Profiles of CEU Researchers

Dr. Antypas joined CEU in 2000. His research interest includeGlobal environmental governance, Environmental policy change and transformation, Human rights and the environment and Science-policy studies. Prior to joining CEU, he worked for Civic Education Project as a visiting professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Rezekne in Latvia and served as a consultant to UNDP, UNEP, the US Forest Service, the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe.

Alexander Astrov received his MA in History from Central European University. He obtained his PhD in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Andrzej Baniak is an associate professor in the Department of Economics of Central European University. His research interests are in law and econonmics, institutional economics and microeconomic theory. His current research focuses on welfare level of the institutional harmonization, vagueness of law, and the relationship between social norms and law.Andrzej received his Ph.D. from European University Institute in Florence in 1996. He also holds an M.A. from Central European University (1992). Before coming to CEU, he worked at the University of Liverpool, and in Wroclaw University of Economics.

Károly Bárd is professor, chair of the Human Rights Program and co-director (with Renáta Uitz) of the clinical specialization at CEU Legal Studies Department. He started his career at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Between 1990 and 1997 he served as vice-minister and later as deputy state secretary in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Hungary.

Rositsa Bateson teaches in the Higher Education Policy and Management Stream of the Department of Public Policy. She is also Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Higher Education Management and Policy at the University of Southampton, UK.
Previously Vice President of Student Services at CEU (2000-2009), she is now Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of Abertay Dundee (UK) where she is responsible for student recruitment, corporate communications, international academic partnerships, student services, alumni relations, fundraising, central registry, library services and IT services for the University.  

Robin has been teaching academic writing for graduate students at CEU since 1999, and has also taught undergraduate academic writing at Corvinus University, Budapest, since 2004. Prior to coming to Budapest, he lived and worked in Spain, Portugal, Hong Kong, and Colombia. At CEU Robin works with the Legal Studies, IRES, History and Nationalism departments. Robin has delivered outreach courses on academic writing for masters, PhD students or professional researchers at the Hungarian Central bank and in other countries such as Lithuania, Estonia, Holland, and training for junior faculty and PhD students in Russia and FR of Yugoslavia. Robin represents the CEU and the Centre for Academic Writing in the FIESOLE Group. His interest, apart from academic writing, is teacher training. His hobbies include sports and games of all types but he now has two young children.

Magdalena is a PhD student at Political Science Department. She holds an MA degree in European Studies from Adam Mickiewicz Uniwersity, Poland, and in Political Science from Central European University.
Magdalena's dissertation focuses on transnational cooperation between trade unions from Western and Central-Eastern Europe. Her other research interests include industrial relations in Europe, labor and postcommunist transition and political economy of EU's Eastern enlagrement.

Dr Daniel Bochsler joined DISC in Fall 2009 after defending his PhD at the University of Geneva (2008), specializing in the effects of electoral systems on party systems in post-communist democracies, mediated by party nationalisation. His research centres on political parties, elections and direct democracy, focusing on young democracies and on Switzerland. His publications include articles in Electoral Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, the European Yearbook for Minority Issues, Public Choice, Regional & Federal Studies, and the Swiss Political Science Review. His new monograph (Territory and Electoral Rules in Post-Communist Democracies) is forthcoming with Palgrave.
Check Daniels webpage on www.bochsler.eu

Judit Bodnar is on leave Winter, Spring 2010
 

György Bőgel works at CEU Business School as Professor of Management. He launched project-based action learning courses in 2001. He teaches courses on organizational behavior, outsourcing and entrepreneurship plus participates in many company projects at the school’s executive education unit. His main research field is the influence of technological development on management structures and processes.

András Bozóki teaches democratization studies, political change, revolution, modernization and development, political ideologies, comparative East Central European politics, elite theory, the political role of intellectuals and other topics in political sociology at Central European University. He studied law, government, and sociology in ELTE Budapest (1978-85) and later at UCLA as junior visiting fellow (1988-9) before completing his PhD in Political Science at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1992. He habilitated at ELTE in 2003 .

Zoltán Buzády is Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at the CEU Business School.  He has a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the London School of Economics, a Master in Business Administration degree from Cass Business School, London, and a Ph.D. in Strategy and Organization from the Corvinus University of Budapest, as well as management consulting experience and entrepreneurial experiences. He has been teaching at the University of Passau, on MBA and Executive MBA programs of Mannheim-ESSEC, Corvinus University and CEU Business School during the last 10 years.
He has gained experience in various business consulting and management coaching projects.

Andrew Cartwright works at the Center for Policy Studies.  His research concentrates on social and econonomic development in rural areas, especially former socialist ones.  His PhD was on implementing land reform in Romania.  At the DPP, he teaches Rural Development Policy and runs the Policy Labs course.

Archaeozoology

Benjamin W. Cramer is Visiting Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Department of Legal Studies. He last worked at Pennsylvania State University, USA where he taught a senior-level course in mass media law and worked as a researcher for the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment. His doctoral dissertation dealt with government transparency and environmental law in the USA. He has also been noted for his research in telecommunications policy, political communications, intellectual property law, and media literacy. So far he has published three peer-reviewed articles in American legal research journals on government transparency and telecommunications policy, and has presented his research at eight academic conferences, two of which were internationally focused.

Raluca Csernatoni’s research interests include topics in International Relations Theory and Security Studies, sub-focusing on the problematic of security policy making, the interconnections between internal and external security, and the international political order post-9/11; and in European Union Studies, concentrating on the European Union’s (EU) new security challenges and policy developments within the framework of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP). In her PhD research, she aims to analyze the underpinning institutional condition (temporal, material, and normative) that have pioneered a European defence program in the EU, and to trace the evolutionary dynamics in the defence dimension that led to the creation of the European Defence Agency (EDA).

Veronika Czakó is a PhD candidate at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at CEU. She completed her undergraduate and master’s studies at Budapest Corvinus University and at the London School of Economics, majoring in Economic Policy, with a minor in Sociology. Her current research focuses on climate change action at the city level, from at multi-level governance perspective. Veronika is affiliated to the 3CSEP research center at CEU, where she has been responsible for projects carried out for UNEP and WWF.

Selim Deringil is Recurrent Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at the Central European University in Budapest.

Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Policy at Central European University (CEU). She received her PhD in Economics from University of Maryland, College Park, USA, in 2006. Her primary research and teaching interests are in the fields of comparative institutional economics, economic history, and law and economics.

Anil Duman has received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests include political economy, economic development, welfare state policies, and comparative economic systems. Currently, she has been specializing on labour market institutions, social security regimes, and their interactions.

John S. Earle is Professor of Economics at CEU and Senior Economist at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.  He has taught at CEU every year since the founding of the Economics Department in 1991, and has served as department head (1993-1995) and director of the PhD program (2003-2006).  In 1994, he set up the CEU Labor Project as an externally funded unit of the university to promote research on labor economics and other applied microeconomic issues, with particular focus on the transition in CEU's regional neighborhood.  The Project has produced more than 30 publications in academic journals, trained many MA and PhD students over the years, and collaborated on projects ranging from the World Bank, USAID, EU Frameworks, COST, and OECD to several governments of the region.

Zsolt Enyedi received four M.A.’s in comparative social sciences, history, sociology and political science (from University of Amsterdam, ELTE University, and Central European University) and a PhD in political science (from Hungarian Academy of Sciences). His research interests focus on party politics, comparative government, church and state relations, and political psychology (especially authoritarianism, prejudices and political tolerance). He published more than fifty articles and book chapters, and (co)authored two and coedited three volumes on these topics.

Alex Fischer served as full-time faculty member at the Department of Public Policy from 2005 until 2007. Currently he works as a political advisor for  WWF Switzerland  and in addition, he kept his affiliation with CEU as Associate Professor.

Jay Fogelman has more than thirty years of hands-on business experience, including over twenty-five in IT services and related fields. He has held regional, intercontinental and global management positions with the Amdahl Corporation, EMC Corporation and SAS Scandinavian Airlines. 

He is an experienced consultant, executive coach, project manager and a trained and seasoned facilitator. He has lectured and consulted on five continents. In particular, he has delivered sales training and coaching for some of the world’s largest technology companies across Europe and America.

He managed EMC’s business consulting practice for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
He holds a BA in Philosophy with Special Honors from Lake Forest College, and an MA in Philosophy of of Science from the Johns Hopkins University.
He is the Business School's representative in the CEU Senate.
 

Viktor received his MA in International Studies at the Corvinus University of Budapest. His research focuses on the borderland between political philosophy and international political theory. Viktor’s main interest lies in the ethics and logic of the use of violence in international and national politics and their relation to the emergence and sustenance of political order, a topic approached in his research project through the concept of sovereignty.

Stela Garaz is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at CEU. Previously she received an M.A. degree in political science at CEU and a licentiate diploma at State University of Moldova.
Her research is mainly focused on democratic institutions and ethnic politics in post-Soviet countries. The main goal of Stela's Ph.D. project is to determine whether the regimes with concentrated political power, by virtue of their inner logic, are conducive to inter-ethnic instability in the post-Soviet multi-ethnic states.
In 2008, Stela worked as trainee researcher at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg (Germany). 

Byzantine history, c.600–1500;
Byzantine manuscript studies & Greek palaeography

György Gergely has done his graduate studies in psychology at University College London and Columbia University where he received his PhD in experimental psycholinguistics. He has also earned a second PhD in Clinical Child Psychology from the HIETE University, Budapest. His main research interests are: Social and cognitive development and cultural learning in infancy and early childhood, action understanding, theory of mind, and developmental psychopathology. He has published books and papers in three broad areas of research and theory: a) cognitive science, b) cognitive and socio-emotional development, and c) clinical and psychoanalytic developmental theory, and developmental psychopathology.

Tom Glaser retired from thirty years’ service with the European Commission in 2005. His tasks included six years dealing with the ACP countries and, since 1993, with the enlargement process.His final job before posting to Budapest was concerned with public information covering 28 countries involving a budget of €150 million. He ended his tour in Budapest as Head of the EU Representation. Since 2006, he has been a visiting Professor at CEU, a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Social and European Studies at Koszeg and a board member of Generation Europe Foundation in Brussels.

Marie-Pierre Granger received a PhD in Law from the University of Exeter (UK) in 2001. She joined CEU in 2004. Her teaching and research interests include the legal and political aspects of European integration, judicial process, comparative public law, environmental and social law and policy. On maternity leave from April 2009 until March 2010.

Michael Griffin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy.  He has also been a visitor in the Institute for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, and the philosophy departments at the University of Colorado, the University of Illinois at Chicago, Wake Forest University, and the University of Virginia.  His current research interests focus on philosophers of the early modern period, especially Leibniz, Descartes, Spinoza and Locke.

Prof Hancke is a reader in Political Economy at the Londond School of Economics and a visiting Professor at the Departments of Political Science and IRES at CEU Fall 2007 to Winter 2008.

I studied at CEU in 2004-2005 and now I joined it again for the PhD with focus on climate change and energy efficiency.

Daniel is a PhD student of Political Scinece at Central European University in Budapest and a junior fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the effectiveness and inequality of education, and the political economy of education. He has published in English in Educational Research and Evaluation and in Prospects, and also in several Hungarian publications such as the Education in Hungary 2006.

Ferenc Huoranszki is professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Central European University. His interests include metaphysics and the philosophy of action, particularly the questions of free will, causation, modality, and 18th century metaphysics and ethics.

Jenne received her Ph.D. in 2000 from the Political Science Department at Stanford University, with concentrations in comparative politics, international relations, conflict processes, and East European politics. She has received numerous grants and fellowships, including a MacArthur Predoctoral Fellowship at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford; a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) and the World Peace Foundation (WPF) at Harvard University, and a two-year Carnegie Corporation Scholarship for a book project that compares the League of Nations regional security regime with that of postcommunist Europe. Erin K. Jenne  teaches Masters and Ph.D. courses on qualitative and quantitative methods, ethnic conflict, international relations theory, nationalism and civil war, and international security.

Karoly (Charles Jokay) is a municipal finance and creditworthiness specialist with extensive experience in Central and Eastern European countries, including Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Macedonia and Romania, and recently (2009), India, South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.   Having served for two years as the Municipal Capital Markets Development Advisor to the Ministry of Interior and to the Ministry of Finance in Hungary, he has extensive regional experience in policy reform, municipal finance and budgeting, utility infrastructure, and information marketing and dissemination to municipalities. His firm, IGE Consulting Limited (www.ige.hu), established in 1996, provides municipal finance and development consulting to international donors and to Hungarian municipalities.

Since January 2010 Assistant Professor at the Central European University in Budapest. Senior Research Associate (since 2005, Senior since 2007), Deputy Program Director "Migration" (since 2007), the leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets (since 2006) and former Deputy Director of Research (2009) at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Martin Kahanec has held several advisory positions (the World Bank, the European Commission, OECD, etc.). Member of several professional associations (AEA, ESPE, EALE, EEA). His main research interests are Labour and Population Economics, Ethnicity, and Migration. He has published in refereed journals, has a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (OUP), and he has edited scientific volumes and a journal special issue.

Achim Kemmerling holds a PhD in Political Science from Free University Berlin. Before coming to CEU he worked at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB), the Jacobs University Bremen and the Hertie School of Governance Berlin. His research interests include the political economy of social and labour market policies, taxation and development.

Youngmi has joined CEU in AY 2009/2010. Youngmi received her PhD from the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2007, and has been at the University of Edinburgh thereafter until her move to CEU. Her main interests are in comparative politics, especially in the study of political parties and party systems, governance and governability, and comparative regionalism. Youngmi was previously Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and has taught at University College Dublin, Ireland. She has been the recipient of several grants, including from the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the Japan Foundation, and the Korea Foundation. Her current research explores the role of information technology in political activism, and the impact of political culture on political behaviour. 

Co-founder and first chairman of the Alliance of Free Democrats, Hungary’s liberal party. Took an active part in the process of the transition to democracy in 1989/90. Withdrew from politics in 1991. At present, professor of political science and of philosophy at the Central European University, Budapest. In 1983, guest lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). In 1988/89, visiting professor at the New School for Social Research (New York). In the Fall of 1996, 2000, and 2002, visiting global professor at the New York University School of Law.

Permanent Fellow of Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. Beside CEU, teaching reglarly cultural policy graduate seminars and courses at Leiden University, Bologna University, Bilgi University Istanbul and University of Arts Belgrade.  Initiator and Chair of the European Festivals Research Project. Writer, lecturer, researcher, advisor and frequent conference speaker, esp. on the contemporary performing, arts, cultural policy and international cultural cooperation. Author of several books, many articles and contributions to over 60 edited books.

Peter Kondor studies asset pricing with frictions, information and learning and delegated portfolio management. He was an assistant professor in Finance at the University of Chicago before joining the CEU. He recently published an article on "Risk in dynamic arbitrage: The price effects of convergence trading" in the Journal of Finance.Kondor earned his master's degree in economics from the Central European University in 2002, and a PhD in finance from the London School of Economics in 2006. During his studies, he won the EU-Archimedes Prize in 2002 and the GAM award in 2005.

Born and educated in Budapest, Hungary, I also sent a fair amount of time for study, teaching or research in England, Scotland, North America, Germany and Italy. I have been a member of CEU's History Department since its first MA program in 1992 (and was its head from 1999-2005 and 2006-2008). My acedemic interests focus on intellectual history, especially political and historical thought, inter-cultural communication and reception, and more recently the history of scientific knowledge production, in the early-modern period and the Enlightenment.

Professor at the Nationalism Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the Central European University, Hungary, and since 2002 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethnic and Minority Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Renata is Probationary Doctoral Candidate at Political Science Department, Public Policy track. She received her first MA in Psychology from the Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her second MA was awarded by CEU in 2003 where she studied at Department of International Relations and European Studies. Her research interest concerns the higher education policy. Renata has over 10 years of experience in this area first as student leader and later as civil servant and in recent years as analyst in Slovak Governance Institute with which she is affiliated also during her studies. She has published dozens of articles in Slovak media on the topic of higher education and was very active in advocacy in regard to higher education issues.

Ottoman history

Lucia is a graduate of the IRES department (2006) and currently a doctoral student at the same department. Her dissertation focuses on analyzing the impact of transition on migration dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). She has participated on various research projects which analyzed economic transition, institution building and labor markets in CEE.  

Paul Lacourbe is Associate Professor of Operations Management at CEU Business School. His research revolves around the management of product innovation and product positioning. He is particularly interested in the psychological aspects and sustainability in product design. His work has appeared in Production and Operations Management, Current Issues of Business and Law, Revue Française de Gestion. Professor Lacourbe holds a Ph.D. from INSEAD. He worked at ESSEC before joining CEU.

Archaeology of the Middle Ages;
medieval monastic culture

Marvin Lazerson is professor of higher education policy in the Department of Public Policy, Central European University and professor emeritus, University of Pennsylvania.  He holds A.B. and M.A. degrees from Columbia University in New York City and a PhD in history from Harvard University.  He is a widely published scholar in the ares of educational history, higher education, and social policy.  A member of the National Academy of Education (U.S.), he is past president of the History of Education Society.  He has taught at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of British Columbia, as well as the Penn, where he also served as dean of the Graduate School of Education and the university's interim provost.  In addition to teaching at CEU, he coordinates the higher education policy stream in the Department of Public Policy.

Levente (Levi) received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2006 where he also studied Survey Research and Methodology. He has held visiting positions in multiple departments of the Eotvos Lorand University and the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Psychology. He has taught a number of workshops on missing data. Predominantly a methodologist, Levi’s research strives to find new analytical strategies to complex problems and research questions in any field of science.

Born in 1975 in Pécs, Hungary. After graduation from the University of Pécs in 2003 I was started to work as a teacher. I left for studying in England in 2004 and received my MA degree (2006) in European Historical Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, with a dissertation on the cultural influences on fourth century Sopianae in Pannonia. Between 2006 and 2008 I was working in rescue archaeology. I am currently a Doctoral Candidate at the Central European University, Budapest.

Gergo holds an MA in International Studies (2005) from Corvinus University of Budapest and a post-graduate master’s degree in International Business Economics (2006) from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). In 2005, he received the Pro Scientia Gold Medal from the Council of National Scientific Student’s Association of Hungary. He is a Research Assistant at the Center for Policy Studies and a member of the Political Economy Research Group at CEU. Since September 2009 he also works at the Institute for Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences as a junior research fellow. He writes his PhD on the patterns of uneven regional development in postsocialist Central Europe.

Boryana has a BA degree from the American University in Bulgaria in European Studies and Political Science/International Relations, where she defended a thesis entitled “Protest Voting in Bulgaria”. Her MA degree is from the Central European University in International Relations and European Studies, where she defended a thesis entitled “The rise of Euroscepticism in a New Member State of the EU: The case of Bulgaria” Boryana's research interests are in the field of European integration studies and, in particular, the Europeanization of politics and the impact of Eastern Enlargement on the EU politics. Also, issues of quality of democracy in the EU and the issue of democratic representation are central focus of her research at CEU. 

Michael Merlingen's current research interests lie, on the one hand, in European foreign and security policy and, on the other, the intersection of biopolitics and imperialism. He has published two books on the ESDP. He currently works on his third book, provisionally entitled "European Security and Defence Policy: What It Is, How It Works, Why It Matters", which will be published by Lynne Rienner in 2009.

Stefan Messmann is Professor of International Business Law at Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary, since 1998. He also served as Academic Pro-Rector of CEU between 1999 and 2003.

Tamas Meszerics received his B.A., Dr. Univ. and Ph.D. in modern international history from Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. His major research interests include foreign policy analysis, the applications and limitations of rational choice models in political science, 20th century international history. He was visiting scholar at the Institute for International Studies, University of Leeds. He has been working at the department since its foundation.

Manuel has a BA in International Relations from  the University of Timisoara (Romania) and an MA in International Relations from CEU. His research interests are EU foreign policy, European security, EU-Russia relations, IR theory, critical and poststructuralist theories applied to IR (identity, territoriality, borders), political sociology, political theory, legitimacy issues in the EU, international migration.
 

Kalman Mizsei holds a PhD from the Budapest University of Economics. He is currently the European Union Special Representative for Moldova.  Previosuly he served as UNDP Regional Director for Europe anad the CIS. At the CEU Department of Public Policy he teaches Globalization and Global Governance

Andres Moles read Philosophy at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) finishing in 2001, and received an MA in Philosophy and Social Theory (2003) and a PhD in Politics (2007) both at the University of Warwick. His research and teaching interests cover a range of topics in contemporary political and moral philosophy, with particular reference to liberal and democratic thought, and issues concerning social and distributive justice.

Courses Offered: Real Analysis, Functional Analysis, Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Integral Equations, Calculus of Variations, Control Theory, a.o.
Research Interests: Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Difference Equations, Calculus of Variations, Evolution Equations in Banach Spaces, Fluid Mechanics, Singular Perturbation Theory, Various Topics in Applied Mathematics.
To find out more, please visit: http://www.personal.ceu.hu/staff/Gheorghe_Morosanu/resume.html 

Boldizsár Nagy read law and philosophy at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and pursued international studies at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center. Besides the uninterrupted academic activity both at the Eötvös Loránd University (since 1977) and the Central European University (since 1992) he has been engaged both in governmental and non-governmental actions. He acted several times as expert for the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Council of Europe and UNHCR. He is a co-founder and board member of the European Society of International Law and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Refugee Law and of the European Journal of Migration and Law.

Andreea Nastase is a PhD candidate at CEU's Department of Public Policy, researching public office ethics in the European civil service. Her dissertation project is entitled "Administrative ethics in the European Commission: national traditions, individual attitudes and organizational processes", and is supervised by Dr. Agnes Batory. Andreea also teaches an introductory course in public policy and public administration at CEU's Roma Access Program. Before enrolling in the PhD program, she worked as a project officer for Transparency International Romania. Andreea holds an MA in Public Policy from CEU (2006) and a BA in Political Science from the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Andrej Nosko, PhD student at Political Science Department, researches coping strategies of small, open, transitional economies of Central Europe with their energy import dependence. His theoretical focus is on issues of energy, security, and government-corporate relations. Andrej's experience developed while living in 6 countries, and besides academia, working in private, NGO as well as governmental sectors. Before returning to CEU, Andrej worked for the European Commission in Brussels in the field of internal security.

Irina Papkova received her B.A. from Hamilton College in 1999; an MA in Russian and East European Studies from Georgetown University in 2002; and completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from Georgetown University in 2006. She has taught at Georgetown, George Washington University, and the Russian State Pedagogical University of A. I. Gerzen. Her research interests include religion and politics, nationalism and ethnic conflict, the politics of development and democratization, and the cultural impact of globalization; and the political implications of historical memory.

Ismail holds an MA degree in Political Science (Sabanci University '09, Istanbul). During his MA research, he has also served as a TA for two years. His main research areas are democratic theory, rights and the history of European political thought. During his doctoral research, he aims at achieving a better understanding of conditions for participating in democratic decision-making process. He finds it highly important to compare what we understand from democracy and whom we exclude from it.Besides these main areas, Ismail is also interested in media studies, popular culture, graphics design, dystopian literature and liberal political theory.

Katrin Rabitsch is an assistant professor at the Department of Economics at Central European University and a researcher at Magyar Nemzeti Bank (The Central Bank of Hungary). Her research interests are in international macroeconomics and finance. Her current work focuses on countries' external adjustment, the international transmission mechanism and monetary policy in an open economy.

Katrin received her Ph.D. from the European University Institute in 2008. She also holds an M.A. from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2003) and an undergraduate degree (2002) from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

Research interests: Transatlantic relations, EU foreign policy, US foreign policy, European Parliament.

Dissertation title: The strategic culture gap: US vs EU foreign policy discourse

Currently, CEU Provost/Academic Pro-Rector, Howard Robinson is also Professor of Philosophy and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He mainly specializes in metaphysics, including the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of mind: he also has an interest in the history of philosophy.

Márton is a PhD candidate at the International Relations and European Studies Department of Central European University. In the course of his doctoral research, Márton studies cosmopolitan theories and the notion of trasncendence of national citizenship in the light of the case of Roma, an allegedly non-territorial nation.
Márton holds an MA of International Relations and Economics (Budapest University of Economic Sciences) and a DEA of Relations Internationales (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris). He has been a visiting fellow at the Sociology Department of Yale University, the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, and the Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Márton's research interests include: theories of cosmopolitan democracy, global civil society, transnational social movements, international politics of multiculturalism, the Romani movement.

I studied history, Latin philology, French literature and linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, where I started to teach in 1985 with a grant from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. I was working on late medieval French projects concerning the recovery of the Holy Land. Following a year at Oxford University, I received a Ph.D. scholarship at Princeton. The four years spent there saw my conversion to Late Antiquity (1989-93). I came home with great enthusiasm to teach at the newly established Medieval Studies Department at CEU, and I continued teaching at ELTE too. 
 

Judit Sándor is a professor at the Faculty of Political Science, Legal Studies and Gender Studies of the Central European University (CEU), Budapest. She received her JD at the Faculty of Law in Budapest. In 1990 she was as a visiting scholar at the McGill University specializing in medical law. She completed the Hungarian bar exam and in 1991.

Carsten Q. Schneider is Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies (DISC). Prior to joining CEU in 2004, he obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. His research focuses on regime transitions, the consolidation and quality of democracies. He is also working in the field of comparative methodology, especially on Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and its fuzzy set extension. Schneider is member of the Young Academy of Science in Germany and he will spend the Academic Year 2009-2010 as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

Born in 1967
cultural historian of Renaissance and Reformation;
(sometimes) cultural analyst and developer of cultural policies;
father of two young boys

Before coming to CEU Anna studied Hungarian literature and linguistics and political theory at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. After gaining these degrees she worked at the Hungarian Parliament and in the Mayor's Office in the Municipality of Budapest. Following three years of practice she decided to continue her studies, and gained an MA at the Political Science Department of CEU with a thesis entitled "Biopolitics of Hunger: Understanding World Hunger through the Concepts of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben". Anna's doctoral research conducted at the Department of International Relations and European Studies focuses on the possible forms of resistance against global biopolitical governance.

Daniela is Probationary Doctoral Candidate at Political Science Department, Comparative Politics track.

My research interest includes ancient, late antique and medieval science and philosophy, medieval manuscript studies and cognitive science. My current research project explores visual thinking and diagrammatic reasoning. After having received my PhD at the University of Cambridge in 1998, I have held research positions for eight years at the University of Cambridge, the Warburg Institute (University of London), and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), and most recently for a year at the Collegium Budapest. I have taught courses in medieval science, philosophy, intellectual history, manuscript studies, palaeography and cognitive science in Cambridge, London, and Budapest. My current courses at CEU include medieval science and codicology.

Elena B. Stavrevska is a PhD Candidate at the CEU Department of International Relations and European Studies, where she also earned her M.A. degree with a final thesis entiteled "EU Intelligence-Sharing: The British Quid Pro Quo?" Her current research focuses on the durability of liberal democratic peace processes in post-conflict societies following a major multilateral peacebuilding mission, shedding light on the impact of the level of local decision-making autonomy and grassroots peacebuilding activities. The title of her project is "Peacebuilding Missions' Impact on Liberal Democratic Peace Durability: What Role for Decision-Making Autonomy and Grassroots Peacebuilding?" The project is supervised by Professor Michael Merlingen and Professor John Shattuck.

Stephen Stec first taught business law at CEU in 1992 and returned in 1999 as an adjunct in ENVSCI. For almost 20 years he has done fieldwork with international organizations in Europe, Central Asia, Africa and China, including UNEP, UNDP, OSCE, UNECE, EBRD, REC and CEELI.  He participated in the negotiation of the Aarhus Convention and other MEAs and contributed to environmental peacebuilding efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in the Sava River Basin. From 2006-08 he served on the Managing Board of the ENVSEC initiative (www.envsec.org). He is a fellow of the Institute for East European Law and Russian Studies at Leiden University (NL), a member of the World Justice Forum and IUCN CEL, and serves on the editorial board of the European Energy and Environmental Law Review. In 2007 Mr. Stec was a co-recipient of the Rule of Law Award.

Diane Stone was founding director of the CEU's Master's Program in Public Policy (MPP) in 2004 introducing 'global public policy' as a core theme.  From 2004 to 2008, she held a European Commission Framework 6 Award and was Marie Curie Chair in the Center for Policy Studies.  universities.

Miklos Sukosd received a Ph.D. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include: political communication and democratic performance of the media in post-communist states in comparative perspective; media law, regulation and democratization in post-communist states; environmental politics and communication.

GY. E. SZÖNYI is professor of English (Szeged) and intellectual history (CEU, Budapest). His interests include the Renaissance, the Western Esoteric traditions, and cultural theory and symbolization. – Recent monographs: Pictura & Scriptura. 20th-Century Theories of Cultural Representations (in Hungarian, Szeged, 2004); John Dee's Occultism (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004). – He has edited among others: European Iconography East & West (Leiden, 1996); The Iconography of Power (with Rowland Wymer, Szeged, 2000); "The Voices of the English Renaissance," Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 11.1 (2005); The Iconology of Gender (with Attila Kiss, Szeged, 2008).

Dane Taleski is a PhD Student at the Political Science Department. His major research interest is focused on political parties. In his dissertation he is looking at the development of parties in post-conflict societies. The EU and EU' enlargement are his minor research interest. His work has been published in couple of edited volumes and some peer journals. Coming from Macedonia he is actively present in the public and political life of the country, where he writes a weekly column in one od the daily newspapers.

Sergio Tirado Herrero (Spain, 1978) holds a BSc in Environmental Science and an MSc in Global Change and Sustainable Development from the University of Alcala (Madrid). His experience in Central and Eastern Europe dates back to 2001, when he joined the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) as a project assistant. Between 2002 and 2008 he has been researcher in the Environmental Economics Research Group at the University of Alcala, in projects ranging from the cost-benefit analysis of strategic energy programmes act to the economic valuation of Spain’s ecosystem services. Since September 2008, he is a PhD student at Central European University (CEU) and a member of 3CSEP. The preliminary title of his PhD dissertation is “Fuel poverty in Hungary. An assessment from the perspective of the residential sector”.

Gonzalo Torres is a PhD Candidate in political science at Central European University in Budapest. His research explores the political performance of LGBT organisations in Central Eastern Europe, in a comparative study of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia. Gonzalo holds a Masters degree in political science and a postgraduate certificate in political communication from CEU, and a BSc (hons) in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
Gonzalo is currently a visiting researcher at the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Munk Center for International Studies, University of Toronto.

After simultaneously working as Strategist in an Investment Bank for 11 years, and Assistant Professor of Finance and Econometrics for 4 years in Turkey, he joined CEU Business School.
He was awarded Honorary Mention in an international research contest by Istanbul Stock Exchange in 2001, and prize for high-ranked international journal publication by the Turkey's Scientific Research Council in 2009.
He is a very active researcher on Financial Markets. He teaches International Finance, Capital Markets & Investments, Forecasting Financial Markets, Quantitative Methods and Business Economics at CEU Business School.

Having obtained an MA in Political Sciences and International Relations (KU Leuven) and an MA in Nationalism Studies (CEU), in 2009 turned his attention to Environmental Studies. His research focuses on issues of legitimacy, social cohesion and mobilisation in environmental politics. In particular, he is concentrating on how these issues play in U.S. environmental politics.

Dr Vedres teaches sociology at CEU since January 2004. My primary interests are economic sociology, social networks, historical sociology, postsocialism, and methods. I received his PhD in sociology from Columbia University. This is a link to my website.

Jean-Michel Viola received his PhD in Business Administration from HEC Montreal (Canada) after a MBA from UQAM (Canada) and a Bsc in Economics from Paris 2 University. Prior to joining CEU, he has worked for 8 years as a professor for HEC Montreal and Rennes School of Business in France and 3 years for JP Morgan bank in Paris. Since 1995, he has been involved in teaching management at all levels and has run various executive seminars in Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia. His research deals with the challenges associated with knowledge issues in the management of strategic alliances, the management of intellectual capital, business models in emerging industries, and the management of innovation and creation.

Ph.D. (Warwick University): Director of PhD program; environmental philosophy and political theory; academic writing for environmental sciences and policy.