Graduate Scholarships in History

Call for Applications 2014/2015

Central European University is an English-language, graduate university with an urban campus located in the beautiful center of the thriving cultural capital--Budapest, Hungary. A university with students from over 100 countries and faculty from more than 40, CEU offers a cosmopolitan learning environment in small, seminar-style courses with a student/faculty ratio of 8:1. CEU is accredited in the United States as well as the European Union (Hungary).

CEU's Department of History offers students interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives on the history and culture of Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe in conjunction with the Ottoman, Middle Eastern, and larger Eastern Mediterranean world. Our curriculum covers this broad Eurasian span from the early modern period to the present, and we also encourage our students to take classes and engage with faculty and peers in other disciplines at the University such as Medieval Studies, Anthropology, Public Policy, Gender Studies, Sociology, Environmental Studies, as well as Legal Studies just to name a few. Our community challenges our students to craft cutting-edge research projects in dialogue with the current debates and research at the forefront of the social sciences and humanities. Please visit our website to learn more about our thriving community in the department as well as the success stories of our recent alumni who have landed coveted positions in competitive tenure-track posts, the world's top PhD programs, as well as high positions in government, NGOs, and the private sector.

Programs offered:

Master of Arts in Central European History (One Year)
Master of Arts in Comparative History: Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe 1500-2000 (Two Years)
Master of Arts in European Women’s and Gender History (MATILDA) (Two Years)
Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative History of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe
Specializations in Religious Studies, Jewish Studies, and Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Selected Areas of Research:

- Comparative history of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian Empires
- Nationalism Studies
- Social and Cultural History
- Gender Studies
- Labor and Migration History
- Comparative history of fascism
- Comparative history of communism
- Comparative religious studies
- Urban studies
- Late antique and early modern history
- Intellectual history

While earning degrees at CEU, we also encourage our students to take advantage of paleography as well as language classes in the Department and CEU’s Source Language Teaching Unit that teaches beginning, intermediate, as well as advanced Arabic, Armenian, Ancient Greek, Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, German, Hungarian, Latin, Russian, Ottoman Turkish, Turkish and others.

Financial aid: In recent years nine out of ten MA students in the History Department have received some form of tuition scholarship (worth up to €12,000). In addition, CEU offers a variety of degree fellowships (including health insurance, stipend, and/or dormitory accommodations) to supplement the (relatively affordable) cost of living in Budapest. More than two thirds of our MA students benefit from various degree fellowships, so that they can devote their full energies to their studies. All PhD students receive generously funded three-year fellowships, as well as a variety of further research funding opportunities. For more details see http://www.ceu.hu/admissions/financialaid

The application deadline is January 23, 2014. Early applications are encouraged.

For inquiries about the department, the programs, the funding schemes, and the admission process, or for any other questions related to our department, please contact Ms. Agnes Bendik: BendikAg@ceu.hu
For more information: http://bit.ly/1bx5RTD