History Department Research
Taking advantage of our location in Budapest, the Department of History is an active initiator of ambitious research projects on the history of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe as well as bringing together research on larger geographical entities covering all of Europe and its near abroad. These networks of scholars have culminated in a major undertaking, CEU-HESP Comparative History Project. This is a three-year project to introduce teaching and research in Comparative History into the curricula of target departments at universities in our Region - Central Europe, South East Europe, Eastern Europe --, with CEU acting as the core and the coordinator of the group. We are also seeking institutional strategic partners in order to build a European Comparative History Network over the coming years.
Many of our departmental research projects are undertaken with the support of our sister institution, Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies, including the current "Space, Science, and Claims to European Domination" initiative. Drawing upon our alumnae and distinguished international partners, we have sponsored a range of lecture series, workshops, and conferences, especially geared to encourage communication among the junior scholars from the region. For example, in 2003 Pasts, Inc. began the ongoing Seminar on Recent History funded by the Open Society Institute’s Higher Education Support Program (HESP).
Some of our visitors attend courses sponsored by the Summer University; others stay longer with us to conduct research and teach, as Junior or Senior Visiting Fellows. Many research initiatives are also developed from the twice annual Curriculum Resource Center sessions, where professors from the region come to use CEU resources in developing new courses and learning innovative teaching techniques.
Our faculty is involved in numbers of individual and collective research projects, as well as being members of international boards and European research teams. The faculty publishes and is translated in a wide range of languages. A selected list of books in English suggests the range of scholarship and international reach.
The department has also over the years published its own yearbooks and working papers. These publications are available from the department by request. Under the umbrella of Pasts, Inc., the refereed journal, East Central Europe/L'Europe du Centre-Est. Eine wissenschafliche Zeitschrift, and our book series with CEU Press, "Pasts Incorporated. CEU Studies in the Humanities," features new and emerging scholarship about the region.
As of 2008, the European Review of History / Revue Européenne d'histoire, an international refereed journal for the comparative and transnational history of Europe, also established a new editorial office in Budapest, hosted by our department.
Our alumni also have embarked on important publishing careers, as their profiles suggest. Our MA and PhD students too begin publishing early and often, as evidenced by the impressive list of editorial posts and book titles.
