Social Sciences: Faculty

Dr. Alexander Vari

Concentrations:

European history, Latin American history, urban studies

Dr. Alexander Vari is a historian of modern Europe with research interests in urban and cultural history, the history of nationalism, the history of travel and tourism, and everyday life under socialism. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Brown University, and graduated with a B.A. in History and Philosophy from Babes-Bolyai University. A former holder of Fulbright and Social Science Research Council fellowships, he was also an Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.

At Marywood he teaches surveys in Modern European and World History, and upper level courses in Central and Eastern European, Latin American, and urban history. In his teaching he encourages student participation and critical engagement with the class material. He is the moderator of the Marywood chapter of Delta Epsilon Sigma, a member of the Marywood Fulbright Committee, and currently serves as Chair of the Social Sciences department.

He has published articles in Budapesti Könyvszemle, Journeys, Austrian History Yearbook, Journal of Contemporary History and Urban History (forthcoming 2013), and book chapters in Turizm: The Russian and Eastern European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism (Cornell University Press, 2006), Impermanence: Cultures In/Out of Time (Penn State University Press, 2008) and Touring beyond the Nation: A Transnational Approach to European Tourism History (Ashgate, 2011). He is also one of the co-editors of Socialist Escapes: Breaks from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 (Berghahn, 2013).

Courses:

Roots of the Modern World, 1750-1914 (HIST 100)
The Global History of the Twentieth Century (HIST 101)
History of Eastern Europe (HIST 420D)
Totalitarian Regimes in Europe, 1917-1945 (HIST 420E)
Dictatorship and Democracy: Europe, 1945-1989 (HIST 420F)
Contemporary History of Latin America (HIST 440)
European Cities: Urban Development and Metropolitan Change in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Budapest, 1800-1940 (HIST 460)