Notes on Contributors
Ágoston Berecz
received his PhD from Central European University in 2017. He is currently a Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of The Politics of Early Language Teaching: Hungarian in the Primary Schools of the Late Dual Monarchy (2013). His research concerns the relationship between language and nationalism, as well as the history of nineteenth-century Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on Transylvania.
Carl Bethke
is Junior Professor for Southeast European History at the University of Tübingen. His research interests are the late Habsburg Monarchy, Yugoslavia, nationalism, ethnic minorities, and confessions. He is the author of (K)eine gemeinsame Sprache? Aspekte deutsch-jüdischer Beziehungsgeschichte in Slawonien. Vom Zusammenleben zum Holocaust, 1900–1950 (2013) and Deutsche und ungarische Minderheiten in Kroatien und der Vojvodina 1918–1941: Identitätsentwürfe und ethnopolitische Mobilisierung (2009).
István Csernicskó
is Full Professor at the University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary. He works on language education, educational policy, sociolinguistics, as well as memory politics, with a particular emphasis on the region of Transcarpathia. He is the author of several publications in English (some co-authored with Csilla Fedinec) on language law and policy in Ukraine and the reconceptualization of memory after the Revolution of Dignity.
Csilla Fedinec
is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Her research interests include Transcarpathia in the twentieth century, history and politics in Ukraine, and historical minority politics in Central and Eastern Europe. Her most recent publications (some co-authored with István Csernicskó) deal with the recent language laws of Ukraine. She is the editor of Hungary’s Neighbors as Kin-States: Political, Scholarly and Scientific Relations Between Hungary’s Neighbors and Their Respective Minorities (2016).
Jan Fellerer
is Associate Professor in Non-Russian Slavonic Languages and a Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He specializes in Slavonic linguistics, in particular the history of Polish, Czech, and Ukrainian, with special reference to the modern period from the late eighteenth century to the present day. He has written on topics in Slavonic syntax, language theory, Galicia, hybrid cultural identities in East Central Europe, and multilingual states and empires in European history.
Pieter M. Judson
is Professor of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century History at the European University Institute in Florence. His research interests include the history of European Empires, borderlands, national indifference in modern Europe, and the history of sexuality. His most recent book The Habsburg Empire: A New History (2016) has been translated into eleven languages. Currently he is co-editing the Cambridge History of the Habsburg Monarchy.
Anamarija Lukić
has a PhD in history and is currently a research associate at the Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Science, Regional Centre Osijek. She is the author of several articles on everyday language practices in the town of Osijek in the first half of the twentieth century and on modern and contemporary local history of Slavonia and the Baranja region of Croatia.
Irina Marin
is Assistant Professor in Political History at Utrecht University. Her areas of research are Eastern and Central European history, borderland studies, rural history, and the history of social violence. She is the author of two books: Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg Rivalries in Eastern Europe (2013) and Peasant Violence and Antisemitism in Early Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe (2018).
Markian Prokopovych
is Assistant Professor in Modern European Cultural History at Durham University. He is the author of Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772–1914 (2009), In the Public Eye: The Budapest Opera House, the Audience and the Press, 1884–1918 (2014), and a number of articles in cultural and urban history of the Habsburg Empire.
Tamara Scheer
is a lecturer and research associate at the Institute for East European History, University of Vienna. She is the author of several articles and monographs on the late Habsburg Monarchy focusing on language use, identities, and loyalties during the First World War, the Habsburg monarchy’s Balkan engagement, nationalism and the role of the Catholic Church in the long nineteenth century, as well as Habsburg legacies after 1918.
Rok Stergar
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Ljubljana and a historian of the Habsburg Empire in the long nineteenth century, the First World War, and the history of nationalism. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on nationalisms in the Habsburg Empire, the Habsburg military, and Austro-Hungarian soldier experience in the First World War. He is currently working on a book on the history of Slovene nationalism.
Jeroen van Drunen
is a PhD graduate of the University of Amsterdam and an independent scholar residing in Hungary. His area of expertise is the history of Bukovina in the nineteenth and twentieth century. He is the author of A Sanguine Bunch: Regional Identification in Habsburg Bukovina, 1774–1919 (2015) and is currently working on a book on fellow travellers of socialist Romania in the early 1950s.
Marta Verginella
is Full Professor of History at the University of Ljubljana. Currently she is leading the ERC Advanced Grant EIRENE Project (2017–2022). She is the author of Il confine degli altri. La questione giuliana e la memoria slovena (2008), La guerra di Bruno. L’ identità di confine di un antieroe triestino e sloveno (2015), and Terre e lasciti. Pratiche testamentarie nel contado triestino fra Otto e Novecento (2017).
Matthäus Wehowski
is a PhD graduate of the Institute for East European History and Regional Studies of the Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen. He is currently a research fellow at the Hannah Arendt Institute for the Research on Totalitarianism at the Technical University of Dresden. His research interests are twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe with a particular focus on nationalization, and religious and media history in the interwar period. His dissertation thesis is “Between Cross and Flag—Catholic Mobilization and the Rise of Nationalism in Slavonia and Eastern Silesia (1922–1929).”