Tibor FRANK's Page

About Me:

Tibor FRANK
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1948 in Budapest, Hungary, Tibor FRANK is Professor of History at the Department of American Studies and Director of the School of English and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (1994—2001, 2006—). He was one of the founding members of the Department of American Studies in Eötvös Loránd University in 1990 and Chair from 1992 to 1994. In Spring 2000 he set up a new Ph.D. program in American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University which he serves as program director.
Tibor FRANK was educated as a historian at Eötvös Loránd University, in Budapest, Hungary and in Cambridge, England (Christ's College 1969, Darwin College 1980-81). He has been teaching at Eötvös University since graduating in 1971 with an M.A. in History and English, obtaining his Dr. Univ. in Modern History (1973). He received his Ph.D. in History at the Hungarian Academy of Letters and Science (1979), his Habilitation in History at Eötvös University in 1996, and his D.Litt. at the Hungarian Academy of Letters and Science in 1998.
Between 1987 and 1990 Tibor FRANK taught as a Fulbright Visiting Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and also at UCLA. In 1990-91 he was invited to the University of Nevada-Reno as a Distinguished Visiting Professor of History, sponsored by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Between 1988-97 he taught History courses every Summer at UCSB Summer Sessions; between 1994 and 1997 he was founder and director of UCSB's The New Europe program. He was a Visiting Professor at the History Department of Columbia University in the City of New York in 2001 and in 2007.
Since 1992 he has been a regular visiting professor at the Education Abroad Program of the University of California in Budapest, Hungary (1992—), at the Center for the Study of American Culture and Language in Salzburg, Austria (1995), in the Nationalism Studies Program of the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (1999—2001), in the UNESCO-sponsored Minorities Studies Program of the Institute of Sociology of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary (1995, 1997), and the Institute of European Studies in Vienna, Austria (1999—). He lectured in over 30 U.S., Canadian, British and European universities and contributed to over 50 conferences in both Europe and the United States. His books, articles and chapters were published in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States (see full bibliography on his personal homepage, ).
Between 2003 and 2008 he is acting as a team leader, with Dr. Frank Hadler of GWZO, Leipzig, Germany, of the European Science Foundation Programme "Representations of the Past: The Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe" (Team 4: "Overlapping National Histories", to be published as Vol. 5 of a corresponding six volume series by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008).
Dr. FRANK has been on the board of Historical Abstracts (Santa Barbara—Oxford, 1989-93, 2000—), Nationalities Papers (New York, 1989—), Polanyiana (Budapest, 1994—), and the European Journal of American Culture (Nottingham, England, 1998—); as of 2005 he is Associate Editor of Nationalities Papers. He founded Hungary's Modern Language Association in 1983 which he served as Secretary General between 1983 and 1996, and of which he has been Vice President from 1996 to 2007. He was co-president (1994-2001), and is currently honorary president 2004—), of the Hungarian Association for American Studies and was a board member of the European Association for American Studies (1994-2001). He served on the board of the U.S.-Hungarian Fulbright Commission between 1999 and 2002. In 2006-07 he was nominated for membership in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in 2007 he was elected Vice-President of the Hungarian Historical Association.
Tibor Frank has been a member of The New York Academy of Sciences (1994—), and a corresponding fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London (2006--). He was awarded the C. E. Eckersley Prize in 1970, the Hungarian Higher Education Award in 1972, the Országh László Prize for 2000, the Pro Universitate and the Pro Neophilologia in Hungaria awards in 2002. In 2002 he also received the Humboldt Forschungspreis (Research Award) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for 2002 and, as a result, he spent the academic year 2003-04 at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin, Germany. In recognition of his achievement in higher education he was awarded the Szent-Györgyi Albert Prize in 2005 in Hungary.
Biographical Recognition: Dictionary of International Biography 1982; 1997, 1998, 2001; Marquis Who's Who in the World 1997, 1998, 2000; Magyar és nemzetközi ki kicsoda 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006; The International Who's Who of Contemporary Achievement; Men of Achievement 1982; 2000 Outstanding People of the 20th Century 1997, 2000; Who Is Who Magyarországon, 3. kiadás, 2005; Ki kicsoda a magyar oktatásban 2005, 2006.

June 2007

Website:

http://www.franktibor.hu

My British-Hungarian story:

Christ's College, Cambridge 1969; Darwin College, Cambridge 1980-81; author of books on British-Hungarian relations in the Victorian era such as "Ethnicity, Propaganda, Myth-Making: Studies of Hungarian Connections to Britain and America 1848-1945" (1999); "From Habsburg Agent to Victorian Scholar: G. G. Zerffi 1820-1892" (in English 2000, in Hungarian 1985, in Japanese 1994, in German 2002); "Picturing Austria-Hungary: The British Perception of the Habsburg Monarchy 1865-1870" (2nd ed. 2005); several lectures at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2006-). Many British friends in and out of London; many trips to Britain.

What I want from this site:

Contacts with Britain, as well as with Hungarians of British background.