Columbia University in the City of New York
András Vadas
Istvan Deak Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of History
András Vadas is an associate professor with tenure in medieval history at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He holds a Ph.D. from the same institution (2015) and the Central European University (2020). He was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship at Georgetown University. He is the author or editor of about a dozen books in English and Hungarian on the environmental, urban, and economic history of premodern Central Europe. His first English-language monograph, The Environmental Legacy of War on the Hungarian-Ottoman Frontier, c. 1540-1690 was published in 2023 with Amsterdam University Press. His most recent book publication is A Global History of Hungary, which he co-edited with Ferencz Laczó and Bálint Varga (in Hungarian). Spring 2025

András Vadas is an associate professor with tenure in medieval history at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He holds a Ph.D. from the same institution (2015) and the Central European University (2020). He was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship at Georgetown University. He is the author or editor of about a dozen books in English and Hungarian on the environmental, urban, and economic history of premodern Central Europe. His first English-language monograph, The Environmental Legacy of War on the Hungarian-Ottoman Frontier, c. 1540-1690 was published in 2023 with Amsterdam University Press. His most recent book publication is A Global History of Hungary, which he co-edited with Ferencz Laczó and Bálint Varga (in Hungarian).

Spring 2025

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