Doctoral Dissertations Defended in 2021

2021

Ethnicity and Electoral Politics: The Role of Contextual Factors in Voting and Citizen-Party Linkage

By Nemanja Batrićević

Defense Committee:

Levente Littvay (supervisor, Central European University) 
Erin Jenne (voting member, Central European University)
Istvan Gergo Szekely (external voting member, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities)
Zsolt Enyedi (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: December 20, 2021

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Witnessing Body and States of Terror

By Andreea Nicutar 

Defense Committee: 

Alexander Astrov (supervisor, Central European University)
Prem Kumar Rajaram (voting member, Central European University)
Himadeep Muppidi (external member, Vassar College)
Violetta Zentai (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: November 9, 2021

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"To take the distinction between us and them away": Political subjectivities of horizontal solidarity activists in Denmark, Hungary, and Sweden

By Ewa Mączyńska

Defense Committee:

Xymena Kurowska (supervisor, Central European University)
Prem Kumar Rajaram (voting member, Central European University)
Sara de Jong (external member, University of York)
Michael Merlingen (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: September 20, 2021

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Anxieties about modernity: The development of the Romanian welfare state from the late-19th Century to 1938

By Sergiu Delcea 

Defense Committee:

Thomas Fetzer (supervisor, Central European University)
Julia Szalai (Central European University)
Daniel Béland (external member, McGill University)
Dorottya Szikra (chair, Central European University and Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest)

Date of the Defense: June 29, 2021

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Rectifying and Reinforcing: Constitutional Review in Consociations

By András Gál

Defense Committee:

Matthijs Bogaards (supervisor, Central European University)
Erin Jenne (Central European University)
Brendan O’Leary (external member, University of Pennsylvania)
Janos Kis (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: May 28, 2021

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Making Sense of Academic Freedom in Russia

By Elizaveta Potapova

Defense Committee:

Liviu Matei (supervisor, Central European University)
Marvin Lazerson (Central European University)
Terence Karran (external member, University of Lincoln)
Cristina Corduneanu-Huci (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: May 14, 2021

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The Transmission of Ideology across Generations: A Comparative Analysis

By Cristina Mitrea

Defense Committee:

Levente Littvay (supervisor, Central European University)
Mariyana Angelova (Central European University)
Laura Stoker (external member, University of California, Berkeley)
Zsolt Enyedi (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: 12 March, 2021
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A Liberal Theory of the Exploitation of Labour

By Stanislas Richard

Defense Committee:

Janos Kis (supervisor, Central European University)
Andres Moles (Central European University)
Nicholas Vrousalis (external member, Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
Anca Gheaus (chair, Central European University)

Date of the Defense: 15 January, 2021

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Foreign Fighter Recruitment as the Continuation of a War

By Asya Metodieva

Defense Committee:

Nick Sitter (supervisor, Central European University) – voting member 
Stathis Kalyvas - (external member, University of Oxford) – voting member
Paul Roe (Central European University) – voting member 
Evelyne Hubscher (chair, Central European University) – non-voting member 

Date of the Defense: 12 January, 2021