Cody James Inglis is a Doctoral Candidate at the Doctoral School of History, Central European University, as well as a Research Affiliate with the Democracy in History Research Group at the CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest. Inglis also serves as an Assistant Editor for the "History of Ideas" section of the Review of Democracy. From 2018 to 2023, he was a Junior Researcher on the ERC Consolidator Grant project "Negotiating post-imperial transitions" (NEPOSTRANS, PI: Gábor Egry), hosted by the Institute of Political History in Budapest.
His doctoral work focuses on the history of republican political thought in Hungary and Yugoslavia from the collapse of the Habsburg Empire to the consolidation of state socialist regimes in Central and Southeastern Europe. His larger research focuses on the development of radical democratic theory in the Habsburg Empire and its successor states from the late eighteenth century to the late twentieth. On this final topic, he participates in the project "Re-imagining Democracy in Central and Northern Europe" (2022–2027) led by Joanna Innes (Oxford) and Mark Philp (Warwick).
His texts have been published in European Review of History, History of European Ideas, and Múltunk. With Gábor Egry and the NEPOSTRANS team, Inglis co-wrote the monograph Momentous Times and Ordinary People: Life on the Ruins of Austria-Hungary (Budapest: Napvilág, 2023). He is currently co-editing the volume Discourses of Transition in (post-)Habsburg East Central Europe, 1914–1941: Ideas, Concepts, Discourses, and Theories with Elisabeth Haid-Lener, the research volume of the NEPOSTRANS "Discourses of Transition" work package. Further texts soon to be published in Ivan Sablin and Egas Moniz-Bandeira, eds., From Empire to Federation: Ideas and Practices of Diversity Management in Eurasia, 1876–1949 (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming) as well as Isidora Grubački and Marko Zajc, eds., Political Transformations in the Interwar Period: The Case of Slovenian Political Thought from Yugoslav and Transnational Perspectives (Ljubljana: Institute of Contemporary History, forthcoming).
His research has been funded by the Central European University Foundation, the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, the European Research Council (through the NEPOSTRANS project), the Institute of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, as well as the International Visegrad Fund.
