
Main Research Interests: The history of independent Latin-America, analysis of the Brazilian and Portuguese authoritarian systems, Portuguese-Brazilian relations in the 19th and 20th centuries, Hungarian immigration to Latin-America
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Magyarics, Tamás (PhD)
Búr, Gábor (PhD)
Email: bur.gabor@btk.elte.hu
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=7903
Gábor Búr is a habilitated associate professor of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Universal History. He graduated in Leningrad as an archeologist-historian, and joined the Hungarian AKP (African Research Program) immediately after his return. He conducted research in South Africa, and contributed to various books and publications related to the continent. He is a frequented speaker at African-themed events, and is also the editor in chief of the journal Afrikai Tanulmányok (African Research Papers).
Main Research Interests: The history of Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries, international relations of the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of England and the British Empire of the same time period, European colonization and colonial history of the same period
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Székely, Gábor (DSc.)
Email: szekelyg42@gmail.com
Website: http://szekelyg.atw.hu/
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=3424
Gábor Székely is a professor emeritus of ELTE’s Department of Modern and Contemporary History. He graduated a in history and Russian major at the Faculty of Humanities of our university, in 1966. He defended his doctoral dissertation in 1969, received his candidate’s degree in 1978, and academic doctorate in 1996. Between 2010 and 2013 he was the leader of the Doctoral School of History.
Main Research Interests: The history of international organizations and movements in the 19th and 20th centuries, modern political ideologies, the history of fascism, and of the Communist International. He did thorough research concerning the genesis of German Nazism and Italian fascism. He also studied peace organizations and movements between the two world wars, along with particular topics of the United States, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, the USSR, Spain, and smaller nations like the Netherlands and Belgium.
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Andreides, Gábor (PhD)
Email: andreidesgabor@gmail.com
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=12129
Gábor Andreides is a research fellow of the Office of the National Institute of Remembrance. He graduated in history and Italian major at the humanities faculty of PPKE, and received his doctorate at ELTE in 2008. He is a member of the Hungarian division of the Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano, situated in Rome.
Main Research Interests: The 20th century history of Italy, the political history of fascism and democratic Italy, its social problems, the connection of mafia and politics, the previous century of Italian-Hungarian relations.
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Maruzsa, Zoltán Viktor (PhD)
Email: maruzsaz@elte.hu
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=7594
Dr. Zoltán Maruzsa is a lecturer at our department, but is currently active as the Deputy State Secretary responsible for Public Education. He graduated in 2001 at the Eötvös Loránd University of Science Faculty of Humanities as a politologist, but also has a diploma of German and History. Outside of teaching at the department he also worked at the Ministry of Human Capacities and the Office of Education.
Main Research Interests: He is most concerned with the history of the Cold War, with the German question, the history of Austria and especially its neutrality. In general terms he studies the universal history of the 20th century.
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Zalai, Anita (PhD)
Email: zalaia@jgypk.u-szeged.hu
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=5982&popup=1
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Romsics Gergely (PhD)
Rákóczi , István (PhD)
Email: rakoczi.istvan@btk.elte.hu
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=7211
István Rákóczi is the director of the Department of Portuguese Studies at the Eötvös Loránd University of Science. He habilitated in Pécs in the year 2006. He has been lecturing at ELTE since 1981. His first opportunity to join the international scientific community arose in 1989, when he took part in the colloquium of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences and the Gulbenkian Foundation’s Paris Cultural Center, on the recommendation of professor Kálmán Benda. During this conference he delivered his first international lecture to researchers from over 20 nations on the Portuguese discoveries and their European projections, which resulted in his regular invitation to most international conferences of the past years in Lusitanian studies.
Main Research Interests: Hungarian-Portuguese literary and historical relations, Luso-Brazilian culture, visual studies, Iberian colonization, history of European expansion
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Horváth, Emőke (PhD)
Email: hor11775@t-online.hu
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=27635
Emőke Horváth is an associate professor at the Institute of History in the University of Miskolc. She earned her PhD in history at ELTE’s Faculty of Humanities in 1997. She is the leader of the American Studies Research Group, founded in 2015 at the University of Miskolc. She is also an inaugural member of the Hungarian professional community concerned with the interdisciplinary research of the Carribbean region, and a member of the Latin-American Research Group of KRE.
Main Research Interests: The history of the Cuban revolution, the relations of church and state, the relations of the U.S. and Cuba, the history of Hungarian-Cuban diplomatic relations, the Carribbean region in the 20th century, Hungarian-Cuban and general Hungarian-Latin-American diplomatic relations in the years of the Cold War
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Szabó, Éva Eszter (PhD)
Email: evaeszter@t-email.hu
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=11216
Éva Eszter Szabó has been a senior lecturer of the Department of American Studies since 2007. She graduated in 1994 as a philologist of Spanish studies and pedagogy, and as a philologist of American studies and language pedagogy in 1995. As a post-doctoral research fellow she worked at our university’s Institute of English and American Studies, and used to be an associate professor at the University of Szombathely.
Main Research Interests: She studies the history of United States after the Cold War, along with ethnic minorities (Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians) of the region. Her field of research includes international migration, with special attention to the correlations of domestic immigration policy and foreign policy. She also researches Inter-American, hemispheric relations.
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Byrappa Ramachandra (PhD)
Email: byrappa.ramachandra@btk.elte.hu
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=13344
Ramachandra Byrappa left India at an early age to pursue his studies in Western Europe. He won scholarships to study in France and later completed his A-levels in Oxford. With a keen interest for international relations he moved to the University of Kent to do his BA. After a brief study of economics at the University of Düsseldorf he moved to the prestigious Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Science Po’) in Paris where he completed a Master’s Degree in Economics and Finance. After occupying various management positions, he returned to the academic world by attaining a PhD at the Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) in 2014, and soon after started teaching contemporary Asian History and Geopolitics at the same establishment.
Main academic interests: ‘Southernization’ and ‘Civilizational and Spheric Integration’.
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Nagy, Marcel (PhD)
Email: nagymarcel@gmail.com
Website: http://www.nagymarcel.com
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=27634
Marcel Nagy is the Hungarian reporter of EFE. He received his doctorate in Szeged, in 2004. While he’s a full-time journalist he frequently participates in local and international scientific forums concerning Latin-American studies. He continually performs scientific research, publishes, and delivers lectures either as a teacher or as guest lecturer, earning experience from various places of the Hungarian higher education (SZTE, KRE, ELTE, PPKE). Alongside Hungarian he also considers Spanish as his vernacular.
Main Research Interests: The modern history of Latin-America, especially Mexico and Uruguay, Mexican conservativism and the related problematic ideational history. He possesses valuable personal experience in the Latin-American reality as he worked in Mexico in 1998 and 2001 for a semester each by research scholarship, and has been visiting ever since, mostly Uruguay.
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Deceased Professors
Frank, Tibor (MHAS) - (1948-2022)
Tibor Frank was a historian of the modern and contemporary era, a professor of ELTE’s Department of American Studies from 1997. He was the director of the university’s Institute of English and American Studies between 1994 and 2001, and between 2006 and 2014. He was the head of the American studies PhD program from 2000. He was a doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Science since 1998, and a member since 2019. He was the leader of the Academy’s Committee on History from 2017. He was a professor emeritus from 2018. His books and research papers have been published in 11 countries.
Main Research Interests: Transatlantic and European relations, immigration and emigration history, the “racial” question, overlapping national histories, image-building and propaganda
Pál, István (PhD)
Email: stevepal@freemail.hu
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=24004
István Pál is a senior lecturer at the Department of Modern and Contemporary Universal History of ELTE’s Faculty of Humanities. He received his doctorate at ELTE in 2009. Since 2004 he has been a member of the Britannia Circle, and a member of the Hungarian Historical Society since 2013. He is continually researching and publishes frequently. Expanding his original field of research he co-authored a book entitled “A budapesti közlekedés fejlesztése a politika napirendjén 1957-1990” (Improvement of the transportation of Budapest on the political agenda between 1957 and 1990), published in 2017.
Main Research Interests: The 20th century history of the United States and the United Kingdom, the history of British and American secret services, the history of Hungarian intelligence gathering between 1945 and 1990, the contribution of state security organizations to foreign policy.
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Kovács, Nóra (PhD)
Email: kovacs.nora@tk.mta.hu
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Juhász, Balázs (PhD)
Email: juhasz.balazs@btk.elte.hu
Doctoral Profile: https://doktori.hu/index.php?menuid=192&lang=HU&sz_ID=35825&popup=1
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