Graduate

Gergely Baics

Field: America (19th century) / Urban history (Americas and Europe)
Advisors: Joel Mokyr and Josef Barton
Contact: gergelybaics2008u.northwestern.edu

Gergely Baics (B.A. ELTE, Budapest; M.A. CEU, Budapest) is a social historian, specializing in nineteenth-century American social history with a trans-Atlantic focus on urban, population and immigration histories. He is interested in interdisciplinary work and a social science approach to history, informed by social and urban theory. He also has an interest in modern Eastern European, especially Hungarian history.