Prof. Attila Pók

Prof. Attila Pók is former (1996-2018) Deputy Director of the Institute of History, Research Center for Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, former (2008-2015) Secretary General of the Hungarian Historical Association, former (2015-2023) Chairman of the Academic Council of the Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa in Leipzig, chairman of the Academic Council of the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity (since 2015), a senior researcher at the Institute of Advanced Study in Kőszeg (since 2016). Prof. Attila Pók used to teach at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna (1989 to 2009), was a recurring visiting professor of history at Columbia University in New York (1999 to 2013). His scholarly interests include 19th- and 20th-century European and Hungarian political and intellectual history, 19th- and 20th-century European historical writing, the theory and methodology of history and the history of nationalism.