Jian Zhang (MA in Comparative History, CEU 2015, currently a first-year PhD student in International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University).

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 lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin). 

Joshua Neese-Todd (MA, CEU 2014; currently PhD student in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania). When I came to Budapest in 2012, I had a BA in English Literature and a few years work experience. My time at CEU not only gave me the tools I needed to work as a historian, but the vision and direction needed to put those tools to use. I believe that the History program at CEU excels because the intellectual diversity of its faculty and student body is mirrored in equal measure by their commitment to working across regional fields.

Y. Doğan Çetinkaya defended his MA thesis at CEU in 2004. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Istanbul University in the Faculty of Political Sciences. After CEU, he received his PhD at Leiden University (Netherlands) in 2010. He is a member of the board of directors at History Foundation and the director of Research Center for Labour and Society Studies (ReCLASS) in Istanbul. In 2012-2013 he was a visiting scholar at Panteion University in Athens. Among his other publications his book has been released in 2014 from I.B.

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.

Ana Sekulic (MA 2013; since 2013 PhD Student, Princeton University). After finishing my BA at Wesleyan University, I enrolled in the one-year MA at CEU's Department of History. I chose CEU because of the excellent reputation of the program and its faculty members.

Máté Rigó (MA 2009, PhD candidate, Cornell University). "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.

Adam Mestyan completed his PhD at CEU in 2011, and he is currently Assistant Professor of History at Duke University. Previous to his appointment he was Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University and taught in the Middle East Centre of St Antony's College, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He chose CEU because "it offered a US-accredited education and a window to international scholarship.