December 15, 2015
Arlie Russell Hochschild, professor emerita at the University of California, studied Tea Party supporters in Louisiana for five years to learn about the emotional motivation of right-wing sympathies. She shared her findings at her Nov. 25. lecture at CEU, "Strangers In Their Own Land: Allegory, Emotion and The American Right."
June 30, 2015
Exceptional master's and doctoral students were recognized in June for their academic achievements with awards presented on June 18. Scroll down for the slide show of photos of the ceremony.
June 24, 2015
CEU alumnus Ivan Lesay (POLS ’06) was recently appointed State Secretary of the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic. He replaces Vazila Hudak, who became the country’s economic minister.
June 16, 2015
In his new position Jeff Le (POLS ’07) will help with the daily running of California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s Cabinet. Le, who earned an MA in political science at CEU in 2007, was appointed on June 5.
June 4, 2015
The Executive Committee (EC) of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) named the Department of Political Science at Central European University host of 2016-18 Summer School of Methods And Techniques (SSMT).
May 22, 2015
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May 12, 2015
Tinatin Khidasheli, who earned a Master of Political Science at CEU in 1996, has been named defense minister of Georgia, the first woman to hold the post. She is also the first of CEU's alumni to become defense minister.
April 30, 2015
CEU earned the best rankings in its history in the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) subject ranking, published April 29. CEU's programs related to politics and international studies jumped to 29th in the world, and 7th in Europe.
February 3, 2015
CEU mourns the sudden and tragic death of alumnus William Klinger, aged 42, who passed away on January 31.
Klinger graduated from the University of Trieste in 1997 with a BA in history and completed his MA in Political Science at CEU in 2000/2001. He completed his doctoral degree at the European University Institute in Florence, becoming an expert on Yugoslavia's former leader, Josip Broz Tito. Klinger was working at the History Department of the Centro di Ricerche Storiche di Rovigno (Center for Historical Research of Rovinj).







