Selected Alumni Profiles

Agnes Kelemen

Agnes completed her Ph.D. at CEU's History Department in 2019. In her dissertation she investigated the connection between academic antisemitism, social mobility and migration through a sociological study of the “numerus clausus exiles” (students who left interwar Hungary due to the antisemitic law restricting Jewish access to higher education). Examining this interwar migratory movement of Jewish youth who often saw themselves as refugees escaping antisemitism brought Agnes to the topic of refugees in a more literal sense.

Kateryna Pasichnyk

Kateryna Pasichnyk is a PhD Candidate of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. The focus of her current research is on the transformation of values in the eighteenth-century medical community of the Russian Empire and their manifestations within physicians’ activities and interactions with each other and laymen. 

"What I like about CEU: considerable support throughout each step of one's academic journey as well as a life-long feeling of belonging to the CEU community."

Anastasiia Strakhova

Anastasiia Strakhova (MA) is a Perilman Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Center for Jewish Studies at Duke University. After CEU, she completed her PhD at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) in 2022 with a dissertation entitled “Selective Emigration: Border Control and the Jewish Escape in Late Imperial Russia, 1881-1914.”

James Gresock

I graduated from CEU’s 2-year MA program in Comparative History in 2017 with an advanced certificate in Religious Studies. My time at CEU had a profound influence on my work, both by encouraging intensive academic rigor, and in shaping my historical perspective. I am now a PhD student in the University of Minnesota’s History Department where I work with their Center for Austrian Studies researching the impacts of propagandistic media on historical memory.

Levente Olosz

Levente Olosz completed his MA at the Department of History in 2015. The title of his thesis was "Facts and Debates about the Integration of the Hungarian Speaking Jews into Israeli Society (1948-1955)". Currently, he is a PhD student of the Károly Eszterházy University in Eger. His current project concerns the history of Zionism in Transylvania.