Doctoral students at the Contemporary and Comparative History PhD-Programme conduct various research projects both in the Hungarian- and the English-language training. Here are our PhD-students introducing themselves briefly.
Student admitted in 2015
Veronika Szakál
Research topic: The History of Public Opinion Research in Hungary, 1960–1980
e-mail: verszak@gmail.com
Students admitted in 2016
Borbála Klacsmann
Research topic: the restitution and compensation of Hungarian Holocaust survivors
Fields of interest: microhistory of the Holocaust, long-term consequences of the Holocaust
e-mail: bklacsmann@gmail.com
Eliza Pap
Research topic: History of the Jewish community in Újpest (1938–1945)
Fields of interest: museum, community work, reading, running, hiking, folk dance and folk music
e-mail: pap.eliza23@gmail.com
Islam Sargi
Research topic: The Kurdish Political Movement and the Universities in Turkey, 1960–1980
e-mail: iszeged509@gmail.com
Students admitted in 2017
Anastas Bezha
Research topic: The Austro-Hungarian Invasion Zone in Albania During WWI
e-mail: anastasbezha@yahoo.com
Jérémy Floutier
Research topic: Transylvania’s Image in Hungary and Romania Through Education Between 1945 and 1990
e-mail: jeremy.floutier@hotmail.fr
Oszkár Gorcsa
Research topic: History of the Serbian POWs in Hungary during WWI
Fields of interest: history of WWI, history of Austria–Hungary, ethnic movements in Austria–Hungary
e-mail: gorcsa6@gmail.com
Ádám Lengyel
Research topic: The Doctrine and Practice of the American Combat Search and Rescue Operations
Fields of interest: modern military history, history of the United States, Cold War, contemporary conflicts, history of terrorism
e-mail: adamlengyel92@gmail.com
Students admitted in 2018
Dmytro Bondarenko
Research topic: The Monarchist Counter-revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, 1918–1920: A Comparative Analysis
Fields of interest: history of revolutions and counter-revolutions, dissolution of the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian empires, nation-state building in Central and Eastern Europe, WWI
E-mail: dbond70@gmail.com
Bence Mezey
Research topic: Armed conflicts in the Far-East (Malaysia, Indochina, Vietnam) from 1945 to 1975
Fields of interest: civil-military cooperation, COIN strategies
E-mail: mezeybence@gmail.com
Levente Gábor Szabó
Research topic: Comparative analysis of authoritarian regimes: Japan and the European illiberal regimes
Fields of interest: history of Japan, military history, history of globalization, history of technology
e-mail: levriker@gmail.com
Students admitted in 2019
Gönder, Hasan
Research topic: Modernization and Professionalization in Turkey’s Rural Areas
Fields of interest: Turkish, Hungarian and Chinese political history in the 20th century
Szandra Kiss
Research topic: Space Age, Space Race, and Cold War Propaganda
Fields of interest: history of the Soviet Union, history of Cold War, propaganda in the 20th century
e-mail: bundijo@gmail.com
Students admitted in 2020
Research topic: Czechoslovak political trials and state security relations between Czechoslovakia and Hungary from 1948 to 1954
Máté Domján
Research topic: Evolution of the United States Marine Corps’ amphibious operations
Fields of interest: military history, history of the first and the second world war, history of the USA
e-mail: domjan.mate@gmail.com
Student admitted in 2021
