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Revision as of 19:48, 4 June 2013 by DGG (talk | contribs) (Cleanup following WP:AFC creation (AFCH))(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff){ VÁRDY, ÁGNES HUSZÁR, Ph.D., a former Professor of English and Communications at Robert Morris University, is now Adjunct Professor of Comparative Literature at Duquesne University. She is an invited member of the International P.E.N. (1985), and a Plenary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004).
Works
She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven scholarly books and over 100 articles, essays, and reviews. She is also the author of two historical-social novels:
- Mimi (English 1997, 1999, 2007; Hungarian 1997, 2007),
- My Italian Summer (English 2007; Hungarian 2013),
of which the first is used as obligatory reading at several Pittsburgh-based universities.
Her most recent scholarly books -- co-authored or co-edited with Professor Steven Béla Várdy -- include
- Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe (2003)
- Struggles in the New World (2005)
- Stalin’s Gulag: The Hungarian Experience (2007)
- Hungarians in the Slave Labor Camps of the Gulag (2007)
- German Contributions to Western Civilization (2009)
- Hungarian Americans in the Current of History (2010)
Grants
In addition to a dozen major fellowships and research grants, Professor Ágnes Huszár Várdy is the recipient of
- Hungary’s “Berzsenyi-Prize” (1992)
- Árpád Academy’s “Gold Medal” (1998)
- Rákóczi Foundation’s “Pro Libertate Award” (2005)
- Gold Medal of the Hungarian Revolutionary Committee (2006)
- Honorary Doctorate from King Louis the Great University (2007).
She is also an active member of the American Hungarian Educators’ Association (since 1975), as well as of the Hungarian Cultural Society of Western Pennsylvania that she co-founded in 1972.
Most recently Professor Agnes Huszár Várdy was honored -- in company of her husband -- by her colleagues and former students with a Festschrift . Entitled Hungary Through the Centuries: Studies in Honor of Professors Steven Béla Várdy and Agnes Huszár Várdy, this impressive volume was edited by Professor Richard P. Mulcahy of the University of Pittsburgh, with the collaboration of Drs. János Angi and Tibor Glant of the University of Debrecen in Hungary. The book was introduced by one of Professor S. B.Várdy’s most distinguished students, Air Force General Michael Hayden, the former head of the National Security Agency and the CIA under the presidency of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush (1999-2009).
At the moment Professor Ágnes Huszár Várdy -- along with her husband -- is continuing her research on the Soviet Gulag. At the same time she is also working on her third novel.
References
<http://mek.oszk.hu/04000/04038/html/v.htm> <http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-88033-695-6/hungary-through-the-centuries>
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