Ágnes Katalin Kelemen, Ph.D.

Education

• 2015–2019: PhD., History Department, Central European University (Budapest)
• 2012–2014: MA, Nationalism Studies Department, Central European University (Budapest)
• 2008–2012: BA, Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest)

Research interests

Refugees East-Central Europe in 20th century, History of higher education, East Central European Jewish history

Research projects

• Unlikely refuge? Refugees and citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th century, ERC Consolidator grant, Research fellow, 09/2019-2024

Teaching

• 2018 course instructor, “A velünk élő Holokauszt” (“The living memory of the Holocaust”) with Professor Júlia Vajda and Professor Júlia Székely, Sociology Department, Eötvös Loránd University
• 2017 Teaching Assistant of the “Historiography” lecture and seminar taught by Professor Carsten Wilke and Professor Daniel Ziemann, History Department, Central European University
• 2017 Teaching Assistant of the Historiography Master Class “The Russian Revolution as History” taught by Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick

Fellowships abroad

• 2016–2017: Leo Baeck Fellowship - granted by the German Studienstiftung and the Leo Baeck Institute London
• 2014–2015: Paideia Scholarship - granted by Paideia - The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden

Membership in Editorial Boards

• Member of Hungarian Studies Association
• Member of Magyar Történelmi Társulat (Hungarian Historical Association) 
• Member of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies 

Publications

Publication list at MIA CAS in ASEP: here

Editorship

• Ármin Bálint, Feljegyzések Gyuri fiam részére. Napló 1944-ből (Notes for My Son, Gyuri. A Diary from 1944). Foreword and notes by Ágnes Katalin Kelemen. Budapest: Múlt és Jövő, 2014.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Kelemen, Ágnes Katalin. “Peregrináció, emigráció, száműzetés. A két világháború közötti magyar diákvándorlás és a numerus clausus összefüggései (Peregrination, emigration, exile. The interconnection between interwar Hungarian student migration and the numerus clausus),” Múltunk, 63 (2018):4, 4-31.
• Kelemen, Ágnes Katalin. “<Az asszimiláció az élet nagy iskolája volt> A zsidó önazonosság és szolidaritás kérdései Erdélyben az első világháború után (<Assimilation was a great school of life> Questions of Jewish identity and solidarity in Transylvania after the First World War,” Múltunk, 62 (2017):4, 137-159.
• Kelemen, Agnes Katalin. “The Exiles of the Numerus Clausus in Italy,” Judaica Olomucensia, (2015):1, 56-103.
• Kelemen, Agnes Katalin. “The Semaphore of Mobility: Hungarian Jewish Press and Peregrination to Fascist Italy,” Annali di Storia delle Università Italiane, 19 (2015):2, 41-53.

Book chapters

• Kelemen, Agnes Katalin. “Migration and Exile: Hungarian Medical Students in Vienna and Prague, 1920-1938,” János Kenyeres et al. (Ed.), At the crossroads of human fate and history – Studies in honour of Tibor Frank on his 70th birthday (Budapest: Eötvös Loránd University, School of English and American Studies, 2018), 222-241.
• Kelemen, Ágnes Katalin. “Visszapillantás a toronyőrre. Bálint Györgyről (The Tower Watchman in Retrospect. György Bálint),” Teri Szűcs and Gábor Schein (Eds.), “Zsidó” identitás-képek a huszadik századi magyar irodalomban (“Jewish” Identities in Twentieth Century Hungarian Literature) (Budapest: ELTE Eötvös Kiadó, 2014), 91-100.

Book reviews

• Kelemen, Agnes Katalin. “A jó a gonosznak kedvezett? (The Good Has Promited the Evil?),” Élet és irodalom LXIV (2020):42, 20. Book review on the Hungarian edition of Europa gegen die Juden: 1880 – 1945 by Götz Aly.
• Kelemen, Agnes Katalin. “Ne legyünk Fretwurstok (Let Us Not Be Fretwursts),” Élet és irodalom LXIV (2020): 17, 20. – Book review on the Hungarian edition of "Volk ohne Mitte" by Götz Aly.
• Kelemen, Agnes Katalin. “A Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany: The Life of Werner Scholem (1895–1940) by Ralf Hoffrogge,” East Central Europe 47 (2020): 1, 157-160.
• Kelemen, Agnes Katalin. “Családregény és várostörténet (Family Novel and Urban History),” Élet és irodalom LXIII (2019): 30, 21. – Book review on "Századok hullámain (On the Waves of Centuries)" by Éva Bácskai.
• Kelemen, Agnes Katalin. “Catastrophe and Utopia: Jewish Intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s by Ferenc Laczó and Joachim von Puttkamer,” East Central Europe 45 (2018): 2-3, 372-375.
• Kelemen, Agnes Katalin. “Zionists in interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging by Tatjana Lichtenstein,” European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 24 (2017): 4, 657-658.