I’m an intellectual historian of East Central Europe during the ‘long’ nineteenth and ‘short’ twentieth centuries, focusing on the Habsburg Empire and its successor states.

In the main, I work on the history of democratic, republican, and socialist political thought. I have broader research interests in conceptual history, the philosophy of history, the history of philosophy, the history of historiography, and issues related to the sociology and epistemology of historical cognition.

I am finishing my PhD in Comparative History at Central European University in Vienna, Austria (previously in Budapest, Hungary), where I completed my MA in the same field. My dissertation focused on republican and radical democratic political languages articulated by the interwar Left in Hungary and Yugoslavia, tracing their conceptual, semantic, and discursive development from the end of the First World War to the post-Second World War reconstruction period.

I’m currently based at the CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest, where I work as part of the Democracy in History Work Group.