Mobility Grants

The individual mobility scheme of the Comparative History Project sponsors short term research trips for advanced PhD students and faculty.

PhD student exchange

This scheme allows PhD students (and, in exceptional cases, advanced MAs) to spend maximum three weeks in a chosen regional university – including Central European University - where they would like to pursue research or consult with relevant faculty members.

Faculty Exchange

This scheme allows interested younger faculty members to spend a maximum of two weeks in a chosen regional university – including Central European University - where they would like to pursue research or consult with relevant faculty members.

Grantees:

Virgiliu Paslariuc, Associate Professor, Department of Romanian History and Anthropology, Faculty of History and Psychology, Moldova State University,

  • Host institution: University of Bucharest
  • The image of the Bessarabian nobleman in the Romanian and Russian cultures (1812-1918)

Ion Gumenai, Assistant Professor, Faculty of History and Psychology,State University of Moldova

  • Host institution: European University, St.-Petersburg
  • The confessional minorities from Bessarabia in the 19th century. Comparison of imperial policy towards religious denominations

Svetlana Suveica, Senior lecturer, Faculty of History and Psychology, State University of Moldova

  • Host institution: European University, St.-Petersburg
  • Zemtsvo at the Center and Peripheries of Russian Empire (1860-1918). Comparison of Bessarabia and the St. Petersburg region

Emil Dragnev, Head of UNESCO Chair оf South-East European Studies, Associate Professor at Universal History Department, Historical and Psychological Faculty of State University of Moldova, Associate Professor of UNESCO Chair of Intercultural and Inter-religious Relations, University of Bucharest, Romania

  • Host institution: University of Belgrade
  • The Empire in the Eschatological Perspective. Byzantium, Balkans, Romanian States, Russia and the West”. A comparative analysis of the origin and evolution of imperial ideas in the context of eschatological views

Maria Barsan, PhD candidate, World History Department, State University of Moldova

  • Host institution: University of Cluj
  • Comparative study of literature and authors in the communist era: Romanian and the Moldovan SSR

Lilia Crudu, Lecturer, State University of Moldova, Department: Political Science, PhD Candidate

  • Host institution: European University, St.-Petersburg
  • Formation of the political elite in the USSR in comparative perspective: Center and the provinces

Natalia Timohina, Ph.D candidate, Faculty of History and Psychology, The State University of Moldova

  • Host institution: Russian State Universtiy for Humaninites, Moscow
  • The Consequences of the Crimean War (1853-1856) for Novorosia and Bessarabia

Andrei Emilciuc, State University of Moldova, PhD candidate, Lecturer, Faculty of History and Psychology

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • The role of Port Odessa in the international commerce (1794-1853)

Yuri Bassilov, PhD candidate, Department of History European University at St.Petersburg

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • Comparative study of the different uses of the concept of Eurasia by Russian intellectuals and within German geopolitics, formation of different concepts of pan-regions ( Mitteleuropa, Zentraleuropa, Turan, Danubiana ), as replacement of dissolved empires, among central European intellectuals, knowledge transfer among Orientalists of Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires (Vambery, Goldziher, A. Stein)

Vyra Byvy, Teaching Assistant, Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • Comparative intellectual history as well as political and religious ideologies and ethics in public space predominantly of the 20th century

Pavlo Hrytsak, Master student in Culture Studies at the MA Center for Culture Studies and Sociology, Lviv

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • Religious and liberalism/liberal democracy in society, conflict (epistemological, institutional, etc.) between the liberal (or aspiring liberal) political establishment and the various religious institutions and worldviews

Korshunov, Dmitry Sergeevich, Teaching assistant, Nhizny Novgorod Linguistic University

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • Methodology of comparative history in post-soviet Russian historiography

Firea-Irimescu, Elena, PhD Candidate, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • Orthodox Ecclesiastical Discourse on Religious Identities

Babkova, Galina, Lecturer, Russian State University for the Humanities

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • The Impact of the English Legal Tradition to the Transformation of the Russian Legal System, 18th century

Vukov, Nikolai, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, New Bulgarian University, Sofia

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • Structuring Memories, Refiguring Afterlives: Death and Memory in 1945-1956 Eastern Europe(Historical-Anthropological Investigation)

Javakhia, Bejan

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • Georgia and the Medieval European Space

Kakitelashvili, Ketevan, Associate Professor, Tbilisi State University

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • Comparative Study of Identity Formation Processes of Georgian and South-east European Peoples

Toria, Malkhaz, Assistant Professor, Tbilisi State University

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • Perception of History and the Roots of Ethnic Conflicts: the Caucasus and the Balkans

Cotoi, Calin Nicolae, Lecturer, University of Bucharest

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • Social Democracy and Narodnicism: National Identity and the Left

Hariton, Silviu, University of Bucharest

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • Comparative History in East-Central Europe

Ignjatovic, Aleksandar, Assistant Professor, University of Belgrade

  • Host institution: CEU, Budapest
  • Geographical Borders, National Centers: Histories of Kosovo and Transsylvania as Resource of Nationalistic Culture