Gábor Sonkoly (Institute for Central European Studies, Budapest)

Career:

09.1999. - Professor at the Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest (Department of Economic and Social History)

09.1998. - Guest professor at the Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest and the
08.1999. Janus Pannonius University, Pécs

11.1997. - Member of the "Atelier" Franco-Hungarian Workshop for Postgraduate Studies' Council of Pedagogy

09.1997. - Research fellow at the Institute for Central European Studies, Budapest

Selected Publications:

Books

Transylvanian towns in the 18th-19th centuries, Teleki László Alapítvány, Budapest, 2000 (under publication, in Hungarian)

Social history - in another way: new initiatives in French social history in the 1990's,Csokonai, Debrecen, 2000 (in Hungarian, co-author)

Articles

How to define an urban hierarchy? Transylvania between 1750 and 1857 (in French) Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques, octobre 1996, n.17: 163- 172

The urban system of Transylvania in the 18th-19th centuries (in Hungarian) Palimpszeszt, 1.1996. October (http://bodzabokor.bdtf.hu/palimpszeszt/sonkoly/htm)

Cities in Eastern and Western Europe. (Report on) The Third International Conference of the European Association of Urban Historians 29-31 August, 1996, Budapest (in English, co-author) Books, Vol. 5. No. 4: 213-214

What is urban? The Transylvanian towns in the 18th-19th centuries (in German) in Kleine Stä dte in neuzeitlichen Europa, ed. by Holger Th. Gräf, p.25-58. Berlin Verlag, 1997

10. Changes in the system of Hungarian towns and settlements between 1784-1910 (in Hungarian, co-author) in Kőfallal, sárpalánkkal ... Várostörténeti tanulmányok, Csokonai, Debrecen, 1997, p. 25-49.

Small towns in Transylvania (1750-1857), (in French) Cahiers d’Histoire (Lyon), numéro spécial, 1998, XLIII, n° 3-4: 523-546

Feudal/national; regional/global : history of notion through the exemples of 19th century Transylvania in Globalisation et construction de nation, Teleki Foundation, Budapest, 1999, p. 187-204. (in Hungarian)

Analysis of Transylvainan identities through 18th and 19th century territorial exemples in Conflicts and their treatment in Central Europe. Patterns and traditions. Teleki Foundation, Budapest, 2000 (under publication, in Hungarian)

Gábor Sonkoly: Current Research

I am the director of two projects at the Central European Studies Centre (Budapest).

The first project is aiming a theoretical analysis of the impact of the notion of "heritage" to social sciences, history and related disciplines and areas.

The second project (and this is the most relevant in this case) is aiming the creation of a territorial-statistical information system for 20th century Central Europe on the basis of our GIS system, with which our Institute already created an ethnic map of Central Europe in the early 1990's. Now we are enlarging the scope of our data base. Through the mapping of social and economic data from the 20th century (1900-1990), we wish to analyse the following questions:

• how to determine small territorial units;
• how to fix these units in history, how to map their changes;
• do political borders coincide with economic, social, ethnic, etc borders;
• where do Hungary's historical inner borders run.

Since we analyse the territory of historical Hungary (i.e. the Carpathian basin), we are obliged to compare units within both historical and present-day political borders. This project is funded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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