Dr. Monika Baár

Education and degrees

• 1993
  Visiting Student, Vilnius University
  
  

• 1994
  Visiting Student, University of Vienna
  
  

• 1995
  Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, MA in His
  
  

• 1996
  Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, MA in Literature and Linguistics
  
  

• 1995 – 1996
  Central European University, Budapest MA in Central European History
  
  

• 1996 – 1997
  School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, MA in Slavonic and East European Studies
  
  

• 1997 – 2002
  Brasenose College, University of Oxford, D. Phil in Modern History
  
  

Employment

• 2003 – 2005
  Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Department II. – Director Lorraine Daston)
  
  

• 2005 – 2007
  Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Essex, Department of History
  
  

• 2007 – 2008
  Research Fellow, Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona, Switzerland
  
  

• 2008 – 2015
  Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Assistant Professor in History, University of Groningen
  
  

Fellowships and scholarships

• 1993
  ELTE – Peregrinatio Scholarship, Vilnius University
  
  

• 1994
  Scholarship of the Aktion Österreich-Ungarn, Vienna University
  
  

• 1995 – 1996
  Soros foundation scholarship, Central European University, Budapest
  
  

• 1996 – 1997
  Foreign Commonwealth Office Scholarship, University of London
  
  

• 1997 – 2000
  Scatcherd European Scholarship, University of Oxford (‘Full scholarship’)
  
  

• 2000 – 2001
  Research Fellowship, King’s College, London, History Department
  
  

• 2001
  Research Fellowship, Herder-Institute, Marburg
  
  

• 2002
  Mellon Research Fellowship, University of Edinburgh, Institute for Advanced Study
  
  

• 2003
  Visiting Fellow, National Europe Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
  
  

• 2002 and 2005
  Junior Fellowship, Collegium Budapest
  
  

• 2008 – 2009
  Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Free University, Berlin
  
  

• 2017
  Fellowship in the Medical Humanities, Brocher Foundation, Geneva
  
  

• Book: Historians and Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford Historical Monographs, Oxford University Press, 2010, 352 pages, paperback edition 2013

• Co-authored book: B. Trencsényi, M. Janowski, M. Baár, M. Falina, M. Kopeček: A History of Political Thought in East-Central Europe, Oxford University Press

  Volume I.: Negotiating Modernity in the ‘Long Nineteenth Century’, 2016, 720 pps.

• Volume II.: ‘Negotiating Modernity in the Short Twentieth Century and Beyond’, forthcoming in 2017

• Selected articles: Historiography/political thought: ‘Echoes of the Social Contract in Central and Eastern Europe, 1770-1825’, in Avi Lifschitz (ed.), Engaging with Rousseau: Reception and Interpretations from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 95-113.

• ‘Academic Competitions in National History’, in Ilaria Porciani and Jo Tollebeek (eds.) Writing the Nation. Vol. II. Institutions, Networks and Communities of National History: Comparative Approaches, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 165-182.

• ‘East-Central European Historical Writing, 1800-0945’, The Oxford History of Historical Writing (general editor Daniel Woolf), Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 326-348.

• Counter-factual history:

  Abraham Viskaski. The Patriarch of the Ruritanian Nation, Storia della Storiografia 54 (2008), 2-30.

• History of disability: ‘Disability and Civil Courage under State Socialism: the Scandal about the Hungarian Guide Dog School’, Past and Present in 227:1 (May, 2015), 179-203.

• History of animals/disability: ‘Prosthesis for the Body and for the Soul: the Origins of Guide Dog Provision in Interwar Germany’, First World War Studies, special issue on Commemorating the Disabled Soldier, Vol. 6:1 (2015), 81-98, open access at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19475020.2015.1047890#abstract

• Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective

• History of Political Thought: Core group member of the project Negotiating Modernity: the History of Political Thought in East-Central Europe, ERC Starting Research Grant (principal investigator: Dr. Balázs Trencsényi, Central European University)

• Eyes that Lead: the History of Guide Dogs for The Blind, project supported by a Wellcome Trust Small Grant in the Medical Humanities

• Nationalities Papers – Associate Editor

• Working knowledge of Slavic languages, Latvian and Romanian

• 'The Cognitive Dog: Savant or Slacker?', graduate-level course on animal behaviour, Harvard Extension School, Distance Education programme

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