We are very pleased to welcome two new faculty this academic year, with Juliane Fürst and Alíz Horváth both joining our department in September 2024. Chronologically, thematically and geographically, they are enhancing our research interests, student supervision, and teaching offer.
Juliane Fürst is an historian of the Soviet and Post-Soviet space with a special interest in non-conformism, dissent, and youth culture, as well as the histories of emotions and personal experience and subjectivities. Her professorship at CEU is a joint appointment with the Center of Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam, where she is co-head of the ‘Communism and Society’ department. Prof. Fürst will begin teaching in the Winter term, with a course on The Wild East. Taking a New Look at the 1990s in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Space.
We appointed Aliz Horvath as assistant professor in Historical Studies and Digitial Humanites in conjunction with the Eurasian Transformations Cluster of Excellence. Aliz joins us from ELTE in Budapest, after completing her PhD at the University of Chicago. This academic year, she will teach courses in Digital Humantities and East Asia history, as well as contributing to our new Advanced Certificate in Digitial Humanities. She interested in the mechanisms of transnational flows within and beyond East Asia (with a focus on Japan, China, and Korea). She is also an avid advocate of linguistic diversity in digital humanities and has published multiple articles on language inclusivity in DH, and on the challenges and potential points for collaboration in digital East Asian studies.