Enrolled PhD Students

Current Doctoral Students profile

2016/2017

László Bence Bari
Defended: 2023
Thesis title: (Trans)national Concepts of Self-Determination and the Future of Central Europe in the Late First World War, 1917–1918
Supervisor: Balázs Trencsényi

Ágnes Kende
doctoral candidate - doktorandusz
Thesis title: Memories of Stone: The Politics of Holocaust Remembrance in Hungary and Germany, 1980-2014
Supervisor: Constantin Iordachi

Vilius Kubekas
Defended: 2023
Thesis title: The Quest for Unity in a Time of Crisis: Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenges of Political Modernity in Interwar Lithuania 
Supervisor: Balázs Trencsényi

Nikola Ludlova
doctoral candidate - doktorandusz
Thesis title: Social Engineering in Socialist Czechoslovakia. Biopolitics as a Tool of Transforming and Controlling Gypsy Subjects
Supervisor: Alfred Rieber

Filip Lyapov
doctoral candidate - doktorandusz
Thesis title: The Crown's Thorns: Balkan Dictatorship and the Army
Supervisor: Constantin Iordachi

Riikkamari Muhonen
Defended: 2022
Thesis title: ’Good friends’ for the Soviet Union: The Peoples’ Friendship University in Soviet Educational Cooperation with the Developing World, 1960-1980
Supervisor: Alfred Rieber

Anastasia Papushina
doctoral candidate - doktorandusz
Thesis title: Concepts of Death and Suffering in Revolutionary Festivals: Comparing the Experience of French and Russian Revolution
Supervisor: Marsha Siefert

2015/2016

Aliaksandr Bystryk
doctoral candidate - doktorandusz
Thesis title: From Poets to Statesmen: Transformation of the Belarusian National Movement in the Time of the European Crisis (1914-1921).
Supervisor: Alexei Miller

Georgi Georgiev
doctoral candidate - doktorandusz
Thesis title: Feedback from the Secret Radio: Comparative History of Gathering Information under Cold War Constraints
Supervisor: Constantin Iordachi

Iva Jelusic
Defended: 2022
Thesis title: Gender and War in the Yugoslav Media: the Figure of the Partizanka in the Making of the Yugoslav New Woman 
Supervisor: Constantin Iordachi

Lovro Kralj
Defended: 2023
Thesis title: Paving the Road to the Holocaust in the NDH: Antisemitism in the Ustaša Movement,1930-1945
Supervisor: Constantin Iordachi

Réka Krizmanics
Defended: 2020
Thesis title: Fruitful Inconsistencies: Historical Knowledge Production in Late Socialist Hungary and Croatia
Supervisor: Balázs Trencsényi

Nikola Pantić
Defended: 2021
Thesis title:  Networks of the Holy: Religion and Magic in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Province of Damascus
Supervisor: Aziz Alazmeh

Blasco Sciarrino
Defended: 2022
Thesis title: Allegiance in Exchange for Rewards: Italian and Romanian First World War Veterans’ Movements in Comparison, 1918-1945 
Supervisor: Constantin Iordachi

2014/2015

Imogen Bayley
Defended: 2020
Thesis title: Fighting for a Future: Postwar Migration Policy and the Displaced of the British Zone (1945-1951)
Supervisor: Carsten L. Wilke

Alexandra Medzibrodszky
Defended: 2020
Thesis title: Orthodox Political Theologies: Clergy, Intelligentsia and Social Christianity in Revolutionary Russia
Supervisor: Matthias Riedl

Marko Miljkovic
Defended: 2021
Thesis title: Tito's Proliferation Puzzle - The Yugoslav Nuclear Program, 1948-1970
Supervisor: Marsha Siefert

Agne Rimkute
Defended: 2021
Thesis title: Selling culture in a socialist state: Film Screening, Ideology, and the Plan in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (1956 - 1972)
Supervisor: Marsha Siefert

Nicholas Warmuth
Defended: 2022
Thesis title: The American War Crimes Trial of Flossenburg Concentration Camp, 1946-1947
Supervisor: Constantin Iordachi

2013/2014

Ahmet Bilaloglu
doctoral candidate - doktorandusz
Thesis title: The "Enlightened" Ottomans: Bookish Innovations and Intellectual Investments in the Long Eighteenth Century
Supervisor:
Tolga U. Esmer
Nadia Al-Bagdadi

Matyas Erdélyi
Defended: 2019
Thesis title: Experts in the Bureau: Private Clerks and Capitalism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Supervisor:
Susan Zimmermann
Karl Hall

Adela-Gabriela Hincu
Defended: 2019
Thesis title: Accounting for the “Social” in State Socialist Romania, 1960s–1980s: Context and Genealogies
Supervisor: Balázs Trencsényi

Ádám Mézes
Defended: 2020
Thesis title: Doubt and Diagnosis: Medical Experts and the Returning Dead of the Southern Habsburg Borderland (1718-1766)
Supervisor: László Kontler

Katalin Pataki
Defended: 2020
Thesis title: Resources, Records, Reforms: The Implementation of Monastic Policies in the Kingdom of Hungary under Maria Theresa and Joseph II
Supervisor: László Kontler

Martin Pjecha
Defended: 2022
Thesis title: Theo-politics of the Hussite movement: from Reform to Revolution 
Supervisor: Matthias Riedl

2012/2013

Tadas Janusauskas
doctoral candidate - doktorandusz
Thesis title: Meeting Points of Jews and Lithuanians during the interwar period:alliances and clashes

Yuriy Koshulap
doctoral candidate - doktorandusz
Thesis title: Confessional Nationalism and Unification Policies of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky in the Interwar Galicia
Supervisor: Matthias Riedl

Dejan Lukic
Defended: 2019
Thesis title: A Strong Class of Serious Scholars: The Power Dynamics of Knowledge Production in the Earth Sciences in Serbia, 1880-1914
Supervisor: Karl Hall

Mladen Medved
Defended: 2019
Thesis title: Transition to Capitalism in Croatia, Hungary and Austria (1830s-1867/8): A Study in Uneven and Combined Development
Supervisor: Susan Zimmermann

Andriy Posunko
Defended: 2018
Thesis title: The Ambiguities of Cossackdom: The Case of the Pontic Steppe, 1775-1830s 
Supervisor: Alfred J. Rieber

Anna Sugiyama
doctoral candidate - doktorandusz
Thesis title: Rethinking Institutions: Imperatives of Underground Seminars in the Late Socialist Czechoslovakia and Poland (1970-80s: Podzemni univerzita, uniwersytet latajacy)
Supervisor: Karl Hall

Aniello Verde
doctoral candidate - doktorandusz
Thesis title: The Italian "third way": strategy and rhetoric of the democratic alternative, 1980-1989
Supervisor: Marsha Siefert

2011/2012

Mihai-Dan Cirjan
doctoral candidate - doktorandusz
Thesis title: Peasant Indebtedness and Credit Relations in the aftermath of the Great Depression: Reinventing the State by Governing Economic Life in Post-liberal Romania (1931-1942)
Supervisor: Balázs Trencsényi

Oskar Mulej
Defended: 2018
Thesis title: Interwar Perspectives on Liberalism in Central Europe: the Czech, Austrian and Slovene National Liberal Heirs, 1918-1934
Supervisor: Maciej Janowski

2010/2011

Eda Guclu
Defended. 2018
Thesis title: Urban Tanzimat, Morality, and Property in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul 
Supervisor: Tolga U. Esmer

2009/2010

Piotr Wcislik
Defended: 2018
Thesis title: License: The Prefigurative Politics of Polish Dissident Social Media Activism, 1976-1990
Supervisor: Balázs Trencsényi