The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare: Cold War Organizations Sponsored by the National Committee for a Free Europe/ Free Europe Committee

Biographies

547 Biographies Veronika Durin-Hornyik Veronika Durin-Hornyik is a Hungarian PhD student at the Université Paris-Est (France) doing research on the National Committee for Free Europe’s cultural activities during the Cold War. She earned degrees in French literature, Communication and Law in Hungary. In 2006 she continued her studies in France for her Master’s Degree on the Marxist interpretation of the French Enlightenment in the work of Hungarian literature historians. Her deep interest in the relation of Culture with Politics and its use for political purposes led to her research on the Cultural Cold War under the supervision of Professor Fabienne Bock. Having completed a Research Masters in History on the Free Europe University in Exile at the Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (France) in 2009 as a fellow of the Regional Council of Île-de-France, she began her PhD studies in 2010 as a contract researcher on the extended topic of the NCFE’s overall cultural activities to fight against Communism in Europe from the 1950s-mid 1960s. 2 Tibor Frank Holds positions as Professor of History and Director of the School of English and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (1994−2001, 2006−), where he is head of the Ph.D. program in American Studies. He has been doing research on transatlantic relations, international migrations, imagology, and historiography. He was a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and UCLA (1987−90), the University of Nevada-Reno (1990−91), and vis- • Biographies 548 iting professor at Columbia University (2001, 2007, 2010). Recipient of the Humboldt Award (Germany, 2002) and corresponding fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London, 2006−), he has been board member of Historical Abstracts (Santa Barbara−Oxford, 1989−93, 2000−), Nationalities Papers (New York, 1989−2009), Polanyiana (Budapest, 1994−), the European Journal of American Culture (Nottingham, England, 1998−), Apprasial (2010−), Külügyi Szemle (2011−), Öt Kontinens (2011−). Elected c. member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2013. His recent books in English include From Habsburg Agent to Victorian Scholar: G. G. Zerffi 1820−1892 (New York: Columbia UP, 2000), Picturing Austria-Hungary: The British Perception of the Habsburg Monarchy 1865−1870 (New York: Columbia UP, 2005), and Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States 1919−1945 (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009). He has edited Discussing Hitler: Advisers of U.S. Diplomacy in Central Europe, 1934−1941 (Budapest –New York: CEU P, 2003), Ever Ready to Go: The Multiple Exiles of Leo Szilard (Berlin: Max−Planck−Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2004), and (with Frank Hadler, eds), Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts: Overlapping National Histories in Modern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan , 2011). 2 Jonathan H. L’Hommedieu Jonathan H. L’Hommedieu, currently a faculty member in the History Department at Armstrong Atlantic State University, received his B.A. in History from Armstrong Atlantic State University, his M.Soc.Sc. in Contemporary History from the University of Turku in Finland where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Contemporary History 2011. His doctoral dissertation was titled „Exiles and Constituents: Baltic Refugees and American Cold War Politics, 1948–1960.” His current research has continued to be focused on Baltic history, immigration history, and public diplomacy. 2 549 Biographies Katalin Kádár Lynn Katalin Kádár Lynn is an independent scholar based in Budapest and California and a senior researcher at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest . Her principal area of scholarship 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 Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities in 20th Century Hungarian history and a Masters in Liberal Arts from Washington University in St. Louis, MO. Her undergraduate degree with dual majors in History and English Literature was earned at the University of Colorado. Kádár Lynn is the biographer of the Hungarian political figure Tibor Eckhardt. Her book on Eckhardt, Tibor Eckhardt: His American Years 1941–1972 was 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. Her most recent book in collaboration with Hungarian historians Károly Szerencsés and Péter Strausz is titled Through an American Lens, Hungary 1938...