Biography:

• MA in English and History; B.Ed., Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1982-87.
• Visiting student, Merton College, University of Oxford, 1988-89.
• Assistant lecturer at the Department English Language and Literature 1989.
• Visiting Research Fellow, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1990-1992.
• M.Phil. in International Relations: Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 1995-96.
• Ph.D. in History: Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, 1998-2001.
• Habilitation (in the Historical Sciences): Eötvös Loránd University, June 2011.
• Promoted Associate Professor at the School of English and American Studies, March 2013.
• Taught summer course of ten lectures on interwar European History at the Department of History of Capital Normal University of Beijing, July 2013.
• Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest, 2005-2014; Fall Term 2019.
• Contributing Editor of The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy (Wiley-Blackwell), 2014-2018.

Research:

• The modern history and historiography of the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States.
• East-West diplomacy in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Technology and society in Europe, 1890s to 1968: the history of photographic and cinematographic techniques; the impact of radio and cinema on society;
• The political, social, economic and cultural history of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe 1900-1968.
• The history of China and its interactions with other powers from 1911 to 1949.
• The theory, aesthetics and sociology of film.

Selected publications:

• "'Curs Yapping Round the Dying Stag', or the rituals of fractured societies: Hungary and Poland in the vortex of the Munich Crisis of 1938." The Munich Crisis, Politics and the People: International, transnational and comparative perspectives. Ed. Julie Gottlieb, Daniel Hucker and Richard Toye. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021. 66-89.
• "Uncertain Beginnings in Danubian Central Europe: Embedding the new states system in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland, 1919-1927." Vom Nachkrieg Zum Vorkrieg: Die Pariser Friedensverträge und die internationale Ordnung der Zwischenkriegszeit. Ed. Ulrich Schlie, Miklos Lojko and Thomas Weber. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, (Andrássy Studien zur Europaforschung; 26) 2020. 59-76.
• "Railways and Diplomats: The Failure of the League of Nations to Settle the Manchurian Crisis, 1931-1933." Az emberi sors és a történelem kereszteződésében: Tanulmánykötet Frank Tibor 70. születésnapjára - At the Crossroads of Human Fate and History: Studies in Honour of Tibor Frank on his 70th Birthday. Ed. Nóra Deák, János Kenyeres, Miklós Lojkó, Tamás Magyarics and Éva Eszter Szabó, 2nd ed. Budapest: ELTE BTK Angol-Amerikai Intézet, 2019. 349-366.
• "The Age of Illusion? The Department of Overseas Trade Between the Two World Wars: Three Case Studies." The Foreign Office, Commerce and British Policy in the Twentieth Century. Ed. John Fisher, Effie G H Pedaliu and Richard Smith. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 115-140.
• Meddling in Middle Europe: Britain and the 'Lands Between', 1919-1925. Budapest, New York (NY): Central European University Press, 2006.

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