Trencsényi Balázs

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1. Personal data:

Name: Trencsényi Balázs
Work: Assistant Professor, Central European University, Department of History; Research Associate, CEU Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies
Address: Central European University, Department of History, Nádor u. 11. Budapest, 1051 Hungary.
E-mail: [email protected]
Born: 1973, Budapest
Working languages: Hungarian, English, Romanian


2. Education:

Ph.D. in Comparative History at the Central European University, Budapest (1998-2004).
M.A. in Nationalism Studies at the Central European University (1997-1998);
Philosophy and History at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (1991-1997).

Research student at the University of Cambridge, King's College (1999-2000), founding member of the. international research group “Regional Identity Discourses in Central and Southeast Europe (1775-1945),” editing a three-volume collection of texts thematizing collective identity (forthcoming in 2004-2005). Associate Fellow of the NEXUS Project at CAS, Sofia (2001-2002); guest scholar at GWZO, Leipzig (2002); Junior Visiting Fellow at IWM, Vienna (2002), and Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow at the Wissenschaftsolleg zu Berlin (2003). Main areas of interest: East-Central-European history of political ideas, comparative historiography, and methodology of history-writing.

3. Teaching:

(2000) Teaching assistant in the Balkans Summer University in Plovdiv, taught a course on modern nationalist ideologies in Central and Southeast Europe.

(2003) Tutor in the History of Political Ideas at Erasmus College, Budapest

(2003) Teaching assistant of the course, "Producing Relevant Knowledge: The Enlightenment Paradigm", directed by László Kontler, at CEU

(2004) (CEU, Ph.D.) "In Search of a New Master-Narrative: Historical Studies in Post-Communist Europe"

(2005) (CEU, Ph.D.) "Writing Intellectual History in East-Central Europe, 1945-2000"

(2004; 2005) (CEU, M.A.) "Comparing National Awakenings in Central and Southeast-Europe"

(2006) (CEU, M.A.) Political Modernities and Nation-Building in Central and Southeast Europe


4. Further professional activity:

Assistant editor of the East Central Europe L’Europe du Centre-Est. Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift. Member of the István Bibó Intellectual History Workshop (from 2001 onwards). Founding member (2001) of the international research group "Regional Identity Discourses in Central and Southeast Europe (1775-1945)," supported by the Prince Bernhard Foundation (The Netherlands), and the Centre for Advanced Study (Sofia, Bulgaria). Its result, a 1200 page-long collection of East-European identity-discourses with extensive commentaries, is being finalized. Its publication, with Central European University Press, is expected for 2005.