Kovacs Awarded Hungary’s Szechenyi Prize

April 19, 2013

Andras Kovacs, professor in the Nationalism Studies Program and director of the Jewish Studies Project, was awarded the Szechenyi Prize by Hungarian President Janos Ader on March 15. The award honors those who have made an outstanding contribution to academic life. Kovacs, who is also a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, received the Szechenyi Prize in recognition of decades of teaching and research in the field of post-war Hungarian Jewish history, as well as the sociology of minorities and minority identities.