History doctoral students, Oscar Mulej and Alexandra Medzibrodszky, received prestigious CEU doctoral awards. Oscar Mulej is one of the recipients of the Award for Advanced Doctoral Students for his outstanding research work. Mulej joined the doctoral program in 2011 and his dissertation topic is "Interwar Perspectives on (Post-)Liberalism in Central Europe: the Czech, Austrian and Slovene national liberal heirs, 1918-1934". Alexandra Medzibrodszky earned the Academic Achievement Award for First-Year Doctoral Students for her outstanding coursework and performance during the comprehensive exam. Medzibrodszky is a second year PhD student and her main research interest is Russian intellectual history in the 19th-20th century, with a focus on religion and politics.