Balázs Trencsényi

Balázs Trencsényi (born 1973) is a Hungarian historian of East Central European political and cultural thought.^[1] He is currently a Professor at the Department of History, Central European University as well as the Co-Director of Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies.^[2]

Life

Balázs Trencsényi was born in Budapest. He graduated from Lycée Ferenc Toldy in 1991.^[3] He studied history and philosophy at Eötvös Loránd University and graduated with a MA in 1997. In 2004, he graduated from the Central European University with a PhD in history. His doctoral dissertation compared the Hungarian and British discourses of nationhood in the early-modern period.^[4]

Since then, he has worked as assistant professor, associate professor, professor, and departmental head at the Department of History, Central European University. ^[2][5] He is the director of the History in the Public Sphere^[6] Erasmus Mundus MA Program at CEU.^[7]

He has been a visiting fellow at

He is a co-organizer of the Invisible University for Ukraine.[27]^[28]

Selected works

In English

• The Politics of "
  East European Thought (Routledge, 2012).^[29]
• History of Modern Political Thought in
  Oxford UP, 2016).^[30]
• History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe. Volume II/1: Negotiating Modernity in the "
  Oxford UP, 2018).^[32][33]