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Selected Alumni Profiles

Máté Rigó

February 10, 2014
Selected Alumni Profiles

Máté Rigó (MA 2009, Assistant Professor, Yale NUS college). "CEU has one of the strongest concentrations of scholars working on East-Central Europe within Anglo-American academia, and as I was committed to study the history of the region I decided to apply. My year as an M.A. student at the CEU History Department enabled me to achieve a thorough grounding in regional historiography, and become familiar with multiple perspectives, theories and methods of writing history, ranging from intellectual, urban and cultural history.

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Jaroslav Miller

February 10, 2014
Selected Alumni Profiles

Jaroslav Miller completed his doctoral studies at CEU in 2004, having begun as an MA student in 1996. He is currently the Rector of Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. He has twice been appointed an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (2006 in Marburg, 2010 in Münster), and in 2008 was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Georgia, USA. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he held a Guest Professorship at the University of Western Australia in Perth and is a 2012 nominee for the Gerda Henkel Prize.

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Bojan Aleksov

February 10, 2014
Selected Alumni Profiles

Bojan Aleksov received his PhD at CEU and is now associate professor at University College London School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies. Prior to his current position, he was a Humboldt Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin and a Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

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Liliya Berezhnaya

February 6, 2014
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Liliya Berezhnaya (PhD 2004) has worked for Pasts Inc. Center for Historical Studies at CEU and was a post-doctoral fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich for two years. Since 2009 she has been directing the project "Religion and Politics" in the Cluster of Excellency at the University of Münster within her habilitation track. Parallel to that she teaches East European history in the History Department at the University of Münster.

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