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Education:

Hungarian academy doctorate (kandidatura) in history, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1996

PhD (Hungarian university doctorate) in history, ELTE University of Budapest, 1987

State Teacher's License, 1976, ELTE University of Budapest

Doctoral dissertation:

Az értelmiségi szervezetek politikája Magyarországon, 1867-1948 (The politics of professional organizations in Hungary, 1867-1948). An expanded versin of the dissertation was published in book form by Oxford University Press in 1994.

Positions:

Director, Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University, Spring 1997 to present

Recurrent Visiting Associate Professor of History, Central European University, Spring 1996 to Spring 1997

Associate Professor of Modern European History, University of Madison, Wisconsin, 1996

Assistant Professor of Modern European History, University of Madison-Wisconsin, 1992-1996

Permanent Research Fellow, Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1984 to the present

Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Budapest,

1991-1992

Visiting Professor, University of Maryland, Summer, 1991

Visiting Professor, University of Maryland, Spring 1990

Editor, The Academy Publishing House, Budapest, 1976-1984

Major Research Grants:

Visiting Scholar, The Russell Sage Foundation, New York. Spring-Summer 1989.

Fellow, East European Program, The Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C. Fall, 1987 - Fall, 1988.

Visiting Scholar, Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia University, Spring, 1987

Visiting Scholar, CNRS, Paris, Summer, 1985

Research Fellow, Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia University, New York. Spring, 1983.

List of Publications

MONOGRAPHS

Liberalizmus, Radikalizmus, Antiszemitizmus Helikon Kiado, Budapest, 2001

Liberal Professions and Illiberal Politics: Hungary from the Habsburgs to the Holocaust, Oxford University Press, 1994.

Co-authored with Antal Örkény: Káderek (Cadres of Communism) Szociológiai füzetek, Budapest, 1990.

Studies in Hungarian Social History, Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia University, 1987.

EDITED VOLUME:

Mária M. Kovács and Ferenc Erös (eds.), A zsidó identitás problémái, (Problems of Jewish Identity -- in post-Communist Eastern Europe), Budapest, Twins Publishers, 1992.

Friedrich Engels, A munkásosztály helyzete Angliában, Forrásértékü egykoru illusztrációkkal. A képeket Kovács M. Mária válogatta és magyarázta. (The Condition of the Working Class in England. With contemporary illustrations selected by Maria M. Kovács) Európa Kiadó, Budapest, 1987

With Petr Lom, CEU Nationalism Studies Yearbook, to appear in 2000

BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES

"Ambiguities of Emancipation: Women and the Ethnic Question in Hungary", Kevin Passmore (ed.) Women, Gender and the Extreme Right in Europe, 1918- 1945, Routledge, scheduled to appear in 2001.

"Democratic Transitions and External Norms of Minority Protection", scheduled to appear in CEU Nationalism Studies Yearbook, 2000

"Standards of self-determination and minority protection in the post-Soviet era" to appear in Nationalities Papers, Spring, 2000

"Nemzeti onrendelkezes es politikai szabadsag" (National Self-Determination and Political Freedom), Vilagossag,1998/2

"Antiszemitizmus és politika" (Anti-Semitism and Politics) Mozgo Vilag, Spring, 1998

"The numerus clausus debate of 1924", in Randolph Braham and Attila Pok (eds.) The Holocaust in Hungary, Fifty Years Later, Social Science Monographs, Columbia University Press, 1998

"A kisebbségek nemzetközi jogvédelmének politikai csapdája" (The ambiguities in the concept of the international protection of minorities), Beszélö, Vol. 5, No. 14, (April 7, 1994), pp. 28-31.

"A kisebbségek nemzetközi jogvédelme" (On the international protection of minorities), in: Vázsonyi Vilmos Emlékezete, AB Beszélö Kiadó, 1995, 31-38. old.

"A numerus clausus és az orvosi antiszemitizmus a huszas években" (The numerus clausus and anti-Semitism in the medical profession in the 1920s), Budapesti Negyed, Summer, 1995, pp. 137 - 158.

"Ritoók Emma 'Nil'-hez" (Emma Ritoók on Budapest intellectuals), Budapesti Negyed, Summer, 1995, pp. 159 - 168.

"Ethnicity and Nationhood", Books, Vol. 4, No.2, Summer, 1994, pp. 84-88.

"A magyar feminizmus korszakfordulója" (The transformation of Hungarian feminism) Café Bábel, No. 11. (1-2/1994), pp. 179-185.

"The Politics of Emancipation in Hungary", History Department Working Paper Series, 1. Central European University Press, Budapest, 1994, pp. 81-85.

"Jews and Hungarians: A View after Communism", Occasional Paper, East European Studies, No. 35, The Woodrow Wilson Center, 1992.

"Interwar Anti-Semitism in the Professions: The Case of the Engineers" in Michel K. Silber, ed., Jews in the Hungarian Economy, 1760-1945. Studies Dedicated to Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger on His Eightieth Birthday, Hebrew University Press, Jerusalem 1992.

"A liberalizmus két utja" (The two roads of liberalism), Világosság, vol. 32, no. 6 (June 1991), pp. 426-433.

"Jews and Hungarians: A View after Communism", Occasional Paper, East European Studies, No. 35, The Woodrow Wilson Center, 1992.

"Hányadik gabonaszem?" (on the Historikerstreit), BUKSZ (Budapesti Könyvszemle), vol. 3, no. 3 (Fall 1991), pp. 340-343.

"The Ideology of Illiberalism in the Professions: Leftist and Rightist Radicalism Among Hungarian Doctors, Lawyers and Engineers, 1918 - 1945", European History_Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2 (April 1991), pp. 185-208.

"Lawyers against Anti-Semitism and the Liberal Response in Interwar Hungary" in Yehuda Don and Victor Karady, eds., Social and Economic History of Central European Jewry, Transaction Books, New Brunswick (U.S.A.) and London (U.K.), 1990.

"Hungarian Women Entering the Professions: Feminist Pressures from Left to Right", in Victor Karady and Wolfgang Mitter, eds., Education and Social Structure in Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Böhlau Verlag, Köln--Wien, 1990.

Co-authored with László Varga

"A magyarországi zsidóság gazdaságtörténetéröl" (On the economic history of Hungarian Jews), Történelmi Szemle, vol. 42, nos. 2-3 (1987-88), pp. 249-255.

"Official Anti-Semitism and Professional Associations in Interwar Hungary", Danubian Historical Studies, vol 1, no. 2 (1987), pp. 47-55.

Co-authored with Antal Örkény

"Cadres and professionals in post-war Hungary", in Rudolf Andorka and László Bertalan, eds., Economy and Society in_Hungary, Budapest, 1986.

"Antiszemitizmus és liberális ellenállás az ügyvédi szervezetekben" (Anti-Semitism and liberal response in the Hungarian legal profession), Medvetánc, vol. 5, nos. 2-3 (1985), pp. 91-99.

"Luttes professionelles et antisémitisme: chronique de la montée du fascisme dans le corps medical Hongrois, 1920-1944", Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, no. 56 (March 1985), pp. 31-45.

"Aesculapius militans: érdekvédelem és politika az orvosok körében, 1920-1945" (Aesculapius militans: the politics of the Hungarian medical profession, 1920-1944), Valóság, vol. 28, no. 8 (August 1985), pp. 69-82.

Second Publication: Magyarország társadalomtörténete , 1920-1944 (Hungarian Social History, 1920-1944) Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 1994, pp. 493-507.

"Közalkalmazottak: létszám, összetétel, politika, 1938-1948" (The social composition and interest-representation of the Hungarian civil service, 1938-1948), Valóság, vol. 25, no. 9 (September 1982), pp. 41-53.

Co-authored with Antal Örkény

"Itthagyom ezt az egész cirkuszt, és elmegyek a Kommunista Pártba! Interju Juhász Sándorral" (I will leave this bloody mess and join the Communist Party. An interview with Sándor Juhász), Mozgó Világ, vol. 8, no. 3 (March 1982), pp. 3-16.

Co-authored with Antal Örkény

"Szakérettségisek" (Graduates of the Red Academies), Mozgó Világ, vol. 7, no. 5 (May 1981), pp. 102-110.

Shorter Essays

"A nemzeti önrendelkezés csapdája" (The ambiguities of the self-determination of nations), Népszabadság, 1995. augusztus 12.

"A nagy utazás egyvágányu vasuton" (comment on Ivan T. Berend's article on the Holocaust) Magyar Hirlap, September 10, 1994.

"Az utolsó háboru utópiája" (Woodrow Wilson and the Utopia of the Last War) Népszabadság, Dec. 10, 1994

"Konrad Adenauer, Rendszerváltás német módra" (Konrad Adenauer, Transition German Style" Népszabadság, July 16, 1994.

"A gyülölködés fanatikusa: Adolf Hitler pályája I." (The Fanatic of Hate: Adolf Hitler, a Political Biography) Népszabadság, Jan. 25, 1992, p. 23.

"A propaganda cinikus mesetere: Adolf Hitler pályája II." (The Cynical Master of Propaganda: Adolf Hitler, a Political Biography) Népszabadság, Feb.1, 1992, p. 23.

"Hány kamara kell az orvosoknak" (On recent political conflicts in the medical profession), Magyar Hirlap, May 18, 1991.

"Intellectuals and Politics", Partisan Review, 1991, no. 4, pp. 665-669.

"Le grand bazar de Budapest", Belvedere (Revue européenne du groupe Express), vol. 1, no. 2 (June-July 1991), pp. 97-99.

"Hungary's New Twist: An Exchange", The New York Review of Books, November 24, 1988, pp. 46-47.