The Making of Dissidents: Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and its Western Friends, 1973-1998, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. Order here.
Critical Reception:
- Interviewed in podcast “New Books in Eastern European Studies,” hosted by Roland Clark. New Books Network, January 10, 2025. https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-making-of-dissidents.
- Rady, Martyn. “Neither West nor East: The rise and fall of Central European dissidence.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 6356, 24 Jan. 2025, p. 22.
- Brian K. Goodman,” Book Review. The Making of Dissidents: Hungary’s Democratic Opposition and Its Western Friends, 1973-1998,” Journal of Social History, 2025, 1–3, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shaf029.
- “Book of the Month: The Making of Dissidents,” CEU Review of Books and Review of Democracy, March 28, 2025. https://revdem.ceu.edu/2025/03/29/book-of-the-month-the-making-of-dissidents/.
- C. P. Vesei, CHOICE connect, A publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, May 2025 Vol. 62 No. 9.
Book Chapters, Journal & Online Articles
“Origin Stories: Meritocracy, Exclusion & the History of Johns Hopkins University Reconsidered,” Frictions. Europa and America in the Modern World, published by the Leibniz Science Campus Regensburg, May 29, 2025.
“Sportland NRW: Two-Week Study Tour by Johns Hopkins University on “Sports – A Force for Good?” NRW-USA Blog, published by the Ministry for Federal and European Affairs, International Affairs and Media of the State of Northrhine-Westphalia (December 2024).
“When Students Rethink the Transatlantic Alliance,” Europe Now “Campus Dispatches,” August 15, 2024.
“The Complex Meanings of Two Raised Fists. Black Athletes’ Protests, the White Power Structure, and Narratives of Racial Progress,” submitted June 2023, peer-reviewed and accepted with minor changes.
“Orbán’s Enablers. German Conservatives and the EU Council’s Unanimity,” American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (31 January 2023).
“Erhard Busek, Austria’s Central European Ambassador, 1941–2022,” Hungarian Studies Review (December 2022): 251-257.
Opinion: “Ineffective Policies, Inconsistent Messaging. Johns Hopkins’ Plans for a Private Police Force,” (5 November 2022), translated into Mandarin, WeChat circulation.
“Russia’s war in Ukraine: has oscillating Orbán run out of steam?,” New Eastern Europe, 1 April 2022.
“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – Will it change the Olympics?,” Journal of Emerging Sport Studies (Spring 2022).
“Baltimore and Johns Hopkins University: How Community Voices offer New Perspectives,” Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, Vol. 13, no. 2 (2021).
“‘I am German plus something else’ — An Interview with Ali Can,” Migrant Knowledge, German Historical Institute (18 February 2021).
“Reading ‘Fascinating Fascism’ in Budapest,” in Finding the Right Language. For István Rév on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, pp. 86-99. Budapest: Blinken-Open Society Archive, 2021.
“American Exceptionalism, the Cold War, and The Last Dance,” Journal of Sport History, vol. 47 no. 3 (fall 2020): 269-270.
“Ein Fenster zur Welt: Osteuropa in der New York Review of Books, 1963-2004,” in Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropaforschung vol. 69, no.1 (Spring 2020).
Obituary: László Rajk, Jr. (1949-2019). Entdeckungen, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe (24 September 2019).
“1968 and the Historian: Eric Hobsbawm and Tony Judt.” In Unsettled 1968 in the Troubled Present. Revisiting the 50 Years of Discussions from East and Central Europe, edited by Aleksandra Konarzewska, Anna Nakai and Michal Przeperski: Routledge, 2019.
“Open Society v. Illiberal State: Europe, Hungary, and the ‘Lex CEU’,” special feature: “Lex CEU and the state of the open society 25 years after the democratic revolutions,” ed. by Eva-Clarita Pettai, Cultures of History Forum, Kertész Kolleg, Jena, 12 September 2017.
“A Tale of Two Revolutions: Hungary’s 1956 and the Undoing of 1989,” in EEPS vol. 31 no 1, special issue: “The Genealogies of Memory,” ed. by Joanna Wawrzyniak and Ferenc Laczó (August 2017).
“Central Europe in Manhattan: Why Hungarian Dissidents Mattered to New York Intellectuals,” Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 25, no. 1 (2015): 23-38.
“Living Mitteleuropa in the 1980s: A network of Hungarian and West German Intellectuals,” in Ilse Lazaroms and Emily Gioielli (eds.), The Politics of Contested Narratives. Biographical Approaches to Modern European History. London, New York: Routledge, 2014.
“From Balkan heights to Western discourses: Maria Todorova and the making of a level playing field,” Journal for Central European History, (10/2012): 146-163.
“Against received wisdom. Interview with Maria Todorova,” Journal for Central European History, (10/2012): 164-177.
“Living Mitteleuropa in the 1980s: a network of Hungarian and West German Intellectuals,” European Review of History: Revue europeenne d’histoire, 19:5 (fall 2012), 669-692.
Conference Reports
“Zukunft miteinander. Die Deutschen und ihre östlichen Nachbarn,” Akademie Mitteleuropa/ Der Heiligenhof, organized by Gustav Binder, March 25-29, 2018, Bad Kissingen, Report at Herder Entdeckungen.
“When Crisis Hits: Historians in Ukraine,” Victoria Harms in conversation with Dr. Paul Vickers, Dr. Anna Veronika Wendland and Dr. Svetlana Boltovskaya, reoundtable discussion on 27 September 2017, Marburg, Report and recording at Herder Entdeckungen.
LGSch Jahrestagung: “The Knowledge Factor: Refugees in Central and Eastern Europe, 1912-2001,” in Herder Aktuell (Spring 2017).
“People(s) on the Move: Refugees and Immigration Regimes in 20th-Century Central and Eastern Europe,” 9-10 June 2016, Annual Convention, Imre-Kertész-Kolleg, Jena, Germany. HSozKult, 4 October 2016.
“The Authenticity of Archival Collections,” 23-24 February 2016, Marburg Germany, Leibniz Association, Forschungsverbund Historische Authentizität.
Conference Report, Eleventh Annual Conference of Baltic Studies in Europe, 7-10 September 2015, Marburg, Germany.
Newsletter Articles
“>Lost in a Digital World?< Ein interaktiver Online-Workshop in Pittsburgh und Marburg,” in Herder Aktuell (Spring 2017).
“Croatia joins the EU: A study in contradiction,” Newsletter (September 2013), European Union Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh.
“The End of the Central European Dream or: an Unpleasant Awakening in Budapest,” Newsletter, European Union Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburgh (March 2011).
“Cafe Gerbeaud. A mirror of 150 years history,” Plotki. Rumors from around the bloc. (May 5, 2005).
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