Tamas Budai

Ass. Prof. Tamas Budai, PhD

E-mail: tamas(dot)budai(at)ihist(dot)bas(dot)bg
ORCiD ID: 0009-0002-8601-2194

1. MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH

Modern history. Balkan policy of Austria-Hungary 1871-1918; History of the Habsburg Empire and its peoples; History of the Balkan peoples XVIII-XX centuries. International Relations of the 19th and 20th centuries. Historical memory, genealogy; Local historical research.

2. ACADEMIC CAREER

Education

2000-2003, 2017-2020 – PhD in History, Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

1992-1997 – MS, Faculty of History, Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski”

1996-1998 – BS, Free Faculty, International Relations. Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski”.

Position held

2023 (continued) – Assistant Professor in the „History of the World and the International Relations in Modern and Contemporary Times” section of the Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Academic degree and title

2022 – PhD in History after a dissertation defense on the topic „The Balkan policy of Austria-Hungary 1897-1906, supervisor Acad. Academic Georgi Markov.

Participation in Joint Research Projects

2025–2026: Collective scientific project „Collective volume in honor of Prof. Dr. Luiza Revyakina“, organized by the Institute for Historical Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (participant).

Member of the scientific team of the Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in the implementation of the National Project „Minorities and Minority Groups – Challenges and Adaptation within the International System (XX-XXI century)” (2023-2025)

Individual Research Project

Austro-Hungarian Aspirations in the Balkans – Nations and Borders. Old Ideas, New Techniques.

Languages

Hungarian, German, English

3. PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • When St. 40 Martyrs is lifted up, Bulgaria will also be lifted up“. The Church of St. 40 Martyrs of Hasara at the village of. Stalevo (Dimitrovgrad municipality) – a key to the greatness of Bulgaria. Sofia, DioMira, 2022. ISBN 978-954-2977-90-2.

Studies and Articles

  • The Balkan policy of Austria-Hungary on the eve and during the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. In: Proceedings of Institute for Historical Studies. Vol. 39: About Professionalism in Historical Science. Collection of Research Papers in Honor of Professor Tamara Stoilova Dcs, Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2025, pp. 301-326. ISSN 2367-5187 (print) ISSN 2815-2913 (online). [In Bulgarian]
  • Austro-Russian Balkan Agreement 1897. In: Current Issues in Law and Beyond on EU Level Annual Volumes, V. Sofia. St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2023, pp. 144–189. [In Bulgarian]
  • The Albanian factor in the Balkan politics of Austia-Hungary at the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20 centuries. In: Istorikii, vol. 16. Jubilee collection dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Prof. Radoslav Mishev. Veliko Tarnovo, 2022, pp. 152-185. [In Bulgarian]
  • Klokotnitsa – Thrown stone. Hemus, 2, 83, 2/2023. XXXII, Budapest, 2023, pp. 5-19.
  • 200th anniversary of the birth of Ferenc Deak, Hungarian politician, initiator of the 1867 Compromise. Schoetor 17 October 1803 – Budapest, 28 January. In: Historical Review, 2004 (3-4), pp. 177-183. [In Bulgarian]
  • The Balkan Policy of Austria-Hungary on the eve of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising February-August 1903. In: 100 Years of the Ilinden-Preobrazhensky Uprising (1903): Collection of Research Papers from the International Scientific Conference dedicated to the anniversary of Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising of 1903, which was hold in Sofia on 26-27 September 2003, pp. 189-201. ISBN: 9549055272. [In Bulgarian]
  • A western empire looking southeast. The Balkan policy of Austria-Hungary 1897-1903. The Necessary East, in the series of collections The East-West Problem, Sofia 2002, pp. 501-510. [In Bulgarian]
  •  Bulgaria’s accession to NATO Preserving stability in the Central Balkans in the light of NATO’s role, Unios Tanoda press, Budapest 2004, 17-25 pp. [In Hungarian]

Textbooks and translations

  • Hungarian translation and editing of Ivan Stoyanov’s book Levski in Children’s Eyes.
  • Translations in the collection Hungarian Studies in Bulgaria, Sofia, 2004. ISBN: 954-8712-33-4

Reviews

  • The Small Agreement between Croats and Hungarians in 1868. Advantages and Disadvantages. Two Countries, Many Aspects and Different Points of View. In: Bulgarian Historical Review, Vol. 53, 1, 2025, 177-187. ISSN: 0204-8906, Online-ISSN: 2815-2905. Review of: Švoger, V., D. Sokcsevits, A. Cieger & B. Ostmajer (eds.), 2021. The 1868 Croatian–Hungarian Settlement: Origin and Reality. Zagreb–Budapest: Hrvatski institut za povijest–MTA BTK TTI, 304 pp. ISBN 978-953-8335-15-0.

4. PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC FORUMS

  • International Conference „The East-West Problem. A Historical Perspective“, organized by section of the Institute of History „History of the World and the International Relations in Modern and Contemporary Times”. 17-19 October, 2002, Sofia. The conference was a part of the scientific plan of the Institute of History – BAS and the first stage of the project „The Necessary East“ at the National Council „Scientific Research“ – MES.
  • Ferenc Deák (Söjtör, 17 October 1803 – Budapest, 28 January 1876). 23 September, 2003, Sofia at the Hungarian Cultural Institute on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ferenc Deák, Hungarian politician, initiator of the 1867 Austro-Hungarian Compromise.
  • The Balkan policy of Austria-Hungary on the eve and during the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. 26-27 September 2003, Sofia.
  • Anton Pelz – associate of Georgi Proshek and Vasil Levski, explorer of Rhodope and Thrace (1870-1877). International Scientific Conference „Foreign Humanities Studying Bulgaria and the Bulgarians“. 11-13 November, 2024, Sofia.
  • Austro-Hungarian Balkan policy for the creation of Macedonian identity among the Bulgarians in Macedonia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries“. National conference with international participation in hybrid form. Minorities and minority groups – challenges and adaptation within the international system. 8-19 June 2025, Sofia