Book Award: Hungarian Religion, Romanian Blood

So excited to announce my book is the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies winner of the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize for “distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history.” Visit my publisher’s site for more details about my book Hungarian Religion, Romanian Blood: A Minority’s Struggle for National Belonging, 1920–45, published by Wisconsin University Press (2019). A paperback version of the book will be published this summer 2021 for $22. Visit the book’s Amazon page to pre-order. Historical lessons pertinent to today’s resurgent nationalisms Amid the...

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Blogpost: The “Majority Question” in Interwar Romania

Check out my recent blogpost, “The ‘Majority Question’ in Interwar Romania: Making Majorities from Minorities in a Heterogeneous State.” The piece is a contribution to the Myth of Homogeneity (Minority protection and assimilation in Western Europe, 1919-1939) project, a Swiss National Science-funded research project hosted at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.

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Book Talk: LSC-Kingwood “Writers, Speakers & Ideas” Series

Thanks to Prof. John Barr and the organizers of LSC-Kingwood’s “Writers, Speakers & Ideas” series for hosting me on my home campus and giving me the opportunity to discuss my award-winning book Hungarian Religion, Romanian Blood: A Minority’s Struggle for National Belonging, 1920–45, published by Wisconsin University Press (2019).

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