The recipients of CEU's 2025 PhD Awards have been announced, including doctoral students in our department. Jack Wilson and Janos Galamb have all been recognised for their outstanding performance in research, whilst Furkan Berkant Yavuz and Olga Vlachou are recognised for their performance in coursework and comprehensive exams in the first year of their PhD.
Jack Wilson works on the Mongol Golden Horde. His most recent publication is "European-Mongol Relations as an Aspect of Golden Horde Border Policies and Foreign Relations, 1242–1313,” in Micae Medievales XIII: Fiatal történészek dolgozatai a középkori Magyarországról és Európáról, edited by Hunyadi Sándor, et al., He completed his MA at CEU in 2021, and is supervised in his doctoral work by Balázs Nagy and József Laszlovszky.
Janos Galamb also graduated from an MA at CEU (2019) before starting his research on Ḥadīth culture in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean. His research is supervised by Tijana Krstić.
Berkant Yavuz works on intellectual history, modern and contemporary history and modern Turkish history. He is supervised by M. Brett Wilson.
Olga Vlachou works on the social networks and prosopography of twelfth-century Byzantium, using digital humanities tools. Her research is supervised by Baukje van den Berg, Robyn Dora Radway and, as an external supervisor from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller.
We are very proud of all the recipents, would like to warmly congratulate them on their achievements, and look forward to seeing where their research takes them.