History alumna Katalin Straner, appointed Lecturer at the History Department of University of Southampton

History alumna (MA 2005, PhD 2013) and former visiting lecturer (2014-16) Katalin Straner will be joining the Department of History at the University of Southampton as Lecturer in Modern European History (East-Central European History) in September 2017. Currently a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, She is a historian of modern Europe, with a focus on the history of science, urban history, the translation and reception of Darwinism in Hungary, and the effect of migration and exile on knowledge transfer.