
Rank:
Professor
Position:
Director
Contact information
Languages spoken
English
German
Hungarian
Positions:
Istvan Rev is the Director of the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives and Professor at the Department of History.
Fellowships and Awards
- 1991-1993 Central European University, Director of the Budapest College
- 1985-1991 Scientific Fellow, Economic History Department, Karl Marx University of Economics, Budapest
- 1981-1985 Scientific Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1975-1981 Junior Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1985-1986 School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 1995 Getty Research Institute
- 1994 Center for Advanced Study, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- 1994 Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley
- 1997-1998 Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
Professional Activities
- Founding editor of The Budapest Review of Books 1989-
- Organized conferences, seminars, academic study- and research programs, served on academic and advisory boards, was the curator of sixteen exhibitions
- 1991-1993 Central European University, Director of the Budapest College
Courses Taught in the previous years
- Historiography (lecture)
- Historiography (seminar)
Doctoral Supervision
- Mobilizing Objectivity in the Propaganda War: Comparative History of Techniques for Gathering Information during the Cold War / Georgi Georgiev (current)
- Democracy in Times of Solidarity / Piotr Wcislik (current)
- Good health is the best dowry: marriage counseling, premarital examinations, sex education in Hungary, 1920-1952 / Gábor Szegedi (2014)
- Curating communism: a comparative history of museological practices in post-war (1946-1958) and post-communist Romania / Simina Badica (2014)
- Disembodied presences of Josip Broz Tito: sounds, voices, images / Maja Brkljacic (2008)
- Historians as expert witnesses in the age of extremes / Vladimir Ljubomir Petrovic (2009)
- Embodying communism: politics of mass gymnastics in post-war Eastern Europe / Petr Roubal (2007)
- Monuments between life and death : memory and representation in monuments of the socialist past in Bulgaria / Nikolai Voukov (2005)
- The survival of the church under Soviet rule : a study in the life of the Ukrainian exarchate of the Russian orthodox church 1945-1971 / Natalia Shlikhta (2003)
- Ecclesio-political aspects of the international activities of the Moscow patriarchate, 1917-1948 / Daniela Kalkandjieva (2003)
- The Kopjás: the culture of the counterrevolution / András Mink (2003)
- National and religious holidays as the clashing point of the state the church and opposition in Poland 1944-1989: the case of Lublin / Izabella Main (2002)
Qualification
M.A. in History- English Language and Literature-Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest