Profiles of CEU Researchers

Dr. Antypas joined CEU in 2000. His research interest includeGlobal environmental governance, Environmental policy change and transformation, Human rights and the environment and Science-policy studies. Prior to joining CEU, he worked for Civic Education Project as a visiting professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Rezekne in Latvia and served as a consultant to UNDP, UNEP, the US Forest Service, the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.

Alexander Astrov received his MA in History from Central European University. He obtained his PhD in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Andrzej Baniak is an associate professor in the Department of Economics of Central European University. His research interests are in law and econonmics, 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.

Rositsa Bateson teaches in the Higher Education Policy and Management Stream of the Department of Public Policy. She is also Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy at the University of Southampton, UK.
Previously Vice President of Student Services at CEU (2000-2009), she is now Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of Abertay Dundee (UK) where she is responsible for student recruitment, corporate communications, international academic partnerships, student services, alumni relations, fundraising, central registry, library services and IT services for the University.  

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.

Magdalena is a PhD student at Political Science Department. She holds an MA degree in European Studies from Adam Mickiewicz Uniwersity, Poland, and in Political Science from Central European University.
Magdalena's dissertation focuses on transnational cooperation between trade unions from Western and Central-Eastern Europe. Her other research interests include industrial relations in Europe, labor and postcommunist transition and political economy of EU's Eastern enlagrement.

Dr Daniel Bochsler joined DISC in Fall 2009 after defending his PhD at the University of Geneva (2008), specializing in the effects of electoral systems on party systems in post-communist democracies, mediated by party nationalisation. His research centres on political parties, elections and direct democracy, focusing on young democracies and on Switzerland. His publications include articles in Electoral Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, the European Yearbook for Minority Issues, Public Choice, Regional & Federal Studies, and the Swiss Political Science Review. His new monograph (Territory and Electoral Rules in Post-Communist Democracies) is forthcoming with Palgrave.
Check Daniels webpage on www.bochsler.eu

Judit Bodnar is on leave Winter, Spring 2010
 

György Bőgel works at CEU Business School as Professor of Management. He launched project-based action learning courses in 2001. He teaches courses on organizational behavior, outsourcing and entrepreneurship plus participates in many company projects at the school’s executive education unit. His main research field is the influence of technological development on management structures and processes.

András Bozóki teaches democratization studies, political change, revolution, modernization and development, political ideologies, comparative East Central European politics, elite theory, the political role of intellectuals and other topics in political sociology at Central European University. He studied law, government, and sociology in ELTE Budapest (1978-85) and later at UCLA as junior visiting fellow (1988-9) before completing his PhD in Political Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1992. He habilitated at ELTE in 2003 .

Zoltán Buzády is Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at the CEU Business School.  He has a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the London School of Economics, a Master in Business Administration degree from Cass Business School, London, and a Ph.D. in Strategy and Organization from the Corvinus University of Budapest, as well as management consulting experience and entrepreneurial experiences. He has been teaching at the University of Passau, on MBA and Executive MBA programs of Mannheim-ESSEC, Corvinus University and CEU Business School during the last 10 years.
He has gained experience in various business consulting and management coaching projects.

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

Archaeozoology

Benjamin W. Cramer is Visiting Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Department of Legal Studies. He last worked at Pennsylvania State University, USA where he taught a senior-level course in mass media law and worked as a researcher for the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment. His doctoral dissertation dealt with government transparency and environmental law in the USA. He has also been noted for his research in telecommunications policy, political communications, intellectual property law, and media literacy. So far he has published three peer-reviewed articles in American legal research journals on government transparency and telecommunications policy, and has presented his research at eight academic conferences, two of which were internationally focused.

Raluca Csernatoni’s research interests include topics in International Relations Theory and Security Studies, sub-focusing on the problematic of security policy making, the interconnections between internal and external security, and the international political order post-9/11; and in European Union Studies, concentrating on the European Union’s (EU) new security challenges and policy developments within the framework of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). In her PhD research, she aims to analyze the underpinning institutional condition (temporal, material, and normative) that have pioneered a European defence program in the EU, and to trace the evolutionary dynamics in the defence dimension that led to the creation of the European Defence Agency (EDA).

Veronika Czakó is a PhD candidate at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at CEU. She completed her undergraduate and master’s studies at Budapest Corvinus University and at the London School of Economics, majoring in Economic Policy, with a minor in Sociology. Her current research focuses on climate change action at the city level, from at multi-level governance perspective. Veronika is affiliated to the 3CSEP research center at CEU, where she has been responsible for projects carried out for UNEP and WWF.

Selim Deringil is Recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at the Central European University in Budapest.

Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Policy at Central European University (CEU). She received her PhD in Economics from University of Maryland, College Park, USA, in 2006. Her primary research and teaching interests are in the fields of comparative institutional economics, economic history, and law and economics.

Anil Duman has received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include political economy, economic development, welfare state policies, and comparative economic systems. Currently, she has been specializing on labour market institutions, social security regimes, and their interactions.

John S. Earle is Professor of Economics at CEU and Senior Economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.  He has taught at CEU every year since the founding of the Economics Department in 1991, and has served as department head (1993-1995) and director of the PhD program (2003-2006).  In 1994, he set up the CEU Labor Project as an externally funded unit of the university to promote research on labor economics and other applied microeconomic issues, with particular focus on the transition in CEU's regional neighborhood.  The Project has produced more than 30 publications in academic journals, trained many MA and PhD students over the years, and collaborated on projects ranging from the World Bank, USAID, EU Frameworks, COST, and OECD to several governments of the region.

Zsolt Enyedi received four M.A.’s in comparative social sciences, history, sociology and political science (from University of Amsterdam, ELTE University, and Central European University) and a PhD in political science (from Hungarian Academy of Sciences). His research interests focus 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.

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.

Jay Fogelman has more than thirty years of hands-on business experience, including over twenty-five in IT services and related fields. He has held regional, intercontinental and global management positions with the Amdahl Corporation, EMC Corporation and SAS Scandinavian Airlines. 

He is an experienced consultant, executive coach, project manager and a trained and seasoned facilitator. He has lectured and consulted on five continents. In particular, he has delivered sales training and coaching for some of the world’s largest technology companies across Europe and America.

He managed EMC’s business consulting practice for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
He holds a BA in Philosophy with Special Honors from Lake Forest College, and an MA in Philosophy of of Science from the Johns Hopkins University.
He is the Business School's representative in the CEU Senate.
 

Viktor received his MA in International Studies at the Corvinus University of Budapest. His research focuses on the borderland between political philosophy and international political theory. Viktor’s main interest lies in the ethics and logic of the use of violence in international and national politics and their relation to the emergence and sustenance of political order, a topic approached in his research project through the concept of sovereignty.

Stela Garaz is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at CEU. Previously she received an M.A. degree in political science at CEU and a licentiate diploma at State University of Moldova.
Her research is mainly focused on democratic institutions and ethnic politics in post-Soviet countries. The main goal of Stela's Ph.D. project is to determine whether the regimes with concentrated political power, by virtue of their inner logic, are conducive to inter-ethnic instability in the post-Soviet multi-ethnic states.
In 2008, Stela worked as trainee researcher at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg (Germany). 

Byzantine history, c.600–1500;
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.

Tom Glaser retired from thirty years’ service with the European Commission in 2005. His tasks included six years dealing with the ACP countries and, since 1993, with the enlargement process.His final job before posting to Budapest was concerned with public information covering 28 countries involving a budget of €150 million. He ended his tour in Budapest as Head of the EU Representation. Since 2006, he has been a visiting Professor at CEU, a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Social and European Studies at Koszeg and a board member of Generation Europe Foundation in Brussels.

Marie-Pierre Granger received a PhD in Law from the University of Exeter (UK) in 2001. She joined CEU in 2004. Her teaching and research interests include the legal and political aspects of European integration, judicial process, comparative public law, environmental and social law and policy. On maternity leave from April 2009 until March 2010.

Michael Griffin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy.  He has also been a visitor in the Institute for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, and the philosophy departments at the University of Colorado, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Wake Forest University, and the University of Virginia.  His current research interests focus on philosophers of the early modern period, especially Leibniz, Descartes, Spinoza and Locke.

Prof Hancke is a reader in Political Economy at the Londond School of Economics and a visiting Professor at the Departments of Political Science and IRES at CEU Fall 2007 to Winter 2008.

I studied at CEU in 2004-2005 and now I joined it again for the PhD with focus on climate change and energy efficiency.

Daniel is a PhD student of Political Scinece at Central European University in Budapest and a junior fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the effectiveness and inequality of education, and the political economy of education. He has published in English in Educational Research and Evaluation and in Prospects, and also in several Hungarian publications such as the Education in Hungary 2006.

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.

Jenne received her Ph.D. in 2000 from the Political Science Department at 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 Predoctoral Fellowship at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford; a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF) at Harvard University, and a two-year Carnegie Corporation Scholarship for a book project that compares the League of Nations regional security regime with that of postcommunist Europe. Erin K. Jenne  teaches Masters and Ph.D. courses on qualitative and quantitative methods, ethnic conflict, international relations theory, nationalism and civil war, and international security.

Karoly (Charles Jokay) is a municipal finance and creditworthiness specialist with extensive experience in Central and Eastern European countries, including Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Macedonia and Romania, and recently (2009), India, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.   Having served for two years as the Municipal Capital Markets Development Advisor to the Ministry of Interior and to the Ministry of Finance in Hungary, he has extensive regional experience in policy reform, municipal finance and budgeting, utility infrastructure, and information marketing and dissemination to municipalities. His firm, IGE Consulting Limited (www.ige.hu), established in 1996, provides municipal finance and development consulting to international donors and to Hungarian municipalities.

Since January 2010 Assistant Professor at the Central European University in Budapest. Senior Research Associate (since 2005, Senior since 2007), Deputy Program Director "Migration" (since 2007), the leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets (since 2006) and former Deputy Director of Research (2009) at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Martin Kahanec has held several advisory positions (the World Bank, the European Commission, OECD, etc.). Member of several professional associations (AEA, ESPE, EALE, EEA). His main research interests are Labour and Population Economics, Ethnicity, and Migration. He has published in refereed journals, has a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (OUP), and he has edited scientific volumes and a journal special issue.

Achim Kemmerling holds a PhD in Political Science from Free University Berlin. Before coming to CEU he worked at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), the Jacobs University Bremen and the Hertie School of Governance Berlin. His research interests include the political economy of social and labour market policies, taxation and development.

Youngmi has joined CEU in AY 2009/2010. Youngmi received her PhD from the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2007, and has been at the University of Edinburgh thereafter until her move to CEU. Her main interests are in comparative politics, especially in the study of political parties and party systems, governance and governability, and comparative regionalism. Youngmi was previously Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and has taught at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has been the recipient of several grants, including from the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Japan Foundation, and the Korea Foundation. Her current research explores the role of information technology in political activism, and the impact of political culture on political behaviour. 

Co-founder and first chairman of the Alliance of Free Democrats, Hungary’s liberal party. Took an active part in the process of the transition to democracy in 1989/90. Withdrew from politics in 1991. At present, professor of political science and of philosophy at the Central European University, Budapest. In 1983, guest lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). In 1988/89, visiting professor at the New School for Social Research (New York). In the Fall of 1996, 2000, and 2002, visiting global professor at the New York University School of Law.

Permanent Fellow of Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. Beside CEU, teaching reglarly cultural policy graduate seminars and courses at Leiden University, Bologna University, Bilgi University Istanbul and University of Arts Belgrade.  Initiator and Chair of the European Festivals Research Project. Writer, lecturer, researcher, advisor and frequent conference speaker, esp. on the contemporary performing, arts, cultural policy and international cultural cooperation. Author of several books, many articles and contributions to over 60 edited books.

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. He recently published an article on "Risk in dynamic arbitrage: The price effects of convergence trading" in 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. During his studies, he won the EU-Archimedes Prize in 2002 and the GAM award in 2005.

Born and educated in Budapest, Hungary, I also sent a fair amount of time for study, teaching or research in England, Scotland, North America, Germany and Italy. I have been a member of CEU's History Department since its first MA program in 1992 (and was its head from 1999-2005 and 2006-2008). My acedemic interests focus on intellectual history, especially political and historical thought, inter-cultural communication and reception, and more recently the history of scientific knowledge production, in the early-modern period and the Enlightenment.

Professor at the Nationalism Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the Central European University, Hungary, and since 2002 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethnic and Minority Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Renata is Probationary Doctoral Candidate at Political Science Department, Public Policy track. She received her first MA in Psychology from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her second MA was awarded by CEU in 2003 where she studied at Department of International Relations and European Studies. Her research interest concerns the higher education policy. Renata has over 10 years of experience in this area first as student leader and later as civil servant and in recent years as analyst in Slovak Governance Institute with which she is affiliated also during her studies. She has published dozens of articles in Slovak media on the topic of higher education and was very active in advocacy in regard to higher education issues.

Ottoman history

Lucia is a graduate of the IRES department (2006) and currently a doctoral student at the same department. Her dissertation focuses on analyzing the impact of transition on migration dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). She has participated on various research projects which analyzed economic transition, institution building and labor markets in CEE.  

Paul Lacourbe is Associate Professor of Operations Management at CEU Business School. His research revolves around the management of product innovation and product positioning. He is particularly interested in the psychological aspects and sustainability in product design. His work has appeared in Production and Operations Management, Current Issues of Business and Law, Revue Française de Gestion. Professor Lacourbe holds a Ph.D. from INSEAD. He worked at ESSEC before joining CEU.

Archaeology of the Middle Ages;
medieval monastic culture

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 multiple departments of the Eotvos Lorand University and the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Psychology. He has taught a number of workshops on missing data. Predominantly a methodologist, Levi’s research strives to find new analytical strategies to complex problems and research questions in any field of science.

Born in 1975 in Pécs, Hungary. After graduation from the University of Pécs in 2003 I was started to work as a teacher. I left for studying in England in 2004 and received my MA degree (2006) in European Historical Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, with a dissertation on the cultural influences on fourth century Sopianae in Pannonia. Between 2006 and 2008 I was working in rescue archaeology. I am currently a Doctoral Candidate at the Central European University, Budapest.

Gergo holds an MA in International Studies (2005) from Corvinus University of Budapest and a post-graduate master’s degree in International Business Economics (2006) from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). In 2005, he received the Pro Scientia Gold Medal from the Council of National Scientific Student’s Association of Hungary. He is a Research Assistant at the Center for Policy Studies and a member of the Political Economy Research Group at CEU. Since September 2009 he also works at the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as a junior research fellow. He writes his PhD on the patterns of uneven regional development in postsocialist Central Europe.

Boryana has a BA degree from the American University in Bulgaria in European Studies and Political Science/International Relations, where she defended a thesis entitled “Protest Voting in Bulgaria”. Her MA degree is from the Central European University in International Relations and European Studies, where she defended a thesis entitled “The rise of Euroscepticism in a New Member State of the EU: The case of Bulgaria” Boryana's research interests are in the field of European integration studies and, in particular, the Europeanization of politics and the impact of Eastern Enlargement on the EU politics. Also, issues of quality of democracy in the EU and the issue of democratic representation are central focus of her research at CEU. 

Michael Merlingen's current research interests lie, on the one hand, in European foreign and security policy and, on the other, the intersection of biopolitics and imperialism. He has published two books on the ESDP. He currently works on his third book, provisionally entitled "European Security and Defence Policy: What It Is, How It Works, Why It Matters", which will be published by Lynne Rienner in 2009.

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.

Born  in Zagreb, Croatia, Nov.1., 1950. Studied philosophy and social science in Zagreb University, and at the University of Chicago (1969/70), graduated 1972, Zagreb. Post-graduate studies at the Univerisity of Paris-X (Nanterre) with Paul Ricoeur. DES en philospophie from Universite de Paris X.  Doctorate on "Theories of communication intention-Austin, Grice, Strawson" 1981. University of Ljubljana. After a semestar at the University of Rijeka, taught philosophy at the Philosophy department in Zadar, Croatia, from 1975 to 1993. Presently full professor of philosophy at Philosophy department of the University of Maribor, Slovenia and Director of Doctorate Support Program at Central European University Budapest
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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, 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.
 

Daniel Monterescu studies ethnic relations and urban space in bi-national (mixed) towns as part of a larger project on identity, sociality and gender relations in Mediterranean Cities. His previous projects examine the construction of Arab masculinity and the narration of life stories in Jaffa. His publications feature articles in IJMES, Journal of Mediterranean Studies, Theory and Criticism, Israeli Sociology, Megamot, Public Culture, Identities, World Development and contributions to numerous edited volumes including Islamic Masculinities, and Re-approaching the Border. He is author (with Haim Hazan) of Twilight Nationalism – a bilingual (Arabic-Hebrew) study of autobiographical narratives of Palestinian and Jewish elderly, and editor (with Dan Rabinowitz) of Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities (Ashgate Publishing, 2007).  

Natalia Morozova is in her final year of doctoral studies at the Department of International Relations and European Studies (IRES). She earned her MA from IRES in 2001 writing her Master’s thesis on the Realist interpretation of Tolstoy’s view of history in ‘War and Peace’. Natalia’s research interests include international relations theory, international political theory, Russian post-Soviet foreign policy and political discourse.

Ms. Nora Mzavanadze is half-Lithuanian, half-Georgian by origin and comes from Lithuania. Before starting MS and PhD studies, Nora has worked for the Lithuanian Green Movement (in 'Aukuras' and 'Zemyna' regional branches) and for the biweekly newspaper 'Zalioji Lietuva' (Green Lithuania). Since then she has collaborated with the Ministry of Environment of Lithuania, Public Policy and Management Institute (Lithuania), UNDP Lithuania, Lithuanian National Radio and Television, 'CSR network' consulting company (UK), weekly opinion newspaper 'Atgimimas' (Lithuania), CEU Business School (Hungary) and UNEP through CEU GEO collaborating center.

Medieval economic history

Vlad Naumescu is teaching at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology since 2007. He has conducted extensive fieldwork on Greek Catholics in Ukraine and Romania and recently started fieldwork on St. Thomas Christianity in South India. His research focuses on religion, particularly Eastern Christianity, and cultural transmission, on which he published a monograph Modes of Religiosity in Eastern Christianity: religious processes and social change in Ukraine (Lit 2007) and a coedited volume (with Stephanie Mahieu) Churches In-Between: Greek Catholic Churches in Postsocialist Europe (Lit 2008).

Gar Yein Ng is a scholar and expert in the field of judicial organization and comparative constitutional law. She obtained her PhD from the faculty of law at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, in March 2007. Her PhD thesis project looks at how organisational quality (i.e. TQM and quality standards) operates alongside constitutional principles of judicial independence and accountability. She has academic backgrounds in both civil and common law system.

Dr. Aleksandra Novikova has been at CEU since 2003.  Currently she holds a Senior Researcher position at the Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Policy (3CSEP), the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy. Her research interests include energy security, sustainable energy policy, and climate change mitigation assessment. She is a Lead Author of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a Lead Analyst of the Global Energy Assessment.

Cynthia received the terminal degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University's School of the Arts, where she specialized in nonfiction writing. Her current writing and research interests include curriculum design, biographies of place, oral history as an agent of social change, teaching writing through local history, collective memory in individual & national identity development, and politics of knowledge in policy-making. Prior to joining CEU's faculty in 2009, Cynthia taught university writing at Columbia University.
 

I received my PhD in Rome at "La Sapienza" University in 2005. Then I have spent three and a half years in Leipzig, Germany, at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, where I specialized in EEG/ERP (event related brain potentials) and NIRS (near infrared spectroscopy) techniques with young infants. My research interests are focused on infant development, in particular the development social cognition.

Anton Pelinka has taught as full professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, from 1975 to 2006. He was visiting professor at different universities - University of New Orleans, Harvard University (Schumpeter Fellow), Stanford University (Austrian Chair), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Université Libre de Bruxelles (Institute for European Studies). His main research interest is on Comparative Politics and Democratic Theory.

Prof. Dr habil. Andrea PETŐ associate professor at the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Markian Prokopovych is an associate research fellow at Pasts Inc., Center for Historical Studies. His teaching and research focuses on cultural history of East Central Europe, and more broadly on urban history and modern European cultural history. He is a member of the International Committee for the European Association for Urban History (EAUH) and is involved in the editorial of several journals in the field.

Uwe Puetter is Professor at the Department of Public Policy. From 2006 to 2008 he served as the Department's first Head. Originally he had joined Central European University in September 2004 as an Assistant Professor of the newly created Master's Program in Public Policy (MPP). In the context of the degree programs of the Department Uwe Puetter is teaching courses on European integration, comparative politics and socio-economic governance.

Attila Rátfai is an associate professor in the Department of Economics, Central European University. His research interests are in various areas of macroeconomics. His current research focuses on the aggregate implications of heterogeneity and inaction in store-level pricing behavior and on the nature of international business cycle fluctuations.Attila received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also holds a University Diploma from the Budapest (former Karl Marx) University of Economics. Prior to joining to CEU, he worked at the University of Southampton.

Paul holds a PhD from the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Paul has been a Guest Researcher at the former Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI) and at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). He is Associate Professor and current Head of Department at IRES. 

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 is currently completing work on a PhD in English Renaissance Literature at Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem in Budapest. His work has appeared in Shakespeare Survey, Shakespearean International Yearbook, and Notes & Queries.

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; 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.

Vera is a PhD student at Political Science department, studying industrial development in East and Southern Europe under the influence of foreign direct investment. Her interests include development and foreign investment, dynamics of industrial development, labour relations and political economy of transition. Vera is also working as a research assistant in a number of international projects dealing with trajectories of industrial relations and socio-economic development models in Europe.

PhD Student in Department of Political Science, Central European University, Budapest. MA in International Relations and Contemporary Political Theory, Centre for the Study of Democracy, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster, London.

Diploma in Sociology and Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Prishtina, Prishtinë.

Nihat Sengul is a current PhD candidate in the International Relations and European Studies department at Central European University (CEU). His PhD research interests include nationalism studies and ethnic minority mobilization, specifically he compares Kurdish claim-making patterns in Turkey and Iraq vis-à-vis their host-states.
Nihat is from Turkey. He completed his BA and MA degrees in Izmir and Istanbul respectively. In his BA years, he got a scholarship from NATO for a study visit to Brussels. Before coming to CEU he completed his MA degree at Koc University in Istanbul where he got a full-scholarship to study in the department of International Relations and his focus was on the European Union and its Common Foreign and Security Policy.

Eniko is a probationary PhD student in DPP. She earned a BA from Middlebury College (2002) in Political Science and Spanish, and an MSc from the London School of Economics (2006) in Comparative Politics. Eniko has served as a Junior Professional at the World Bank, in the area of public administration reform and anti-corruption in Latin America. She has also worked for the European Commission, in DG Development and for the EC Delegation to Nigeria. More recently, she observed elections in Ghana and Ecuador for the Carter Center and the EU. For her dissertation, she plans to study the relationship between externally-regulated anti-corruption commissions, donor agencies and local politics in Africa. Her broader research interests include the politics of foreign aid and EU development policy.

Professor Nick Sitter is the Head of Department. His research interests include comparative European public policy, regulation, party systems, and Euroscepticism. Recent books include Understanding Public Management (Sage 2008) and Europe’s Nascent State Europe’s Nascent State (Gyldendal 2006).

 She is a first year Ph.D student in Political Science, Dept. of International Relations and European Studies (IRES) at Central European University (CEU), Budapest. She received her B.A in International Relations in Turkey. After receiving her MA degree in EU Studies from Dokuz Eylul University Turkey she has been awarded with full master scholarship by Swedish Institute to get her M.Sc degree in European Affairs at Lund University. During her master studies she has worked as an intern at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS) for 3 months and undertaken a research about legal and non-legal aspects of Europeanisation process in Turkey with a special focus on political actors. She has temporarily worked in national and international projects and participated to several international conferences. For her Ph. D project she is working on Europeanisation and politics of EU norm promotion in Turkey with a special focus on political elites 

Ph.D. (Syracuse University), MSc (University of Washington): Director of the Environmental Justice Program (EJP); Co-founder, China Initiative for Sustainable Development; Vice-President of the Executive Committee, Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)

Sara Svenson is a PhD candidate at CEU’s Department of Public Policy, researching policy formation and implementation in European cross-border regions. Her dissertation project is supervised by Andrew Cartwright. Before enrolling in the PhD program, she worked as Research Project Officer at the CEU Center for Policy Studies. She holds an MA in political science from CEU (1999) and a BA in journalism from Stockholm University (1997). She occasionally contributes to broadcast and print media in Sweden, and has worked at different locations as a news journalist for the public service broadcasting company Sveriges Radio.

Alina’s research focuses on the conflict and coexistence of large carnivores and people in the Romanian Carpathians. She is particularly interested in spatial and temporal patterns of conflict as well as the attitudes of various interest groups towards carnivores and their management. Before joining the PhD programme Alina studied and worked in Romania, Hungary, South Africa and the UK. Her professional experience spans the business, academic and NGO sectors and includes a diversity of roles from consulting, teaching and capacity building, to ecological surveys and project management. In her spare time she enjoys reading, hiking in the mountains, travelling and photography.

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 at the Legal Studies Department as well as the Business School of the Central European University. 

His research interest is primarily in voting behaviour and democratic institutions, and particularly the impact of the former on the latter. He is also interested in public opinion, survey methodology, and East European politics. He is co-author of Post-Communist Party Systems: Competition, Representation, and Inter-Party Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 1999), author or co-author of over five dozen articles on electoral behaviour, public opinion, political parties and democratic consolidation in edited volumes, political science and sociology journals.

 
 
 
Balázs Trencsényi has been teaching at CEU since 2004. He also serves as Co-Director of Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies. He is Associate Editor of East Central Europe, published by Brill. His main fields of interest are: history of political thought in Central and Southeastern Europe, history of historiography and nationalism studies. Currently he is Principal Investigator of the international research project, "Negotiating Modernity. History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe," supported by the European Research Council.

Renáta Uitz is chair of the Comparative Constitutional Law program. Her teaching covers subjects in comparative constitutional law in Europe and North America, transitional justice and human rights protection with special emphasis on the enforcement of constitutional rights and on issues of bodily privacy and sexuality.

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.

Tibor Várady is an internationally-recognized scholar and expert on international commercial arbitration, private international law, and international business transactions. He was on the faculty of the Novi Sad Law School in the former Yugoslavia and served as director of its Center for International Studies for many years. Since 1993 he is a professor at the Legal Studies Department of the Central European University in Budapest, and Chairman of the International Business Law Program.

Marcela Veselkova received her MA in International Relations and European Studies from Central European University (2005) and a master-level degree in Economics and Business Management from the University of Economics in Bratislava (2004). Marcela’s interests include the international monetary relations/international finance and economic history. Her PhD dissertation investigates the global imbalances from the historical perspective.

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.

Political, institutional and legal history of the Middle Ages, with a focus on Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe;
the 'Byzantine Commonwealth'