Tyler Conklin (CEU MA 2014, Currently at Yale University for a PhD in History (Early Modern Middle East) since 2014), After Completing my BA at the University of Minnesota in History I enrolled in the two-year MA History program at CEU. CEU's excellent scholarly environment, including both fellow students and faculty, greatly prepared me for my further endeavors in academia which I am currently pursuing at Yale University.

Y. Doğan Çetinkaya defended his MA thesis at CEU in 2004. He is currently a faculty member at Istanbul University. After CEU, he received his PhD at Leiden University (Netherlands) in 2010. In 2017 he became the vice-president of History Foundation, the largest independent organisation of historians in Turkey. He gives lectures and organises workshops in Free University-Istanbul since 2010. In 2012-2013 he was a visiting scholar at Panteion University in Athens.

Ana-Teodora Kurkina (MA 2013; since 2014 PhD Student, Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich/University of Regensburg).

Vladimir Petrović (MA 2005, PhD 2009, currently Senior Academic Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Europe, Boston University and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade) 

M. Fatih Calisir completed two MA programs, one on Comparative History of Central Europe at CEU and the other on Ottoman History at Bilkent University (2009). Before enrolling in Early Modern European History PhD Program at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, he worked as an assistant expert at the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. His research interests include early modern history of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman cultural history, and environmental history.

Maria Falina (MA 2005, PhD 2011) currently is lecturer in modern European history at the School of History and Geography, Dublin City University. Prior to her current position, she was lecturer and postdoc fellow at the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin.

Kateryna Dysa defended her PhD dissertation at CEU in 2004. Currently she is an Associate Professor at National University of 'Kyiv-Mohyla Academy'. She is also the director of the Center for Polish and European Studies of NaUKMA. In 2009 she was a Chopivsky Fellow in Ukrainian Studies at Stanford University, and in 2011 she was a Shklar Research Fellow at Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. In 2010 she was a Research Fellow of the project The "centre" and the "periphery" in the religious history of early modern Eastern Europe at L'Institut d'Etudes Avancées, Paris.

Katherine Sorrels received her MA from CEU in 2000. She is currently Associate Professor of the History at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. She chose to attend CEU after studying in a similar international environment at the University of Graz during her undergraduate study. In the words of Sorrels, "I've benefitted tremendously from my year at CEU. First of all, I took a range of excellent courses in history and several of the interdisciplinary programs (e.g., Gender Studies and Nationalism Studies).

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.

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.