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| Monday, February 27, 2012 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Katalin Kádár Lynn is a senior researcher at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and an independent scholar based in Budapest and California. Her principal area of research is WWII and the Cold War with an emphasis on Central and East European exile leaders, their organizations and activities.
She earned a PhD from ELTE BTK in 20th Century Hungarian history and a Masters in Liberal Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, MO.
She is the biographer of the Hungarian political figure Tibor Eckhardt, “Tibor Eckhardt: His American Years 1941-1972” published in the US ( East European Monographs) and in Hungary (L’Harmattan Press). She edited and published Eckhardt’s memoir “Tibor Eckhardt: In his own words” in English and in Hungarian and is working on the final edits of his 1941-1945 wartime reminiscences, which will be published in spring of 2012. Her most recent book in collaboration with Hungarian historians Károly Szerencsés and Péter Strausz is titled “Through an American Lens, Hungary 1938: Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White” ( English edition: East European Monographs 2010 – Hungarian edition, L’Harmattan Press 2009).
She is the editor of an upcoming compendium of essays on the history of the National Committee for a Free Europe, which will include her essays on history of the Hungarian National Council and the NCFE as well as contributions from scholars worldwide . She is also currently working on an expanded biography of Tibor Eckhardt which will encompass his Hungarian years and his wartime and Cold War intelligence activities. The expected date of publication of both books is late 2012, early 2013.
In March of 2011, she was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit ( Arany Érdemkereszt) of the Hungarian Republic by President Páll Schmitt.
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