Balazs Szelenyi
Biography
Balazs Szelenyi received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1998 and teaches classes on Philosophy, Globalization, Sociology and History for Northeastern University. His first major area of research was on urban history and urban development. Based on that research he published his first book called The Failure of the Central European Bourgeoisie (2006), and an article on the dynamics of urban development in the early modern period in the American Historical Review. His second area of research was on the origins and causes of genocide, for which he received fellowships from the National Endowment of Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Commission, and the German Marshal Fund. In 2003 he was named a Fulbright New Century Scholar for his research on genocide and the Holocaust. He has published articles in the academic journals Past and Present, Theory and Society, Social History, and the Austrian History Yearbook. Balazs has also co-edited a book called Cores, Peripheries and Globalization (2011). Currently Balazs is finishing his book on the Holocaust called From Minority to Übermensch, as well as developing a new interest on the impact of technology on society and the moral dilemmas involved in the evolution of transhumanism.
Professional Experience
Visiting Assistant Professor Boston College: History Department 2008-2010
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow George Mason University: History Department 2006-2008
Lecturer Pomona College: History Department 2006 and 1998
Lecturer UCLA in History Department 2005 and 1998
Lecturer Santa Monica College History Department 2005-2006
Teaching Associate and Assistant UCLA History Department, 1992-1996
Professional Activities & Accomplishments
Books
Szelényi, Balázs A. The Failure of the Central European Bourgeoisie: New Perspectives in Hungarian History (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2006).
Peter Reill and Balázs A. Szelényi (Eds.), Cores, Peripheries, and Globalization (Budapest: Central European University, 2011).
Articles
Szelényi, Balázs A. “New Burgher Revolution in Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century Hungary.” Social History, vol. 34, Issue 1, 2009, 231-249.
Szelényi, Balázs A. “From Minority to Übermensch: The Social Roots of Ethnic Conflict in the German Diaspora of Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.” Past and Present, 196, (August, 2007), 215-251.
Szelényi, Balázs A. “The Dynamics of Urban Development: Towns in Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century Hungary.” American Historical Review, 109, no. 2 (April 2004), 360-86.
Szelényi, Balázs A. “Enlightenment from Below: German-Hungarian Patriots in the Eighteenth Century.” Austrian History Yearbook, 34 (2003), 111-143.
Szelényi, Iván, and Balázs Szelényi. “Why Socialism Failed? Towards a Theory of System-Breakdown.” Theory and Society, Vol. 23, (April 1994), 211-231.
Szelényi, Balázs, and Iván Szelényi. “The Social Impact of Agrarian Reform: Social and Political Conflicts in the Post-Communist Transformation of Hungarian Agriculture.” The Anthropology of East Europe Review, Vol. 10 (Spring 1991), 12-24.
Fellowships and Scholarships
German Marshall Fund Research Fellowship 2005
National Endowment for the Humanities Library of Congress Fellowship 2004-2005
Fulbright New Century Scholar Award 2003
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Fellowship 2002-2004
American Council of Learned Societies Library of Congress Fellowship in International Studies 2002-2003
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Research Fellowship 2002-2003
American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Fellowship 2001-2002
Woodrow Wilson Center Research Scholarship (Washington, D.C.) 2001
Fulbright Post-Doctoral Research Scholarship: 2000-2001
