Doctoral Defenses

Defense dateThesis authorThesis TitleThesis supervisor
13 September 2018Andriy PosunkoThe Ambiguities of Cossackdom: The Case of the Pontic Steppe, 1775-1830sAlfred J. Rieber
4 May 2018Piotr WcislikLicense: The Prefigurative Politics of Polish Dissident Social Media Activism, 1976-1990Balázs Trencsényi
27 April 2018Oskar MulejInterwar Perspectives on Liberalism in Central Europe: the Czech, Austrian and Slovene National Liberal Heirs, 1918-1934Maciej Janowski
17 March 2017Liliana IugaReshaping the Historic City under Socialism: State Preservation, Urban Planning, and the Politics of Scarcity in Romania (1945-1977)Constantin Iordachi
16 March 2017Adrian GramaLaboring Along: Industrial Workers and the Making of Postwar Romania (1944-1955)Marsha Siefert
18 January 2017Francesco La RoccaWriters of Tales: A Study on National Literary Epic Poetry with a Comparative Analysis of the Albanian and South Slavic CasesGyörgy Szőnyi
18 January 2017Dora IvaniševićEpitaphic Culture and Social History in Late Antique Salona (ca. 250 – 600 C.E.)Volker Menze
12 June 2015Anna MazanikSanitation, Urban Environment and the Politics of Public Health in Late Imperial MoscowAlexei Miller
31 March 2015Zsofia Lorand“Learning a Feminist Language”: The Intellectual History of Feminism in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s
18 March 2015Emily Gioielli‘White Misrule’: Terror and Political Violence during Hungary’s Long World War I, 1919-1924Susan Zimmermann
30 October 2014Uku LemberSilenced Ethnicity: Russian-Estonian Intermarriages in Soviet Estonia (Oral History)Marsha Siefert
24 February 2014Cristian DanielCoping with the Powerful Other: A Comparative Approach to Greek-Slavonic Communities of Rite in Late Medieval Transylvania and the BanatNiels Gaul
29 April 2013Katalin StranerScience, Translation and the Public: The Hungarian Reception of Darwinism, 1858-1875Karl Hall
5 February 2013Livia SzelpalA Tale of Two Hungarian Cities: The Making and Reading of Modern Debrecen and Szeged, 1850-1914Judit Bodnár
23 September 2011Adam Mestyan“A garden with mellow fruits of refinement” - Music Theatres and Cultural Politics in Cairo and Istanbul, 1867-1892Marsha Siefert
15 June 2011Maria FalinaPublic Defense of the Doctoral Thesis by Maria Falina: “Pyrrhic Victory: East Orthodox Christianity, Politics and Serbian Nationalism in the Interwar Period ”Balázs Trencsényi
11 December 2009Marioara-Camelia CraciunBetween Marginal Rebels and Mainstream Critics: Jewish Romanian Intellectuals in the Interwar PeriodAndras Kovacs