Faculty and Staff

Yusaf Akbar joined the CEU Business School as an associate professor of Management and International Business in 2006.

Yusaf has taught at universities and business schools all over the world, including University of Michigan, Stockholm School of Economics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Queen’s University, Canada, European Business School, London, ISM Paris, University of Warsaw and University of Montenegro. His main research interests are international trade and investment, management development in Central and East Europe, and non-market strategies of emerging-market multinationals.

Current research projects focus on market escalation of small entrepreneurial firms in emerging markets and conceptual boundaries and relationships between different forms of innovation i.e. social innovation, disruptive and reverse innovation.

He has also recently authored case studies on Zwack Unicum (with CEU Alumna Ilona Polyak), Datwyler (with CEU Alumnus Pieter Coppens), Vienna International Airport and the Hummus Bar.

He is Founding Editor of the International Journal of Emerging Markets and sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Management. He has published in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of World Business, Business and Politics, Global Governance, Global Business and Organizational Excellence, Thunderbird International Business Review and World Competition.

Prior to joining CEU faculty, Brandon Anthony worked as advisor to the Hungarian Nature Conservation Institute, as a park supervisor/biologist with the Otonabee Regional Conservation Authority (Canada), and as an agricultural habitat biologist with the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (Canada). He has conducted research on nature conservation, protected area management, and community livelihoods in Canada, South Africa, Malawi, Ghana, Russia, Romania and Hungary.

Alexander Astrov received his PhD from The department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research is situated at the intersection of International Relations Theory and Political Theory, focussing mainly on the ideas of order and politics. He published two monographs on the subject and edited a volume exploring the idea of ‘great power management’ as it appears in the writings of the English School of International Relations and contemporary state-practices.

Alexander Astrov is on sabbatical leave in the 2012/13 academic year.

Andrzej Baniak is an associate professor in the Department of Economics of Central European University. His research interests are in law and economics, institutional economics and microeconomic theory. His current research focuses on welfare level of the institutional harmonization, vagueness of law, and the relationship between social norms and law. Andrzej received his Ph.D. from European University Institute in Florence in 1996. He also holds an M.A. from Central European University (1992). Before coming to CEU, he worked at the University of Liverpool, and in Wroclaw University of Economics.

Károly Bárd is professor, chair of the Human Rights Program and co-director (with Renáta Uitz) of the clinical specialization at CEU Legal Studies Department. He started his career at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Between 1990 and 1997 he served as vice-minister and later as deputy state secretary in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Hungary.

Robin has been teaching academic writing for graduate students at CEU since 1999, and has also taught undergraduate academic writing at Corvinus University, Budapest, since 2004. Prior to coming to Budapest, he lived and worked in Spain, Portugal, Hong Kong, and Colombia. At CEU Robin works with the Legal Studies, IRES, History and Nationalism departments. Robin has delivered outreach courses on academic writing for masters, PhD students or professional researchers at the Hungarian Central bank and in other countries such as Lithuania, Estonia, Holland, and training for junior faculty and PhD students in Russia and FR of Yugoslavia. Robin represents the CEU and the Centre for Academic Writing in the FIESOLE Group. His interest, apart from academic writing, is teacher training. His hobbies include sports and games of all types but he now has two young children.

Gábor Betegh is professor at the Philosophy Department of the Central European University. He studied at Eötvös University in Budapest, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and at the University of Cambridge. He works on ancient philosophy, in particular on ancient metaphysics, cosmology and theology.

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György Bőgel is professor of business management, and teaches courses on organizational behavior, outsourcing and entrepreneurship. He also participates in many projects at the school’s executive education unit. His main research interest is the influence of technological development on management structures and processes.

András Bozóki received his PhD in political science from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1992. His research interest includes democratization, political ideas, Central European politics, elites, public discourse, cultural policy and the role of intellectuals. He has served as president of the Hungarian Political Science Association, and as member of the executive board of the European Confederation of Political Science Associations (ECPSA). He was a founding editor of the Hungarian Political Science Review (1992-99). He is author of six, co-author of eight books, and editor/co-editor of several others. He was visiting professor at Columbia University (2004, 2009), Bologna University (2008), and Smith College (1999-2000). He was Mellon fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (1993-4), Jean Monnet fellow (2000-1), and Fernand Braudel fellow (2012) at the European University Institute in Florence. In 1989, he participated in the Hungarian roundtable talks; in 2005-6, he served as Minister of Culture of Hungary.

Alessia Campolmi is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics of Central European University and a researcher at the Magyar Nemzeti Bank (The Central Bank of Hungary). Her research interests are monetary and fiscal policy with particular emphasis on their international aspects and their interactions with labor market frictions. Alessia holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2008).

Andrew Cartwright works at the Center for Policy Studies.  His research concentrates on social and economic development in rural areas, especially former socialist ones.  His PhD was on implementing land reform in Romania.  At the Department of Public Policy, he teaches Rural Development Policy and runs the Policy Labs course.

Professor Allaine Cerwonka does interdisciplinary research on a diverse range of topics. Her first book is titled, Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia (University of Minnesota Press: Borderlines series). It is an ethnographic analysis of the construction of the nation (using race, gender, and geography as her principle analytical axes) through everyday place-making practices. Her second book, Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork, explores the use of ethnographic methods for interdisciplinary research and for developing theoretical claims, (University of Chicago Press, co-authored with Liisa Malkki). Her work on feminist knowledge production and traveling feminist thought in the region has appeared in journals such as SIGNS and Cultural Studies; and she has taught a course on intimacy. Her more recent work crosses the more dramatic divide between the social sciences and humanities on the one side and the natural sciences on the other. Through her work and teaching on the human and posthuman, she engages with early Enlightenment science (especially the links between the natural sciences, taxonomy, and European imperialism). She also works with theories of biopower and posthumanism (in relation to biocapitalism, postgender, cyborgs, the animal, and biopolitics).

Socio-cultural aspects of past human-animal interactions.
Material Culture Studies
Environmentt and bio-archaeology (archaeozoology)
MAD (Medieval Animal Data-networks) : an international project dedicated to the idea of integrating data from textual, visual and archaeozoological sources on animals in medieval life.

László CSABA is professor of international political economy at Central European University and Corvinus University of Budapest, as well as Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Author of 11 books, editor of 6 volumes, as well as 330 articles and chapters in books published in 22 countries. In 1999-2000 President of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies. On the editorial board of 9 international and 5 Hungarian academic journals.His academic work invited over 123 reviews and 1765 independent citations internationally. His recent output includes the books: Crisis in Economics?/2009 and The New Political Economy of Emerging Europe-2d revised edition/2007, both Akadémiai/W.Kluwer, as well as the chapters:’Enlargement of the EU’ in: TURLEY,G.- HARE,P.G.eds: Routledge Handbook on Transition. London: Taylor and Francis, 2012 and ’ Hungary: the Janus-faced success story of transition’ in: FOSU,A.ed: Developmental Success: Historical Accounts from More Advanced Countries’, Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp254-276. For more info cf his personal web: www.csabal.com

Francisca de Haan’s research interests center on transnational history, European social and political history and European women’s and gender history since 1800, comparative history of inter/transnational women’s movements, left-wing women’s political activism, women’s work, and women’s archives.

De Haan’s current research focuses on the entangled histories of the three largest international women’s organizations during the Cold War. In addition, she is preparing an edited collection, together with Myriam Everard, about the internationalist feminist and peace activist, Rosa Manus and the broader context she was working in during the interwar period.
De Haan has (co-)edited 11 volumes, including the Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe; Women’s Activism: Global Perspectives from the 1890s to the Present (forthcoming with Routledge); and six volumes of the international, peer-reviewed yearbook Aspasia, of which she is founding editor. Her articles have appeared in journals such as the Dutch-Belgium Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis (Journal of Social History), Feministische Studien, the Journal of Women’s History, and the Women’s History Review.
She has received a number of prizes and fellowships, including a Study-Prize of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for her PhD (1992), and most recently the John E. Sayer Fellowship at the National Humanities Center in NC, USA, endowed by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2008-2009). From 2005 to 2010 she served as Vice-President of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History.
Her MA courses include Foundations in Gender Studies I: Histories, Theories, Futures; Women's Movements Worldwide; and Women and/in the United Nations.

Nenad Dimitrijevic is a professor at the CEU Political Science Department. He received his BA diploma (1978), MA (1983), and PhD in constitutional law (1986) from University of Novi Sad, School of Law. His research interests include constitutional theory (constitutional design, post-communist constitutionalism, minority rights, constitutional patriotism), and political theory (political legitimacy, transformative justice).

Helga is an educational researcher (Ph.D. in Educational Science) working with faculty and doctoral students across the University, especially on technology-supported teaching and research projects.

John S. Earle received his PhD in economics from Stanford University and has taught at CEU every year since the founding of the Economics Department in 1991. He has served as department head (1993-1995), director of the PhD program (2003-2006), and director of the CEU Labor Project (since 1994), an externally funded unit of the university carrying out research on labor economics, firm performance, and industry dynamics. The Project has produced more than 30 publications in academic journals, trained many MA and PhD students over the years, and collaborated on projects with partners ranging from the World Bank, USAID, EU Framework Programmes, COST, and OECD to several governments of the region. Professor Earle is also Professor at the School of Public Policy of George Mason University and an affiliated researcher with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn. He is President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, the largest association of economists world-wide working on issues of institutions, political economy, and international comparisons.

Zsolt Enyedi received four M.A.’s in comparative social sciences, history, sociology and political science (from the University of Amsterdam, ELTE University, and Central European University) and a PhD in political science (from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). The focus of his research interests is on party politics, comparative government, church and state relations, and political psychology (especially authoritarianism, prejudices and political tolerance). He published more than fifty articles and book chapters, and (co)authored two and coedited three volumes on these topics.

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Thomas Fetzer joined the IRES department in December 2009. He received his Ph D from the Department of History at the European University Institute Florence in October 2005 with a thesis on British and German trade union politics at Ford and General Motors since the late 1960s. In 2006 he was a visiting fellow at the Max-Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Cologne and taught in several programs of US-based universities in Florence. In 2007 and 2008 Thomas was a Marie Curie post-doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics, and in 2009 he was Assistant Professor for Industrial Relations at the University of Warwick and also Visiting Lecturer at CEU.

Alex Fischer served as full-time faculty member at the Department of Public Policy from 2005 until 2007. Currently he works as a political advisor for  WWF Switzerland  and in addition, he kept his affiliation with CEU as Associate Professor.

Attila Folsz received his Ph.D. in International Relations and European Studies from the Budapest University of Economics. He is a political economist, specialized in post-communist transition and the EU, with a special focus on enlargement and monetary unification.

Réka teaches writing in the Departments of Public Policy, International Relations, Philosophy, and Legal Studies. Prior to joining CEU in 2005, she worked at the Applied Linguistics Department at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, teaching academic writing. Réka is currently completing her PhD at Eötvös Loránd University and holds an MA in English and Latin Language and Linguistics. Her research interests include higher education research and writing research, particularly discourse analysis.

Byzantine history, c.600–1500;
Byzantine rhetoric;
Byzantine manuscript studies & Greek palaeography

György Gergely has done his graduate studies in psychology at University College London and Columbia University where he received his PhD in experimental psycholinguistics. He has also earned a second PhD in Clinical Child Psychology from the HIETE University, Budapest. His main research interests are: Social and cognitive development and cultural learning in infancy and early childhood, action understanding, theory of mind, and developmental psychopathology. He has published books and papers in three broad areas of research and theory: a) cognitive science, b) cognitive and socio-emotional development, and c) clinical and psychoanalytic developmental theory, and developmental psychopathology.

Andreas Goldthau is Head of the Department of Public Policy. His academic career includes stints with the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, the RAND Corporation, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) and the Institute for East European Studies at Freie University of Berlin. He is also a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute (Berlin/ Geneva) and and an Adjunct Professor with Johns Hopkins University’s MSc in Energy Policy and Climate.

Béla Greskovits is professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies, and Department of Political Science, at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. His research interests are the political economy of East-Central European capitalism, comparative economic development, social movements, and democratization. His most recent articles appeared in Studies in Comparative and International Development, Labor History, Orbis, West European Politics, Competition and Change, Journal of Democracy, and European Journal of Sociology. He has recently had a book dealing with capitalist diversity on Europe’s periphery, written together with Dorothee Bohle, published by Cornell University Press.

Karl Hall joined the History Department in 2003, where he teaches courses on Central and East European intellectual history. Trained at Harvard University as a historian of science, he has written primarily about Soviet physics. His research interests include industrial laboratories, intellectual property, and tacit knowledge; post-1945 transformations of East European scientific institutions; Western scientists as anthropologists and critics of the Soviet experiment; the history of the race concept in imperial Russia. Hall has held fellowships at the Dibner Institute (MIT) and the Max Planck Institute for History of Science (Berlin).
On leave from January till July 2013.

John joined the Center for Academic Writing as Director in 1998. He currently works mainly with students of Public Policy, International Relations and Economics. He has also been involved as a consultant for writing programs and centers in various countries in the region. His principal research interest is in policy issues related to teaching writing in English or in other languages. Prior to joining CEU he worked in various countries of Central and Eastern, including the Baltic States, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, but also in Germany, China, Finland and Turkey.

Peter Hardi has been a professor of business ethics and corporate social responsibility at the CEU Business School and the Director of the Center for Business and Society since joining the faculty in 2006. His current research focuses on the role of business in society and the interaction with major social partners and on the linkage between resource management and social outcomes, particularly the efficiency and sustainability of resource use in CEE and Central Asia. As director of the Center for Business and Society, Hardi heads several research projects dealing with corporate ethics and sustainable business practices.

Christophe Heintz is working on cultural evolution and cognition in the domains of the history of science and behavioural economics.
He studied mathematics and philosophy at the universities of Paris (Sorbonne and Diderot) and Cambridge. He worked for his Ph.D. at the Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Before coming to CEU, he was a research fellow at the KLI for Evolution and Cognition Research in Vienna.

Julius Horvath is Professor at the CEU from 2005, and Hungarian University Professor from 2009. He is a former Head of Department of Economics (2006-2011) and Department of IRES (2002-2006) at the Central European University. His main interest lies in international economic policy issues, political economy of monetary relations, and history of economic thought. He has published in several journals as Journal of Comparative Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy, Applied Economics, Economic Systems, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Journal of Economic Integration, Nationalities Papers. He is a Member of the Slovak and Czech Accreditation Committees.

Ferenc Huoranszki is professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Central European University. His interests include metaphysics and the philosophy of action, particularly the questions of free will, causation, modality, and 18th century metaphysics and ethics.

Erin K. Jenne is an associate professor at the International Relations and European Studies Department at Central European University in Budapest, where she teaches MA and PhD courses on qualitative and quantitative methods, ethnic conflict management, international relations theory, nationalism and civil war, and international security. Jenne received her PhD in political science from Stanford University with concentrations in comparative politics, international relations, conflict processes, and East European politics. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a MacArthur fellowship at Stanford University, a Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) fellowship at Harvard University, a Carnegie Corporation scholarship, and a Fernand Braudel fellowship at European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Her recent book, Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment (Cornell University Press, 2007) is the winner of Mershon Center’s Edgar S. Furniss Book Award in 2007 and was also named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Magazine. The book is based on her dissertation, which won the Seymour Martin Lipset Award for Best Comparativist Dissertation in 2001. She has published numerous book chapters and articles in International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, Regional and Federal Studies, Journal of Peace Research, Civil Wars, and Ethnopolitics (forthcoming). She is an associate editor for Foreign Policy Analysis and has served in several capacities on the Emigration, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the International Studies Association and the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

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On leave Winter, Spring 2013

Achim Kemmerling is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Public Policy, Central European University Budapest where he teaches courses on methodology, political economy and development. He has published in academic journals of various disciplines (e.g. Public Choice, JEPP, EUP, and JCMS) on issues of tax policy, social and labor market policies, and fiscal federalism. His monograph "Taxing the Working Poor" (Edward Elgar 2009) deals with the political and economic tradeoffs between redistribution and job incentives for poor workers. He has worked as a consultant to the German parliament, the German Society for Technical Cooperation (former GTZ, now GIZ) and the European Investment Bank.

Gábor Kézdi is Associate Professor at Central European University (CEU) and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (IEHAS). He received his Ph. D. from the University of Michigan in 2003 and joined the CEU faculty in 2004. His research interests include labor economics (especially human capital formation), other areas of applied microeconomics (especially household behavior under uncertainty), applied cross-sectional and panel econometrics, and program evaluation.

Andrea teaches academic writing in the Departments of Gender Studies, Philosophy, Medieval Studies, History, Nationalism and Legal Studies. Since she joined the Writing Center in 2004, she has been involved in various outreach projects, teaching writing courses for Hungarian universities and the Hungarian National Bank as well as delivering research writing workshops for the Max Planck Institute in Germany and France. Andrea holds an MA in English and German Language, Literature and Teaching and a PhD in Postmodern English Literature and Culture from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Her work has appeared in the Neo-Victorian Studies Journal, The AnaChronist and Holmi. Andrea will be on maternity leave from September 2012.

Maciej Kisilowski is an assistant professor of Law and Public Management and Co-Director of Initiative for Regulatory Innovation research center. Prior to joining CEU, he taught at Yale University and at Warsaw University College of Technology and Business. He holds a doctorate in legal science (JSD) from Yale Law School (where he has also earned a master's in law or LLM), another PhD from Warsaw University, an M.P.A. in economics and public policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD. He has consulted for numerous public and nonprofit organizations, including the Secretariat-General of the European Commission, Committee for Economic Development (Washington DC), and the Offices of the President and the Prime Minister of Poland. His research interests include the theory of regulation and public management.

Günther received his PhD in Cognitive Science from Hamburg University in 1997. After a one-year stay at the University of Illinois at Chicago he became a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Wolfgang Prinz’s group in Munich. From 2004 to 2007 he was Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Rutgers University (US). Between 2007 and 2011 he held Chairs for Social Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology at the Psychology Department of Birmingham University (UK) and the Donders Centre for Cognition at Radboud University Nijmegen (NL). His diverse research interests include social perception, joint action, motor control, experience of agency, and problem solving. For more information on my research go to http://somby.hu

Bernadett Köles holds a Master as well as a Doctorate degree from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science with distinction from Indiana University, Bloomington IN. Her educational background is in the field of psychology, which she has applied to the areas of management, education, and governmental regulations. Bernadett has joined CEU Business School in 2003 as a faculty member, serves as the Co-Director for the Initiative for Regulatory Innovation Research Center, and has served as the Academic Director of the institution’s Undergraduate Programs. Her teaching portfolio includes courses in psychology, leadership, cultural assessments, and methodological topics. Her research encompasses a variety of cross cultural analyses in CEE and beyond, along with a strong focus concerning the impact of social media and virtual environments on education, business endeavors, and the field of social sciences. Bernadett has authored a number of articles, serves as a reviewer for several journals, and has developed a number of executive projects for international organizations.

Peter Kondor studies asset pricing with frictions, information and learning and delegated portfolio management. He was an assistant professor in Finance at the University of Chicago before joining the CEU. His research focuses liquidity fluctutations in asset markets, information and learning and delegated portfolio management. He is winner of the Smith Breeden First Prize for best paper in asset pricing in the Journal of Finance in 2009. He also has publications in the leading economics journals including the American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Studies. He is the member of the editorial boards of the Review of Economics Studies and the Journal of Finance. Kondor earned his master's degree in economics from the Central European University in 2002, and a PhD in finance from the London School of Economics in 2006.

Miklós Koren is an associate professor in the Department of Economics of Central European University and a research fellow at the Institute of Economics. His research interests are in international trade and economic growth. His current research focuses on the firm-level effects of imported inputs and imported machinery, the dynamics of export flows in disaggregate data, and the diversification of volatility across trading partners. 
Miklós holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University (2005) and an M.A. in Economics from CEU (2000)..

Professor at the Nationalism Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the Central European University, Hungary.

I completed my undergraduate studies in Psychology at the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca, Romania in 2000, followed by an MA degree from the same university in 2002. In 2008 May i have received a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, from SISSA, Trieste, Italy (Advisor Prof. Jacques Mehler). From 2007 till 2010 I was a Marie Curie research fellow in the DISCOS project at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and a research fellow at the CEU Cognitive Development Centre. Currently I am a research fellow at the CEU Cognitive Development Centre.

Andrea Krizsan is Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies since 2001. Her main research interests include equality policy, the politics of violence against women, policy change in Central and Eastern Europe and the role of non-conventional policy actors. She teaches Politics of Gender based Violence and Comparative Equality Policy.

Sanjay Kumar teaches Academic Writing in the Departments of Gender Studies, Public Policy, Environmental Science and Policy and Legal Studies. He joined the Centre for Academic Writing in August, 2010. He was awarded PhD in English Language and Literature from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi in 2010. He has more than ten years of teaching experience in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in technical universities and Business schools in India like the Indian Institute of Management (IIM). Prior to joining CEU, he taught in Selye Janos University, Slovakia and International Business School(IBS)), Budapest.

Michael LaBelle is an assistant professor at the Central European University Business School and in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy. He teaches courses on business sustainability, innovation and energy policy. He conducts research on how institutions and organizations foster change to contribute to a low carbon future. Currently his research concentrates on international regulatory networks, the shale gas revolution and innovation in the energy sector. Previous work assessed the efforts of institutions in the European Union to encourage the use of new low or zero carbon technologies in the energy sector, including energy efficiency measures. Much of his research involves issues of risk governance, with special attention paid to the sunk cost of energy investments. In addition, he has written peer reviewed articles and consulting publications on the strategic movement of energy firms and the regulatory environment in the Central Eastern European region.

Dr. LaBelle is a member of the Atlantic Council’s Emerging Leaders in Environmental and Energy Policy Network. Previously, he worked in the CEU Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP) and at the Regional Center for Energy Policy Research (REKK) at Corvinus University. He has worked on projects for the European Commission, United States Agency for International Development, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the Energy Regulators Regional Association and with energy consulting companies and European universities. He holds an MSc and PhD in Geographical Sciences from the University of Bristol.

Marvin Lazerson is professor of higher education policy in the Department of Public Policy, Central European University and professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania.  He holds A.B. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University in New York City and a PhD in history from Harvard University.  He is a widely published scholar in the ares of educational history, higher education, and social policy.  A member of the National Academy of Education (U.S.), he is past president of the History of Education Society.  He has taught at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of British Columbia, as well as the Penn, where he also served as dean of the Graduate School of Education and the university's interim provost.  In addition to teaching at CEU, he coordinates the higher education policy stream in the Department of Public Policy.

Levente (Levi) received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2006 where he also studied Survey Research and Methodology. He has held visiting positions in the US, Croatia and Hungary and taught a number of workshops on applied statistical topics. Predominantly a methodologist, Levi’s research strives to find new analytical strategies to complex problems in any field of science. Past research has included evolutionary game theory through agent based models and macro-comparative assessment of the relationship between corruption and democratic performance. Current work focuses on the genetics of social and political behavior. Active member of APSA, ISPP, Behavior Genetics Association and the International Society for Twin Studies. Levi also plays mandolin in a bluegrass group.

Jasmina Lukić, is an Associate Professor, Head Department of Gender Studies (since 2009) and the CEU coordinator for Erasmus Mundus MA Program in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies GEMMA (since 2005). She has been a co-founder and the editor in chief of the journal for feminist theory Ženske studije (Beograd 1996-1999) and an associate editor of The European Journal of Women’s Studies (1999-2009). She is a member of the editorial board of Aspasia International Yearbook on Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender history (since 2006)
Her research interests are in literary and cultural studies, and in South-Slavic literatures. She has published a number of articles and book chapters in English, Serbian and Croatian. Her publications include a collection of critical studies Drugo lice (The Other Face, Beograd 1984), and a monograph Metaproza: čitanje žanra (Metafiction: Reading the Genre, Beograd 2001). Together with Joanna Regulska and Darja Zavirsek she has edited a volume Women and Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe (2006). She has also edited a Special Issue of European Journal of Women’s Studies on Women, Identity, and Identification: “Who are I” (2003) and a Special Issue of European Journal of Women’s Studies on Writing across Borders (with Paola Bono, 2009).

Rosario N. Mantegna is professor at CEU in a joint appointment of the Department of Economics and the Center of Network Science. Besides Palermo University, where he holds a professorship, he worked at the MPI for Quantum Optics in Munich, and at Boston University. His research concerns interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics. He started to work in the area of the analysis and modeling of social and economic systems with tools and concepts of statistical physics as early as 1990 and he is one of the pioneers in the field of econophysics. He coauthored the first book on econophysics. Rosario participated in and/or coordinated several projects, including Marie Curie Host Fellowship, COST, EU STREP, INET and national ones. Rosario is also part of the Center for Network Science of CEU (http://www.ceu.hu/cns). Rosario received his PhD in physics from Palermo University in 1990.

Liviu Matei is CEU's Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and a professor in the Department of Public Policy. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bucharest. His professional career includes work as a consultant for UNESO, the Council of Europe, EU Commission, OSCE, European University Association, on issues concerning higher education and civil society; Co-chair of the Working Group on Higher Education of the Stability Pact for South-East Europe; Director General for International Relations, Romanian Ministry of Education; Lecturer, Babes-Bolyai University; Program Director, Médecins Sans Frontières, Program of Assistance to Underprivileged Roma Communities in Transylvania. Liviu Matei is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the European Higher Education Area, member of the Board of the International Higher Education Suport Program, and member of the GRE European Advisory Council.

Charles S. Mayer has been a Professor of International Marketing at the CEU for the past 10 years. He is also Professor Emeritus of Marketing at the Schulich School of Business, in Toronto Canada. He joined Schulich in 1969, where he established the International MBA program, and many exchange programs.
He has had broad international experience, having held major teaching posts in Germany, Ireland, Israel, Hungary, China, Japan, New Zealand, U.K. and U.S.A.

He holds a Ph.D. in Business from the University of Michigan, and M.B.A. and B.A.Sc. degrees fom the University of Toronto.

He is a past Vice President of the American Marketing Association, and of the Professional Marketing Research Society - the later electing him as a Fellow.

Mayer has consulted for major international companies such as Coca Cola, Unilever, P & G, and B.A.S.F.

Michael Merlingen is an Associate Professor. His current research interests lie in EU foreign, security and defence policy, historical materialism, Foucauldian IR and global biopolitics. His current teaching portfolio includes courses on IR theory (introductory and advanced) and EU foreign and security policy. Michael has published three books on the EU foreign and security policy. His papers on have appeared in journals such as Millennium; Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; Journal of Common Market Studies; International Political Sociology; Security Dialogue; Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen; and European Foreign Affairs Review. He is currently in charge of CEU’s contribution to a big FP-7 project, running from 2011-2013, that examines cultures of governance and conflict resolution in Europe and India. Michael welcomes inquiries from prospective PhD students wishing to work on issues having to do with his research interests.

Tamas Meszerics received his B.A., Dr. Univ. and Ph.D. in modern international history from Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. His major research interests include foreign policy analysis, the applications and limitations of rational choice models in political science, 20th century international history. He was visiting scholar at the Institute for International Studies, University of Leeds. He has been working at the department since its foundation.

Zoltan Miklosi received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from ELTE University, where he specialized in political and moral philosophy. His research areas concern questions of political obligation, distributive justice, and the problem of global justice. His current work focuses on the role of institutions in specifying the requirements of justice, and on how different distributive concerns regarding process and outcome may be integrated within a unified theory of distributive justice. His most recent publications include "Against the Principle of All Affected Interests," Social Theory and Practice, 2012, and "How Does the Difference Principle Make a Difference?" Res Publica 14:3 (2010).

Michael L. Miller is an associate professor in the Nationalism Studies program at Central European University in Budapest. He received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, where he specialized in Jewish and Central European History. His research focuses on the impact of nationality conflicts on the religious, cultural, and political development of Central European Jewry in the nineteenth century. He has recently published articles in Slavic Review, Austrian History Yearbook, Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook, and Múlt és Jövő. Miller’s book, Rabbis and Revolution: The Jews of Moravia in the Age of Emancipation, was just published by Stanford University Press.

Ph.D. (Moscow State University): Head of Department, Director of UNEP GEO Collaborating Center: State of the environment and pollution problems in the countries of the region; environmental policy; global environmental issues, sources of environmental information.

Peter Molnar is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University, a writer and activist, from 1990 to 1998 a member of the Hungarian Parliament, one of the drafters of the 1996 Hungarian media law, legislative advisor since 2002, has taught and lectured at numerous universities around the world since 1994. In 2007, the staged version of his novel, Searchers, won awards for best alternative play and best independent play in Hungary. He is co-editor of The Content and Context of Hate Speech - Rethinking Regulation and Responses, Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Professor at CEU since 2002, after previously holding positions at "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iasi (Romania) and University of Stuttgart (Germany). PhD earned in 1981 from "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, under the supervision of Professors Viorel Barbu and Adolf Haimovici. Author or co-author of 15 books and more than 100 research articles. Recipient (in 1983) of the "Gheorghe Lazar" Prize of the Romanian Academy, for contributions to the theory of hyperbolic partial differential equations. Since 2006 Egyetemi Tanár (University Professor), awarded by the President of Hungary.

Research Interests: Differential and Difference Equations, Calculus of Variations, Evolution Equations in Banach Spaces, Fluid Mechanics, Singular Perturbation Theory, Various Topics in Applied Mathematics.  

Boldizsár Nagy read law and philosophy and received his PhD at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and pursued international studies at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center. Besides the uninterrupted academic activity both at the Eötvös Loránd University (since 1977) and the Central European University (since 1992) he has been engaged both in governmental and non-governmental actions. He acted several times as expert for the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Council of Europe and UNHCR and participated at inter-governmental negotiations. In the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros case before the International Court of Justice he appeared as one of Hungary’s counsels. He is a co-founder and former board member of the European Society of International Law and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Refugee Law and of the European Journal of Migration and Law. He is also co-founder and editor of the on-line Rerugee Law Reader. His teaching venues include Beijing, Brussels, Geneva, Moscow, and New York. More than two dozens books were co-authored and/or edited by him. Further details, including a bibliography, are available at his webiste: www.nagyboldizsar.hu

Sejal Parmar joined the Legal Studies Department at CEU in August 2012. Her research and teaching lie broadly in the field of international human rights law. Her current research focuses on the recent approach of UN human rights bodies towards freedom of expression and its interplay with other rights such as equality and freedom of religion.

István Perczel earned his C.Sc. (=Ph.D.) degree in 1995 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Religious Studies. He has no other academic degree. He studied Greek with Prof. Judit Horváth in Budapest and, later, Syriac with Abouna Mushe Cicek in Jerusalem. He taught at CEU from 1994 but interrupted his teaching between 2004 and 2010, when he was, first conducting field work in India, collecting, digitising, cataloguing and assessing the manuscripts of the St Thomas Christians and, then, was doing research in Jerusalem, in the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University.

His research interests are: Patristics, Neoplatonist philosophy, Byzantine and Eastern Christian studies, Syriac manuscripts, history of Christianity in India.

 Andrea PETŐ is an associate professor at the Department of Gender Studies. She published three monographs in Hungarian, English, German and Bulgarian, edited twelve volumes in English, six volumes in Hungarian, two in Russian. Her works appeared in different languages, including Bulgarian, Croatian, English, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian and Serbian. She serves on the board of several journals in the field of women's history (Gender and History, Clio) and Contemporary European History. President of the gender and women’s history section of the Hungarian Historical Association and the Feminist Section of the Hungarian Sociological Association. She participated in different national and international research projects in the field of cultural history, European comparative gender and politics, Holocaust, memory studies, oral history, qualitative methods, social and gender history, women’s movements, WWII. She was awarded by President of the Hungarian Republic with the Officer’s Cross Order of Merit of The Republic of Hungary in 2005 and Bolyai Prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2006. She serves as co-president of AtGender.

Szabolcs Pogonyi is an Assistant Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at the Central European University.

Uwe Puetter is Professor at the Department of Public Policy and Director of the Center for European Union Research (CEUR). He holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Public Policy and Governance. His research interests are in the field of European Union policy-making. Here he focuses on intergovernmental decision-making in the European Council and the Council as well as the fields of economic, social and foreign policy. Uwe Puetter is teaching courses on European integration, governance and socio-economic policy.

Wolfgang H. Reinicke is the founding dean of the School of Public Policy (SPP) launched at Central European University in September 2011. He is also director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) and a non-resident senior fellow in the foreign policy studies program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.

His areas of expertise include global governance, global finance, international economic institutions, public-private partnerships and global public policy networks as well as EU-US relations. His numerous publications include Global Public Policy. Governing without Government? (Brookings Institution Press 1998), Critical Choices. The United Nations, Networks, and the Future of Global Governance (with Francis Deng, Thorsten Benner, Jan Martin Witte, IDRC Publishers 2000) and Business UNUsual. Facilitating United Nations Reform Through Partnerships (with Jan Martin Witte, United Nations Publications 2005).

Reinicke was a senior scholar with the Brookings Institution from 1991-1998 and a senior partner and senior economist in the Corporate Strategy Group of the World Bank in Washington, DC, from 1998-2000. From 1999-2000, while in Washington, he directed the Global Public Policy Project, which provided strategic guidance on global governance for the UN Secretary General’s Millennium Report. He co-founded the Global Public Policy Institute in 2003.

Wolfgang Reinicke holds degrees from Queen Mary College of London University (BSc in economics) and Johns Hopkins University (MA in international relations and economics). He received his MPhil and PhD in political science from Yale University.

On leave in AY 2012-2013.

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Howard Robinson is University Professor in Philosophy. Between 2007 and 2010 he was Provost and Academic Pro-Rector of the University. He mainly specializes in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics, including the philosophy of religion: he also has an interest in the history of philosophy.

Thomas has been teaching academic writing at CEU since 1996. In that time he has taught and consulted with students from most departments, including Economics, History, International Relations and European Studies, Legal Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology & Social Anthropology. Before coming to CEU he taught English as a Second and Foreign Language in San Francisco and with the Peace Corps in Hungary. He has a B.A. from Villanova University, an M.A. from Arizona State University, and in 2012 was awarded a PhD (summa cum laude) from the English Renaissance and Baroque Literature program at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem in Budapest. His work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespearean International Yearbook, Early Modern Literary Studies and Notes & Queries, and he has given papers at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, the 2010 Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies conference, and the 2012 University of Reading Early Modern Studies Conference.

Tamas Rudas is Dr. rer. nat. (mathematics), Eötvös Loránd University; Candidate of Science (mathematics), Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He completed his Habilitation (sociology), Eötvös Loránd University and holds a Széchenyi Professorship. He is also a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (sociology). Tamas Rudas had visiting positions at Pennsylvania State University; University of Toledo; Educational Testing Service, Princeton; Center for Surveys, Methodology and Analysis, Mannheim; Fields Institute, Toronto; University of Graz; Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, Koeln; University of Erfurt; University of Ljubljana; and the University of Washington. His research interests are in multivariate statistics, analysis of categorical data, survey methodology, and applied statistics.

András Sajó is a judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg. He took his position on February 1, 2008. He is a University Professor at CEU and Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School. Professor Sajó was the founding dean of Legal Studies at CEU. In addition to his stature as a prominent constitutionalist, he is also a distinguished scholar in the human rights field, including media regulation.

Sally is the founding director of the CTL where she works with faculty and doctoral students through individual consultations, research-based seminars, and collaborative projects with faculty across the University.

cultural historian of Renaissance and Reformation;
(sometimes) cultural analyst and developer of cultural policies

Lea Sgier is assistant professor of political science at CEU, and lecturer at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection of the University of Essex (UK). Previously she was a lecturer and researcher at the University of Geneva and at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Geneva.
Her research areas are: gender and politics (political representation, gender quotas, citizenship, social policy, LGBT rights), qualitative methodology, discourse analysis.

Marsha Siefert began teaching courses in international communication and oral history at CEU in 1996. Her research focuses on cultural and communications history, with current projects on nineteenth-century imperial telecommunications networks and film cultures in the Cold War.

My research interest includes ancient, late antique and medieval science and philosophy, medieval manuscript studies and cognitive science. My current research project explores visual thinking and diagrammatic reasoning. After having received my PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1998, I have held research positions for eight years at the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute (University of London), and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), and most recently for a year at the Collegium Budapest. I have taught courses in medieval science, philosophy, intellectual history, manuscript studies, palaeography and cognitive science in Cambridge, London, and Budapest. My current courses at CEU include medieval science and codicology.

My work is focused on teaching and research that are respectively geared toward innovative student-centered learning and action research useful for understanding and supporting social movements for environmental and social justice. In addition to directing the doctoral program in our department and supporting the CEU Sustainability Advisory Committee and the Sustainable Campus Initiative, I am co-founder of the Environmental and Social Justice Action Research Group (ACT JUST). ACT JUST involves learning forums and research on the relationship between everyday living, the environment, and social, economic, and political forces. The courses that I teach include: Environmental Politics, Qualitative Research Methods, and Disciplinary Approaches to Environmental Problems.

Obtaining PhD from Rutgers University, his research concentrates on geometric topology. He studies low dimensional topology, including knot theory, 3- and 4-dimensional topology, with a special attention to exotic smooth structures on 4-manifolds. He also works on symplectic and contact topology. Gauge theoretic invariants (such as Seiberg-Witten and Heegaard Floer invariants) play crucial roles in these studies.

PhD, Université de Paris-Sud, 1998. Research in arithmetic and algebraic geometry. Wrote two books on aspects of modern Galois theory published by Cambridge University Press. Regularly teaches courses at CEU in algebraic geometry, algebra and number theory. Currently supervises his second PhD student at CEU

Urban history, literacy, material culture

Professor Tibor Tajti received his S.J.D. and LL.M. degrees from Central European University and his LL.B. from the Law School of the University of Novi Sad, Serbia. He is currently teaching in the International Business Law Program at CEU Legal Studies Department. 

His research interest includes combinatorics, discrete and computational geometry, and complexity theory.

Prof. Timár’s research interests include literature and queer theory, sexuality, literary theory, deconstruction, performativity, embodiment and political philosophy, discourses of friendship and fraternity. She teaches courses on queer theory, performativity, and prostitution. Her current work primarily focuses on the multifaceted links between the figure of the post-Revolutionary citizen and the modern figure of the (male) homosexual; related projects focus on the role of 19th century nationalism in the development of discourses of homosexuality and current Hungarian homophobia, other projects focus on deconstructive approaches to questions of embodiment,

Davide Torsello was trained in socio-cultural anthropology at academic institutions of different countries (Italy, Japan, UK, Germany, Hungary), and the variety of their theoretical and methodological perspectives exerted an everlasting influence on his scientific profile. Through over ten years of ethnographic fieldwork research experience mostly in Central Eastern Europe, in Italy and Japan, he developed sensitivity for investigating trust, corruption, informal economy, interpersonal and power relations, performance of government institutions and organizations and has been able to construct case studies based on the use of different research methodologies. He has extensive teaching experience at BA, MA, and PhD level.
Professor at the University of Bergamo, he taught also at: University of Milan Bicocca, University of Roma Tre, Charles University in Prague, Comenius University Bratislava, American University of Richmond, UK and at University of Hirosaki, Japan.

Zsuzsanna teaches Academic Writing in the Departments of IRES and Political Science at CEU. She has taught ESP, EFL, Culture Studies and Specialist Translation courses at Szent Istvan University and worked with undergraduate and graduate students of Social Sciences, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Mechanical Engineering as well as Communication and Media Studies. She holds an MA in English Language and Literature from Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest and a postgraduate degree in Specialist Translation.

Anna Turner, Ph.D. has her M. Sc. in Economics from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration (BUESPA). She has been teaching for 12 years, both graduate and undergraduate level. Her courses include financial accounting, cost accounting, business economics and financial management.

Her experience in teaching includes in the Corvinus University (Budapest), Wirschaftuniversitaet Wien (Vienna, Austria), Számalk (Budapest), Middlesex University (London, UK) and the CEU Business School. She also experienced in training professionals and delivering corporate courses.

Her PhD dissertation focused on Maximising Shareholder Value in Eastern Europe. She was awarded a summa cum laude doctoral diploma. Her area of research is value based-measures and value-based management. She is a co-writer of a book about shareholder value, published in 2006.

She is the Coordinator for the Accounting, Finance and Economics Ares of study.

Ph.D. (UC Berkeley and UCLA), MSc (ELTE, Budapest):  Energy efficiency and renewable energy sources; energy policies for economies in transition; CO2 emission mitigation; climate change policy; EU enlargement and sustainable energy policy.

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Tibor Vörös has over 15 years of experience both in academic and corporate environments. He has worked in various management areas (knowledge management, decision making, business intelligence, information systems) as practitioner, but he also researched these topics and evaluated corresponding frameworks from the theory point of view. Mr Vörös is holding an MSc in Maths, Physics and Information Technology and currently working at the CEU Business School as Senior Lecturer. His research work ranges from social media to cultural and strategic issues for corporations. More recently Mr Vörös spent considerable time on various business simulations and created unique storyboards to help students experience real life problems in classroom situations. Current research work concentrates on the relationship of culture and technology. CEEMAN has selected Mr Voros as the winner of the Innovation in Course Design category for the CEEMAN Champions’ Award 2010.

David Weberman earned his M.A. at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich, Germany and his Ph.D. at Columbia University, New York. He has also taught at New York University,University of Wisconsin-Madison and Georgia State University. He has published on philosophy of history, Heidegger, Gadamer, Foucault, Sartre, ideology, political philosophy and race. He is now writing a book on the philosophy of interpretation.

Teaching in the Winter term 2013

She obtained her Ph.D. at the Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies in 2004.
Since 2003 she has been research fellow at the University of Padova. Here she worked upon three main research topics: 1) The study of cemeteries from a gender perspective deals with problems as social construction, examining with particular attention its relation to both ethnicity and migration in late antiquity and Early Middle Ages. 2) Demography, mortality and life styles of the Early Middle Ages. 3) History of barbarian archaeology, with particular attention to the 19th and 20th centuries.
Between 2003 and 2006 she regularly taught at the school of archaeology of the University of Padova.
In 2008 she was research fellow at the Academy of Sciences of Vienna, in the frame of the Wittgenstein project, coordinated by W. Pohl.
Since 1990, she worked on different archaeological excavations in Italy and abroad.

Deniz Bingol McDonald after receiving her Master’s degree from Warwick University, UK, has been writing her PhD dissertation on EU conditionality and restructural reforms in Slovakia, Romania and Turkey, in Central European University- Budapest. She published in Millennium and European Journal of Public Policy on civil society-state relations and financial sector reforms in EU candidate countries. Her other research interest include political economy of property rights reform,Turkish foreign policy, regulatory politics in EU states and public opinion in EU accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Amy Brouillette has been a Research Fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) since February 2011. Her current research involves examining Hungary’s new media laws in the European context. Amy has worked as both an on-staff and freelance journalist for more than ten years, reporting for daily, weekly and online U.S.-based publications. Her articles and photography have appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review, The Los Angeles Times and The Denver Post. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder (2007), and a master’s degree in Central European history from CEU (2009). In 2008, she was a visiting graduate student in Harvard’s Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies (REECA) program, where she studied post-communist media development in Central and Eastern Europe.

I am a research fellow working with Anne Tamm and Gergely Csibra on generics, evidentiality and cognitive development. Before coming to CEU I completed a research masters in linguistics at the Utrecht University.

Currently a Senior Research Fellow at the CEU/CEMS. She graduated from the University of Athens, Greece (BA in History, Archaeology and Art History) and received her MA (2006) and PhD (2011) in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK. Her PhD thesis is titled: ‘Unknown Byzantine Art in the Balkan Area: Art, Power and Patronage in 12th to 14th century churches in Albania’, supervised by Dr. Antony Eastmond. Her current research is focused on: a) developing her thesis into a publication on Art Production and Patronage, Power and Society in Middle and Late Byzantine Albania and, b) exploring the ways and purposes for which the Byzantine Imperial Image – or ‘its mimesis’- was used along the fringes and outside the Byzantine Empire (including also Central Europe and the Caucasus).
She has held scholarships from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) and the A.G. Leventis Foundation. She has lived and worked in Albania for several years where she picked up her art historic interest in the country and cooperated with the Museum of Berat and the National Institute of Monuments. She has worked in excavations in Greece, France and Cyprus. She has delivered papers on Medieval Albania in various conferences and has currently three publications underway.
Interests: Byzantine art in all forms with emphasis on iconography (wall paintings, manuscripts, coins, liturgical objects); Medieval art in the Balkan region; artistic interaction in the Eastern Mediterranean; movement of ideas through art; medieval multicultural societies and cultural geography; use of images as historical evidence; functions of art and patronage; association between art and the formulation of social and political identities; medieval political ideologies and their accommodation through art; the concept of ‘propaganda’ in medieval art.

Enikő Demény is a Junior Researcher at the CEU Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB). She received her PhD in Philosophy in 2006 at the Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj. Her research interests include the impact of new technologies on identity and the family; ethical, legal, social and policy aspects of new converging technologies (biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology and cognitive sciences); social sciences and bioethics, gender and science, feminist epistemology, the anthropology of international bioethics governance.

Tamas Dombos is a doctoral student at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology. He is affiliated with the Center for Policy Studies as a Junior Research Fellow, and has worked on a number of CPS initiatives, such as the QUING (Quality in Gender+ Equality Policies) and DIOSCURI (Eastern Enlargement - Western Enlargement: Cultural Encounters in the European Economy and Society After the Accession)

Ellen Hume is the Annenberg Fellow in Civic Media at CMCS. Appointed in 2009 by Michael Delli Carpini, Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, Ellen participates in research projects and workshops. She taught “News Media and Political Power: Global Lessons from the American Experience” for the CEU Political Science Department in 2010. Before coming to CEU, Ellen was the Research Director at the Center for Future Civic Media in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Previously, she founded the Center on Media and Society at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the New England Ethnic Newswire. She also served as executive director and senior fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, and as executive director of PBS's Democracy Project, where she developed special news programs that encouraged citizen involvement in public affairs. Ellen was a White House and political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, national reporter for the Los Angeles Times and regular commentator on PBS's Washington Week in Review and CNN's Reliable Sources programs.

I completed my undergraduate studies in Psychology at the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca, Romania in 2000, followed by an MA degree from the same university in 2002. In 2008 May i have received a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, from SISSA, Trieste, Italy (Advisor Prof. Jacques Mehler). From 2007 till 2010 I was a Marie Curie research fellow in the DISCOS project at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest and a research fellow at the CEU Cognitive Development Centre. Currently I am a research fellow at the CEU Cognitive Development Centre.

Stanislava Kuzmová graduated from History and English language and literature at Comenius University in Bratislava before studying at the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU (MA, PhD). She defended her PhD dissertation in 2010 and currently works as a postdoctoral researcher on the project "Communicating Sainthood" (OTKA at CEU) associated to the ESF project "Symbols that Bind and Break Communities."

Marton studied Public Administration and Communication at Roskilde University in Denmark. Main field of interest is aid effectiveness, donor coordination, and the role of international development organizations to promote coherent frameworks. Marton worked with the United Nations in various international settings. He is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies (CPS).

Judit Majorossy graduated from History and English language and literature at Janus Pannonius University in Pécs (Fünfkirchen) before studying at the Department of Medieval Studies at CEU (MA, PhD). She defended her PhD dissertation in 2006. Afterwards, she obtained several post-doctoral scholarships in Hungary (Magyary Zoltán Fellowship, OTKA) and was affiliated to the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, but she also had extensive research periods abroad, in Edinburgh at the Advanced Studies Institute with nominated fellowship and in Münster (Institut für vergleichende Städtegeschichte) with the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. As a returning Humboldt-fellow she continues her postdoctoral researcher on the project " Urban Space and Urban Society: Comparative Investigation of the Usage of Space, Social Topography and Social Networks in Western Hungary (1400–1550)" as an alumna at the Department of Medieval Studies.

CEU 20th Anniversary Postdoctoral Fellow
Political Economy Research Group

Aaron Pitluck is a research fellow specializing in global finance at the Political Economy Research Group for 2011-2013. He is also an Associate Professor of Sociology, currently on leave from Illinois State University (USA). Previous to that appointment, he worked at the University of Konstanz (Germany) in Prof. Karin Knorr Cetina’s Research Unit on Knowledge, Finance and Society. He obtained his PhD in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. His most recent publication is “Distributed Execution in Illiquid Times: An Alternative Explanation of Trading in Stock Markets,” Economy and Society 40(1), 26-55. He has chapters forthcoming in the Handbook of the Sociology of Finance and the International Handbook of World-Systems Analysis.

Roxana Radu is currently a Research Fellow at the CMCS and a PhD candidate in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, University of Geneva. She holds a masters’ degree in Political Science from CEU (Budapest), where she received the Best Thesis Award in 2010. Prior to starting her Phd, Roxana worked at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at Central European University (CEU) as program coordinator and researcher. Her expertise includes citizen empowerment, democratic (e)participation, and social uses of new technologies. From March to October 2011, she took part in the Next Generation Leaders program of the Internet Society and collaborated extensively with the Education Support Program of the Open Society Foundations.

Robert joined the Department of Political Science in 2006 as PhD Coordinator and since 2007 he works as the Academic Coordinator.

Anna Selmeczi graduated from the IR track of the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations at the Central European University in 2011/2012. Her dissertation – drawing on field research with Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African shantytown movement – focuses on the possible forms of political action in the face of biopolitical abandonment.

Anna is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Studies (CPS).

Marcela is PhD student in the field of Economics at the University "Stefan cel Mare" Suceava. Her research interest is mainly in cross-border areas with focus on Romania-Ukraine-Republic of Moldova area. She joined CENS in October 2012, her work being mainly in European Neighbourhood Policy and Eastern Partnership.

Elena B. Stavrevska is a PhD Candidate at the CEU Department of International Relations and European Studies, where she also obtained her M.A. degree with a final thesis entitled "EU Intelligence-Sharing: The British Quid Pro Quo?". Her current research focuses on critical local agency and its interaction with the liberal peace idea in post-conflict societies, analyzing the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project is supervised by Professor Michael Merlingen and Professor John Shattuck.

Anna Szász, sociologist, did a Master in ’Nationalism Studies’ at Central European University and a year later graduated from University College London with an MA in ’Culture, Identity and Power’. Currently she has been a Doctoral candidate in the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Program, Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest, as well as a junior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her research involves Roma contemporary visual art; ethical, pedagogical, political implication of various practices of ethnicity, historical remembrance; dynamics between domination and resistance; and the ethnic dimension in structural formations.

I am a linguist. My research is on language and cognition. I obtained my PhD in Linguistics from the Theoretical Linguistics Program, Eötvös Loránd University in 2005. I have published on categories, mainly case, aspect, modality, evidentiality, negation, and verb classes. My recent research focuses on evidentiality and generics.

Joost van Beek has been a research fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) at CEU since September 2009. Prevously, he worked at the EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program (EUMAP) of the Open Society Institute, and Mira Media, a Dutch NGO that promotes the representation of minorities in the media.

Rian Wanstreet began work as a Research Fellow and a Coordinator at the CMCS in September 2011. Her research focuses on Internet governance and regulation, Open Internet initiatives, spectrum regulation and the evolving role of the Public Interest concept in policy-making and regulation. She was an Erasmus Mundus Scholar from 2009 to 2011, has an M.A. in Public Policy from CEU, and an M.A. in Public Administration from the University of York, UK. Rian comes to CEU with ten years of experience working in Chicago with nonprofit and political organizations in media relations, policy development, legislative lobbying, program management, volunteer coordination, and donor relations. She also served in the Peace Corps.

Anita has been working for CEU Economics Department since 2006. Her main duties include website management and student issues.

The Director of IT is the head of the IT group and reports to the Chief Operating Officer (COO). He is responsible for the smooth operation of all hardware and software systems, supervision of the IT Helpdesk and support for overall user satisfaction concerning IT services.

Thorsten Benner is co-founder and director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin. As part of the project “Public Policy Schools in the 21st Century: A Global Approach” he works with the SPP team at CEU as well as OSF and also leads the concept development for the SPP conference series. His areas of expertise include international organizations (focusing on the UN), global security governance, global energy and the public-private interface in global governance as well as Europe's global role & relations with the US and rising powers. Prior to co-founding GPPi in 2003, he worked with the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, the UN Development Program (UNDP) in New York and the Global Public Policy Project in Washington, DC. He teaches in the EMPM program at the Hertie School of Governance. His publications include “The New World of UN Peace Operations: Learning to Build Peace?” (Oxford University Press 2011). His commentary has appeared in DIE ZEIT, the International Herald Tribune, the L.A. Times, Handelsblatt, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Financial Times Deutschland and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, among others.

He studied political science, history and sociology at the University of Siegen (Germany), the University of York (UK) and the University of California at Berkeley. From 2001-2003 he was a McCloy Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he received a Master in Public Administration (MPA).

Previous employment at CEU Press, Ludwig Museum Budapest and the Hungarian Federation of Free Radios. Completed studies in the US (Oberlin Conservatory) and England, and grew up in Delhi, India.

Deniz Bingol McDonald after receiving her Master’s degree from Warwick University, UK, has been writing her PhD dissertation on EU conditionality and restructural reforms in Slovakia, Romania and Turkey, in Central European University- Budapest. She published in Millennium and European Journal of Public Policy on civil society-state relations and financial sector reforms in EU candidate countries. Her other research interest include political economy of property rights reform,Turkish foreign policy, regulatory politics in EU states and public opinion in EU accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Éva Bognár is Coordinator and Researcher at the CMCS. As Project research officer of the three-year European collaborative research project "Civicweb - Young people, the Internet and Civic Participation", funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, Éva ran the project with research assistant Judit Szakács for the CMCS between 2006 and 2009. Éva conducted the Hungarian research for the project BROAD (Broadening the Awareness in Data Protection), a collaboration between Hungarian and Dutch not-for-profit organizations. Recently she has been studying Hungarian minorities and their use of online space. Her background is in sociology.

Eszter joined ACRO in January 2012 as a Research Grants Coordinator. She is responsible for grants offered by national funding agencies. She manages applications for IVF (International Visegrad Fund), OSI (Open Society Institute) and private foundations.

Edward Branagan is Project Director for the Office of the Dean in the School of Public Policy (SPP). Prior to coming to SPP, he co-founded Global Playground, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote educational opportunities in developing countries. He was previously an Associate Project Manager and an Internal Consulting Analyst at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in New York City.

He holds a Masters degree in International Relations, with a concentration in Conflict Management, from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Finance, from the College of William & Mary. Branagan has studied at the Forester Institute in San Jose, Costa Rica, taught English to students in Zenica, Bosnia, studied at Johns Hopkins University's Bologna Center in Bologna, Italy, and completed a one-year Boren Fellowship in Russia.

Kati's tasks include public events and course evaluations.

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Corinne's main tasks are course scheduling and recruitment matters.

Eszter obtained her MA at CEU’s IRES Department in 2009. Before returning to the department in July 2011, she spent two years in Estonia volunteering and working as a volunteer coordinator.

Krisztian Gabris is the Lab Manager for Natalie and Guenther`s new lab. Krisztian's past professional experience includes working at the CNRS Marseille Cognitive Laboratory. He has earned his MA in Psychology from PPKE, an MA in Nationalism Studies from CEU and a BA in Maitrise de Sciences Cognitive from Universite de Provence.

Henriett Griecs joined CEU in 1999 and has been working for the Masters Program in Public Policy since its foundation in 2004. She is head of the Department of Public Policy's administrative team, and she is also the Administrative Coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Masters Program in Public Policy, Mundus MAPP.

Katalin Horvath joined the School of Public Policy after working as special programs coordinator at CEU's Legal Studies Department.
Prior to joining CEU, she worked for a small Budapest-based NGO where she was involved in educational projects as well as counseling for migrants and victims of human rights violations.
She earned her MA degrees in English and French Philology from Attila Jozsef University (now University of Szeged), Hungary.

Zsolt has an MA in International Relations and Music Teaching. Prior to joining CEU he worked at the Music Conservatory in Veszprem as Teacher. Apart from teaching he worked as Project Manager at a consulting company, and earlier at a news agency.

Ilona Ilyes re-joined the School of Public Policy as assistant for Executive Programs after working for the SchoolNet Madagascar NGO in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Previously she has been working for the regional office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Hungary.

Ilona holds a BA in Law and History/International Relations from the Babes-Bolyai University, Romania and an MA in International Relations and European Studies from CEU.

Lilla Jakobs joined CEU in 1998 as the coordinator of the Department of Gender Studies, and has been affiliated with the Center for Policy Studies since 2004. She is head of the management team at the Center for Policy Studies, responsible for overseeing the general operations of the Center, implementing research initiatives, and working with Research Fellows on designing new projects and proposals.

Peter Johnson is Vice President for Student Services, and oversees the functional areas of admissions, financial aid, psychological counseling, student life, student recruitment, student records and registration. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations and a BA in Modern Languages. His professional career includes positions managing recruitment, admissions, financial aid, and international student services at various institutions including the University of California-Berkeley, Golden Gate University, and Pacific University. Peter has been actively involved in the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC); and NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

Janka gained her first degree in English and Mathematics at ELTE Teacher Training College, Budapest, then continued with English and American Studies at ELTE. In 2000 received an MA at CEU in International Relations and European Studies. She also holds a certificate in Journalism. Over the past years, Janka has had diverse work experience in the areas of education, media, public administration and event-organization: starting as a teacher of English, working at Freedom House, later engaging in online publishing at Sanoma, Budapest. Before coming to CEU, she was placed at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and also worked at Duna Televízió as a program announcer. For over eight years she has been working at CEU Student Services, currently supervising the Student Life Office team.

Elvira’s main responsibilities include: contracting, budgeting, grants, admissions, recruitment, editing the departmental publications, stipend issues and general assistance to students and faculty.
You can contact her at: kadvanye@ceu.hu
Phone number: 36-1-327-3053

Richard has been working at the CEU since 1993. He started in the Library and joined in 2005 Student Services where he is currently Student Life Officer. Prior to moving to Europe, Richard had filled in his native Suriname P.R. positions in the Justice Ministry and the local news media. He speaks Dutch, English, Surinamese, and Hungarian.

Before joining SPP, Gabriella worked on MA program administration issues at the CEU’s Department of Public Policy. Between 1999-2004, she worked for the Civic Education Project, an international non-profit organization that supported grassroots efforts to promote international standards in social science education in transitioning countries.
She holds a BA in Public Administration from the College of Public Administration (now National University of Public Service), Hungary as well as a degree in European Studies from the Corvinus University of Budapest.

Mark has joined CEU in 2008. He holds an MA in Economics (Corvinus University Budapest) and an ACCA qualification. Before joining CEU Mark has worked for various for-profit organizations and has broad knowledge in finance (accounting, audit, controlling, treasury, banking).

Viktória Kőszegi works as a Program Coordinator at the Center for Policy Studies since October, 2012. She is responsible for organization of events, travel and accommodation arrangements, administration and financial management of research and mobility projects, drafting narrative and financial project reports. Also she contributes to the everyday operation of the Center, provides assistance with proposal writing and negotiation of research grants and with maintaining the online platforms of CPS.

Alex Krasznay works as Program Coordinator at the Human RightS Initiative (HRSI) at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary. He holds a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from the “Babes–Bolyai” University of Cluj–Napoca, and graduated from CEU in 2010 with an M.A. in Political Science, focusing on Civil Society and Media Studies. Before coming to Budapest, Alex used to work with grass–roots organizations in developing community building projects for youth. He also took part in British Council’s pan–European program on intercultural dialogue, “Living Together”. Alex started to work at HRSI in 2010 as a project manager and research fellow. Since June 2011, he coordinates all HRSI’s projects and serves as a liaison with partner NGOs, universities, and international organizations. Alex’s contact information at CEU: E–mail KrasznayA@ceu.hu; Tel. (36-1) 327–3000 ext. 2377.

Alexandra graduated from Central European University in 2010 and holds an MA in International Relations and European Studies. After graduation she continued working full time as an Assistant Audio-Visual Archivist at the Open Society Archives at CEU. Currently she is a Research Assistant at the Center for Policy Studies and a part-time Research Assistant in the project “Negotiating Modernity” at CEU.

Viktoria is responsible for dealing with several student-related matters with the Hungarian authorities such as acquiring tax numbers, arranging health insurance, etc.
Viktoria has been at Central European University since 1998 starting her career at the External Relations Office before promoting to the position of Marketing Coordinator for two years in the CEU Business School. She earned her economic diploma in 1998 in the College of Commerce and Economics, Szolnok.

Vanda joined ACRO as a Research Grants Coordinator in 2007. She manages FP7 collaborative projects, major grants of the European Research Council (ERC) and the European Science Foundation (ESF).
Before coming to the CEU, she gained research management experience at Tempus Public Foundation writing proposals and implementing FP6/FP7 and nationally funded projects.

Melinda is in charge of the Economic Policy MA students' internship program, INET-Oxford grant administration and conferences.

Majored in English Language and Information Techology at the University of Debrecen. Currently working as a Coordinator for the Center for Integrity in Business and Government in CEU Business School.

Office hours: Weekdays from 9: 00 to 17:00
Office: Zrinyi 405

Eva gained an MA degree in Economics at Corvinus University Budapest in 2010. Prior to joining the Student Life Office she worked as a financial assistant at an event management company. Eva is responsible for administering insurance and residency documents of enrolled students, dealing with various student-related matters within SLO and assist in the organization of student activities.

The Student Records Coordinator provides assistance in using the information resources effectively. The coordinator helps students to use the Infosys and assists other registration related inquiries.

Dealing with: schedule, grades, thesis issues, internship, admission, course registration, cross-listing, exchange and visiting students, public events, reimbursements, general advice, website maintenance, departmental publications.

Zsuzsa currently serves as Executive Assistant to the Vice President for Student Services. Prior to joining Student Services, she worked as a Coordinator at the CEU IT Department. Zsuzsa earned an MA degree in English and American Studies as well as an English Language Teaching degree at the University of Debrecen in 2009.

Eszter Polgari is a Special Project Officer in the Legal Studies Department. She holds a PhD in law from the Eotvos Lorand University of Science. Her main tasks are tutoring, JI Fellows' academic support, research assistance and research. She also teaches and coordinates a number of courses and activities in the Human Rights Program. She has participated in various projects monitoring the situation of human rights in Hungary, she regularly volunteers for civil society organizations and works in advocacy and litigation projects. Her main areas of research are the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, particularly the role of the European consensus, constitutional law and LGBT rights.

Received his MA in Public Policy at CEU. Currently working as a researcher at the Center for Business and Society, CEU Business School. He is also a member of the National Expert Committee on Enhancing Substance Abuse Prevention at Workplaces in Hungary. His research area covers corporate social responsibility, substance abuse prevention, and business involvement in the resolution of complex social issues.

Joanna is a sociologist of education (PhD in Education, Keele University), a consultant and teacher in the field of higher education with extensive experience working with academics and doctoral students from CEU and beyond.

Colleen handles international media relations for CEU, pitching and placing stories, maintaining a faculty experts list, and issuing press releases and news advisories via Cision, the most powerful media database. She also writes articles and produces videos for CEU's institutional website. Colleen brings 10 years of experience, including two years as the associate director of communications for Occidental College in Los Angeles and seven years as a science writer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Serge Sych is Director of Alumni and Corporate Relations at Central European University. He currently manages a diverse portfolio of alumni, career, corporate and fundraising programs. Serge has more than 14 years of experience in higher education advancement, and extensive international experience as a speaker, trainer and consultant. He is Chair of the INTAL (International Alumni Relations) group of the EAIE (European Association for International Education).

Matyas Szabo is the director of the Central European University’s (CEU) Curriculum Resource Center, and is one of the center’s instructors and consultants in higher education, specializing on curriculum development, course design, students’ assessment and quality assurance in higher education. He has offered workshops for university professors in more than 20 countries, and is involved in several international projects targeting curriculum reform and faculty development in higher education.

He received his MA from CEU’s Sociology department in 1994. He has worked as a junior research fellow and teaching assistant at CEU’s Center for the Study of Nationalism, and as an analyst intern at the Radio Free Europe/Open Media Research Institute in Prague. Since 1996 he has been employed by CEU. Currently he is doing his PhD in sociology of knowledge and higher education at the University of Warwick, UK.

Matyas’ main research interests in the area of higher education are the development of social science disciplines in post-socialist countries, and the ways in which international and global trends in knowledge production and the changing role of universities have impacted the content and teaching of social science curricula.

István Szabó joined CENS in January, 2012 as a Research Assistant, responsible for post-Soviet countries, with a special focus on Eastern Partnership and EU-Russia relations.

Áron Szele joined the CENS as a research assistant in November of 2010. His previous training is in the field of comparative social history of Eastern and Central Europe. After receiving his B.A. from the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest, he gained an M.A. in comparative Hungarian-Romanian history from the Department of History of the CEU. He is currently working on a Ph.D. thesis concerning the right-wing populist movements of contemporary Hungary. His main themes of interest and expertise include entangled histories and relationships of Hungary and its neighbors, populist and right-wing radical movements, and minority issues in East-Central Europe. He is a fluent speaker of Hungarian, Romanian, and English and intermediate in French and Italian.

Ms. Miao Tan graduated with Bachelor of Economics and Finance from Beijing International Studies University in 2004 and she holds MBA degree with
Distinction from CEU Business School in 2010. After graduation, she was selected to study in Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University as exchange student for one semester in Finance and Accounting concentration.