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".
Goran Miljan (CEU History PhD) successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Young, Militarized, and Radical: The Ustasha Youth Organization, Ideology, and Practice, 1941-1945” with Summa Cum Laude on Friday, January 29, 2016.
Yulia Karpova, an alumna of our department and currently a visiting faculty member, was awarded a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship. The host institution is the School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. During this 24-months Fellowship Yulia plans to do research on "biographies" of late Soviet objects through the areas of design, production, and consumption, as well as the influence of Scandinavian design in the Soviet Union in the 1950s-1980s.
This essay reconstructs a scandal in the fall of 1797 involving Ottoman governors, leaders of a notorious network of irregular soldiers cum bandits, and residents of the city of Filibe (Plovdiv in Bulgaria). It erupted over whether or not state officials should pacify successful bandit enterprises by co-opting their leaders. The scandal escalated into a crisis in which the large armies of the governors of Anatolia and Rumeli (the Ottoman Balkans) verged on clashing because each wanted to lead the state's lucrative war against Rumeli bandit networks.
