MÁTÉ RIGÓ
mr633@cornell.edu
450 McGraw Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA
Education
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, August 2009-present
Doctoral student at the Department of History
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, 2008-2009
Master of Arts in Central European History (2009)
Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary, 2003-2005, 2006-2008
Master of Arts in History (expected spring 2009) and English Language and Literature (2008)
Accepted to competitive Eötvös College (2004), Historical Anthropology Program (Loránd Eötvös University) (2004), Erasmus College (2006), Budapest, Hungary.
Honors and Awards
Outstanding Student Award, Department of History, CEU, 2009
Kellner Scholarship, Kellner Foundation (New York), 2005
Full-tuition scholarship to Bard College.
Workshops
“Future Continuous”, University of Bucharest, Department of Political Science; Bucharest, Romania
participated in seminars on Romanian-Hungarian historiography, May 2009
Regime Changes in Eastern Europe, Erasmus College; Esztergom, Hungary
Participated in seminars on comparative regime change in Central Europe, April 2007, April 2008.
Work experience
Cornell University, Department of History, Ithaca, NY
Co-convener of East Europeanist Circle (with Holly Case), Spring 2010
Loránd Eötvös University, Department of Social History, Budapest, Hungary
Co-taught seminar on Hungarian urban and social history, Fall 2008
Columbia University, The Earth Institute, NY, USA
Research Assistant to Prof. Richard Plunz, summer 2006
Bard Journal of Social Science, Bard College
Co-editor, 2005 to 2006
Sic Itur Ad Astra Historical Journal, Budapest, Hungary
Co-editor, 2004 to 2009
Selected and edited articles especially pertaining to cultural history
Community service
Common Grounds Relief, Volunteer, New Orleans, LA, January 2006
Additional skills
Languages: English: fluent, French: reading and speaking , German: reading and speaking, Slovak: beginner; native Hungarian.
Selected Publications
“Nagymező és Klauzál utcai bérházak 1941-ben: az elöregedő és a korszerű lakásállomány hatása a bérlőkörökre”. (The relationship between old and modern apartment buildings and their tenants in Budapest, 1941). With Ágnes Nagy. Kismező, Nagymező, Broadway. Edited by Mária Kemény. Budapest: Műcsarnok, 2009. (forthcoming)
“A jó parti. Házassági szerződések elemzése a két világháború közötti Budapesten,” (Study on marriage contracts and gender roles in interwar Budapest) Tanulmányok Budapest Múltjából, 2009. (forthcoming).
“Evading the Crossroads of Jewish History?” East Central Europe, Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, 36 (2009): 7-9.
“The Central European Perspective”. East Central Europe, Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift (Online Review Database). 2007.
