Main research areas

Research Areas in 19th and 20th Century History

Images, Stereotypes, and Propaganda

• British and American Images of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Hungary
• Efforts to Influence the Foreign Image of Hungary (Lajos Kossuth, Count István Bethlen)
• International Propaganda

Tools and Mechanisms of Central European Dictatorships

• Secret Police and Censorship
• The International Secret Service of the Habsburg Monarchy
• International Exiles after the Revolution of 1848-49; The Role of Lajos Kossuth

Emigration/Immigration and the “Racial” Question

• Mass Emigration from the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
• Hungarian-American Intellectual and Professional Migrations
• Step- and Chain-Migrations
• The Early History of Brain-Drain
• Migration of Scientists through Germany to the United States
• Anti-Semitism and Migrations

Transatlantic and European Relations

• Austro-Hungarian and Hungarian Relations with the English-Speaking World
• Interwar Diplomatic Relations between the United States and Hungary
• The Role of Weimar Germany (especially Berlin) in the Transatlantic Process
• Interwar German-Hungarian Cultural and Scientific Relations
• The International Relations of Hungary
• The United States and Europe: Influences and Connections
• English and German as International Languages and Language Policies

Overlapping National Histories

• Team leader of the European Science Foundation Programme “Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe”
  (Team 4: “Overlapping National Histories”), 2003-2009.