Maria M. Kovacs

Professor
Director, Nationalism Studies Program
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Phone number: 
+36 1 327-3081
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Qualifications: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences doctorate in history, 1996
PhD (Hungarian university doctorate) in history, ELTE University of Budapest, 1987
BA and MA in History ELTE University of Budapest
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements: 

Professional Activities

Member of the Editorial Boards for Ethnopolitics; Blackwell History Compass; Ab Imperio; Századvég
Senior Member (Tudományos Fomunkatárs), Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Assistant Professor of Modern European History, University of Madison-Wisconsin, 1992-1997
Board Member, Roma Access Program, Open Society Institute
Member, European Association, Woodrow Wilson Center,
Editor, The Academy Publishing House, Budapest, 1976-1984
Academic/research topics: 
liberalism
minority
nationalism
Academic/Research Areas: 
History and Medieval Studies

Publications

Book
Studies on nationalism from CEU, Edited by M. M. Kovács and P. Lom. Budapest: Central European University. Nationalism Studies Program, 2004.
Kovács, M. M., and A. Örkény. Szociológiai füzetek. Vol. 52. Budapest: ELTE Szociológiai és Szociálpolotikai Int. és Továbbképző Központ, 1991.
Kovács, M. M.. Studies in Hungarian social history. Vol. 2. Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia University: New York, 1987.
Book Chapter
Kovács, M. M., and J. Tóth. "Kin-state responsibility and ethnic citizenship : The Hungarian case." In Citizenship policies in the new Europe, edited by R. Bauböck, B. Perchinig and W. Sievers. IMISCOE research. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009.
Kovács, M. M., and J. Tóth. "Kin-state responsibility and ethnic citizenship : the Hungarian case." In Citizenship policies in the new Europe, edited by R. Bauböck, B. Perchinig and W. Sievers, 135-159. IMISCOE research. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007.
Kovács, M. M.. "The Case of the Teleki Statue : New Debates on the History of the Numerus Clausus in Hungary." In Jewish Studies at the Central European University, 2003-2005, edited by A. Kovács and M. Miller, 191-208. Vol. 4. Jewish Studies at the CEU 4. Budapest: Central European University. Jewish Studies Program, 2006.
Kovács, M. M.. "A numerus clausus és a zsidótörvények összefüggéséről." In A holokauszt Magyarországon európai perspektívában, edited by J. Molnár, 128-139. Budapest: Balassi kiadó, 2005.
Kovács, A.. "NATO and Hungarian Public Opinion." In Studies on nationalism from CEU, edited by M. M. Kovács and P. Lom, 149-169. Budapest: Central European University. Nationalism Studies Program, 2004.
Kovács, M. M.. "Standards of self-determination and standards of minority-rights in the post-Soviet era : a historical perspective." In Studies on nationalism from CEU, edited by M. M. Kovács and P. Lom, 43-59. Budapest: Central European University. Nationalism Studies Program, 2004.
Várady, T.. "Chances for ideas in a post-dissident intellectual environment." In Studies on nationalism from CEU, edited by M. M. Kovács and P. Lom, 171-176. Budapest: Central European University. Nationalism Studies Program, 2004.
Kovács, M. M.. "Hungary." In Women, gender, and fascism in Europe, 1919-45, edited by K. Passmore, 79-90. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003.
Kovács, M. M.. "Aesculapius militans." In Magyarország társadalomtörténete : 1920-1944, edited by G. Gyáni, 493-507. Vol. 2. Budapest: Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, 2000.
Kovács, M. M.. "A kisebbségek nemzetközi jogvédelmének politikai csapdája." In The Holocaust in Hungary : fifty years later, edited by R. L. Braham and A. Pók, 137-145. Vol. 477. East European monographs 477. New York: Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, 1997.
Kovács, M. M.. "A kisebbségek nemzetközi jogvédelmének politikai csapdája." In Vázsonyi Vilmos emlékezete : konferencia Vázsonyi Vilmos életművéről, edited by F. Kőszeg, 31-38. Budapest: AB-Beszélő, 1995.
Kovács, M. M.. "The Radical Right and the Hungarian Professions : The Case of Doctors and Lawyers, 1918-1945." In Professionen im modernen Osteuropa, edited by C. McClelland, S. Merl and H. Siegrist, 168-188. Vol. 207. Osteuropastudien der Hochschulen des Landes Hessen : Reihe I 207. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1995.
Kovács, M. M.. "Aesculapius militans." In Magyarország társadalomtörténete : 1920-1944, edited by G. Gyáni, 493-508. Vol. 2. Történeti szociológiai könyvtár 2. Budapest: Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, 1995.
Kovács, M. M.. "Interwar antisemitism in the professions : the case of the engineers." In Jews in the Hungarian economy, 1760-1945 : studies dedicated to Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger on his eightieth birthday, edited by M. K. Silber, 237-244. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1992.
Kovács, M. M.. "Zsidók és magyarok – a rendszerváltás után." In Zsidóság, identitás, történelem, edited by M. M. Kovács, Y. M. Kashti and F. Erős, 49-58. Budapest: T.-Twins Kiadó, 1992.
Kovács, M. M.. "Hungarian women entering the professions : feminist pressures from left to right." In Bildungswesen und Sozialstruktur in Mitteleuropa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, edited by V. Karády and W. Mitter, 247-257. Vol. 42. Studien und Dokumentationen zur vergleichenden Bildungsforschung 42. Köln: Böhlau, 1990.
Kovács, M. M.. "Lawyers against the current anti-Semitism and liberal response in interwar Hungary." In A social and economic history of Central European Jewry, edited by Y. Don and V. Karády, 249-256. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1990.
Kovács, M. M., and A. Örkény. "Promoted cadres and professionals in post-war Hungary." In Economy and society in Hungary, edited by R. Andorka and L. Bertalan, 139-152. Vol. 3. Hungarian sociological studies 3. Budapest: Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences, Department of Sociology, 1986.
Journal Article
Kovács, M. M.. "Hungary." Partisan review 58, no. 4 (1991): 665-669.
Miscellaneous
Kovács, M. M.. The Politics of Dual Citizenship in Hungary In Dual citizenship in global perspective : from unitary to multiple citizenship, Edited by T. Faist and P. Kivisto. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Kovács, M. M.. Jews and Hungarians : A View after the Transition. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1992.