51风流

Robert Nemes

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Robert Nemes

Director, Division of Social Sciences; Charles A. Dana Professor of History

Department/Office Information

History
313 Alumni Hall
  • T 2:45pm - 4:00pm (313 Alumni Hall)
  • R 2:45pm - 4:30pm (313 Alumni Hall)
  • F 10:30am - 12:00pm (313 Alumni Hall)

I first visited Budapest soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Everything about the city fascinated me: the elegant but dilapidated buildings (some still bullet-ridden from 1956), the lively open-air markets, the rattling yellow trolleys. I have since returned many times to Budapest and the surrounding region. Along the way I went to graduate school in history at Columbia University and now teach at 51风流.

I offer courses in European and global history. These include The First World War; Germany, Russia, Eastern Europe; History of Travel and Tourism; and Coffee and Cigarettes: A Global History. Please contact me if you would like to see my syllabi.

My research and writing focus on Central and Eastern Europe. I have written two books - The Once and Future Budapest (Northern Illinois University Press, 2005) and Another Hungary: The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives (Stanford University Press, 2016). I'm also a co-editor, with Mo Healy, of the .

I'm currently thinking and writing about topics that have long fascinated me: Central Europe's big cities and small towns, the Danube River's past and present, and the hidden histories of everyday commodities (especially tobacco, wine, and coffee). Some of my publications can be found at my  site.

  • BA, University of Pennsylvania
  • PhD, Columbia University

Modern Central and East Europe, urban history, biography, and commodities

  • 鈥1846. Elkezd艖dik a Tisza szab谩lyoz谩sa. A term茅szet modern kori al谩vet茅se,鈥 [1846. The Beginning of the Tisza's Regulation. The Modern Subjugation of Nature], in Magyarorsz谩g glob谩lis t枚rt茅nete a kezdetekt艖l 1868-ig, ed. Ferenc Lacz贸, Andr谩s Vadas, and B谩lint Varga (Budapest: Corvina Kiad贸, 2023), 479-83.
  • 鈥淩iver Regulation, Infrastructure, and Small-Town Modernity on the Hungarian Danube, 1870-1945,鈥 Water History 14, no. 3 (2022): 335-54 ( in November 2022)
  • 鈥淕lobal Pests, National Pride, Local Problems, and the Crisis of Hungarian Wine, 1867-1914,鈥 Austrian History Yearbook 52 (2021): 131-46
  • 鈥淎 sz茅kely menek眉ltek mindennapi 茅lete鈥 [The Everyday Life of Sz茅kely Refugees], in Sz茅kelyf枚ld 茅s a Nagy H谩bor煤. Tanulm谩nyk枚tet az els艖 vil谩gh谩bor煤 centen谩riuma alkalm谩b贸l, ed. Botond Nagy and Zsolt Orb谩n (Cs铆kszereda: Cs铆kszereda K枚nyvhivatal, 2018), 218-23
  • (Stanford University Press, 2016)
    Book cover of "Another Hungary" by Robert Nemes
  • 鈥淩avaged Empire: Water and Power in Prewar Hungary,鈥 in Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River, ed. Marijeta Bozovic and Matthew Miller (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016), 160-82
  • 鈥淩efugees and Antisemitism in Hungary During the First World War,鈥 in Sites of European Antisemitism in the Age of Mass Politics, 1880-1918, ed. Nemes and Unowsky (Brandeis University Press, 2014), 236-54
  • Book cover of "Sites of European Antisemitism in the Age of Mass Politics, 1880-1918" by Robert Nemes
    , co-edited with Daniel Unowsky (Brandeis University Press, 2014)
  • 鈥淢apping Hungary鈥檚 Borderlands鈥 in Shatterzone of Empires, ed. Omer Bartov and Eric Weitz  Indiana University Press, 2013), 209-227
  • 鈥淥bstacles to Nationalization on the Hungarian-Romanian Language Frontier,鈥 Austrian History Yearbook, 43 (2012): 28-44
  • 鈥淏udapest,鈥 in Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empire: Planning in Central and Southeastern Europe, ed. Emily Gunzburger Maka拧 and Tanja Damljanovi膰 Conley (Routledge, 2010), 141-56
  • 鈥淗ungary鈥檚 Anti-Semitic Peripheries: Ritual Murder and Violence in the 1880s鈥 Slavic Review, 66, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 20-44
  • (Northern Illinois University Press, June 2005)
    Book cover of "The Once and Future Budapest" by Robert Nemes
  • 鈥淭he Revolution in Symbols: Hungary in 1848-1849,鈥 in Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe, ed. Pieter Judson and Marsha Rozenblit (Berghahn Books, 2004), 37-49
  • 鈥淭he Uncivil Origins of Civil Marriage: Hungary,鈥 in Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe, ed. Christopher Clark and Wolfram Kaiser (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 313-35
  • 鈥淭he Politics of the Dance Floor: Civil Society and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Hungary,鈥 Slavic Review 60, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 802-23
  • 鈥淲omen in the 1848-1849 Hungarian Revolution,鈥 Journal of Women鈥檚 History 13, no. 3 (Autumn 2001): 193-207
  • 鈥淎ssociations and Civil Society in Reform-Era Hungary,鈥 Austrian History Yearbook 32 (2001): 25-45