Nation-Building and Contested Identities: Romanian & Hungarian ...

NOTES ON AUTHORSZOLTÁN KÁNTOR (b. 1968, Timiºoara, Romania) currently works asa researcher at the Teleki László Institute, Budapest, and teaches atthe Political Science Department of the Eötvös Loránd University.M.A. in Sociology (1995) from the University of Timiºoara, M.A. inPolitical Science (1996) and in Nationalism Studies (1998) from theCentral European University, Budapest. Visiting fellow at the Universityof Edinburgh, Center for Central European Studies (1998-99). Civic Education Project Eastern Scholar at the Babeº-BolyaiUniversity, Cluj (2000-2001). He is interested in the theories ofnationalism, and the political sociology of national minorities, focusingon the Hungarian minority in Romania. Editor of the reviewRegio. Published numerous articles in Magyar Kisebbség, Regio,Provincia and Korunk.LÁSZLÓ KONTLER (b. 1959, Budapest, Hungary) is an intellectual historian.He was educated in Hungary and has held fellowships in Britain,Germany and the United States. Before becoming associated withCentral European University in 1991, where he is currently chair ofthe History Department, he had taught at universities in Hungaryand the United States, and continues to be a guest lecturer at theUniversity of Budapest. His publications include many articles inHungarian and English on the history of political and historicalthought in 16 th to 18 th century Britain and Germany, and several editionsof texts by theorists from that period. He is the author of twomonographs, The Mystery of the State: British Conservatism and theEarly-Modern Languages of Politics (in Hungarian, 1997), and Millenniumin Central Europe: A History of Hungary (1999).ZOLTÁN PÁLFY (b. 1964, Miercurea-Ciuc, Romania) is currently a Ph.D.candidate in comparative history at the Central European University,Budapest. B.A. in Romanian and English Language and Literature(1989) and M.A. in Hungarian Language and Literature andEthnography (1996) from the Babeº-Bolyai University, Cluj, M.A. inHistory (1997) from the Central European University. His mainfield of interest is history of education, focusing on issues of eliteprofessionalization, educational market, and minority social insertionin post-World War I East-Central Europe. He has publishedvarious ethnographical studies and articles on aspects of minorityeducation in Romania.375