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Gábor Egry

Biography

Gábor Egry is a historian, Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and director-general of the Institute of Political History, Budapest. He is author of five volumes in Hungarian and several articles, published, among others, in European Review of History, Slavic Review, Hungarian Historical Review, Südostforschungen. His first, and so far last workplace is the Institute of Political History, a research institute that was once dedicated to the history of the workers’ movement and the labor parties. He was Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at Stanford University, recipient of fellowships from Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, New Europe College, Bucharest, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator project Nepostrans – Negotiating post-imperial transitions: from remobilization to nation-state consolidation. This is a comparative study of local and regional transitions in post-Habsburg East and Central Europe.

Research Interests

Gábor's research interests are nationalism, everyday ethnicity, politics of identity, politics of memory in modern East Central Europe. In his current project he analyzes the collapse of Austria-Hungary with obvious emphasis laid on the social revolution that swept away the realm of the Habsburgs. He is especially interested in the process of unionization of the white-collar employees of the service, financial and state sectors during and after the war.