Ágoston Berecz, PhD

He has worked at INZ since 2024.

Curriculum Vitae

• Education
  • 2017. PhD in Comparative History, Central European University, Budapest
  • 2012. MA in Comparative History, Department of History, Central European University
  • 1999. degree (~ MA) in Hungarian Philology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
• Employment
  • 2020–2021, 2023. Central European University, Budapest
  • 2004–2010. CEU Bookshop, Budapest
  • 2000–2004. Library of Hungarian Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

 

Research Interests

• Areas of research
  • Social, political and cultural history of East-Central and Southeastern Europe in the long nineteenth century, with a focus on Dualist Hungary.
  • The history of nationalism, language ideologies, linguistic standardization, language and educational policies, memory politics and state building.
• Collaboration in research programmes
  • Principal Investigator of ERC project BeNaSta
  • Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820

Mobility and fellowships

2023–2024. Guest Researcher, Slovak Academy of Sciences Institute of Social Sciences, Košice

2023. ENTAN short-term scientific mission, Cluj

2021–2022. research fellowship, Imre Kertész Kolleg, Jena

2020–2021. in-residence fellowship, Center for Advanced Study, Sofia

2018–2019. Max Weber Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence

2016. Doctoral Research Support Grant from CEU, Leiden University

2015–2016. NEC International Fellowship, New Europe College, Bucharest

1999. Galego summer language course organized by the Xunta de Galicia, University of Santiago de Compostela

Educational activity: 

2018. Visiting Professor, Department of Economic and Social History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

2017–2018. Visiting Professor, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest
Scientific networks

Research Group History of National Diversity (HiND)
Awards & recognition

2017. Summa cum laude, Central European University, Budapest

2013. excellence award for the best first-year doctoral student in history, Central European University

2012. Hanák Prize for the best history MA thesis, Central European University

1992. first prize, Who Knows More About Hungary? national student history competition (in a team of three)
Selected publications

Empty Signs, Historical Imaginaries: The Entangled nationalization of names and naming in a late Habsburg borderland. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020

The Politics of Early Language Teaching: Hungarian in the primary schools of the late Dual Monarchy. Budapest: Past, Inc., Central European University, 2014 (distributed by CEU Press)