Balázs Trencsényi

Balázs Trencsényi (born 1973) is a Hungarian historian of East Central European political and cultural thought. 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.

 Life 
Balázs Trencsényi was born in Budapest. 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. Since then, he has worked as assistant professor, associate professor, professor, and departmental head at the Department of History, Central European University.   He is the director of the History in the Public Sphere Erasmus Mundus MA Program at CEU.

He has been a visiting fellow at Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, International Research School in Conceptual History and Political Thought, University of Jena, Humboldt University of Berlin, among other academic institutions. 

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2011.

 Selected Works 

 In English 

 The Politics of "National Character": A Study in Interwar East European Thought (Routledge, 2012).
 History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe. Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the "Long Nineteenth Century" by Balázs Trencsényi, Maciej Janowski, Mónika Baár, Maria Falina, and Michal Kopeček (Oxford UP, 2016).
 History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe. Volume II/1: Negotiating Modernity in the "Short Twentieth Century and Beyond" (1918-1968) by Balázs Trencsényi, Maciej Janowski, Mónika Baár, Maria Falina, Luka Lisjak-Gabrijelcic, and Michal Kopeček (Oxford UP, 2018) and II/2: Negotiating Modernity in the "Short Twentieth Century and Beyond" (1968-2018) (Oxford UP, 2018).

 In Hungarian 

 A politika nyelvei. Eszmetörténeti tanulmányok (The languages of politics. Studies in intellectual history) (Budapest: Argumentum, 2007).
 A nép lelke. Nemzetkarakterológiai viták Kelet-Európában (The spirit of the people. Debates on national characterology in Eastern Europe) (Budapest: Argumentum, 2011).

 References 

Category:Hungarian historians
Category:1973 births
Category:Members of Academia Europaea