Alumni Stories

Alumnus Miljan Publishes Book

July 11, 2018
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Alumnus and historian Goran Miljan (HIST MA '09; PhD '16) recently published his book Croatia and the Rise of Fascism: the Youth Movement and the Ustasha During WWII.

In early 2016 he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, "Young, Militarized, and Radical: The Ustasha Youth Organization, Ideology, and Practice, 1941-1945” with Summa Cum Laude. Congratulations, Goran! 

In Her Own Words: Natalia Szczucka

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CEU alumna Natalia Szczucka (SOCI PhD ’06) works as Head of the European Commission’s Regional Representation in Wrocław, Poland. Previously she served as Director for Organizational Development at Amnesty International’s European Office in Brussels, as well as for the Office of the High Representative in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor.

On June 23, she Natalia congratulated CEU’s Class of 2018 as Alumni Speaker at this year’s Graduation ceremony.

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In His Own Words: Jaap Scholten (SOCL ’09)

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Alumnus Jaap Scholten (SOCL ’09, Netherlands) was 44 years old and an accomplished novelist when he began study at CEU. After graduating he converted his MA thesis, detailing the fate of Hungarian nobles under forced collectivization, into a prize-winning bestseller. Comrade Baron: A Journey through the Vanishing World of the Transylvanian Aristocracy was published in Dutch in 2010; an English version appeared three years later.

Ákos Gyula Deliága (BUSI MBA ’16)

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Ákos is a CEU Business School alumnus and co-founder and managing director of the Talk-A-Bot startup. He has more than nine years’ experience at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, in international business development, and holds both an MBA and MSc in IT engineering. A husband and father, Ákos is 33 years old.

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Alumna Baiocchi Wins Women's Studies Fellowship

April 6, 2018
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CEU Alumna Maria Baiocchi (SOCI '08) was recently named a 2018 Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Fellow. The program supports PhD candidates in the humanities and social sciences, in their final year of dissertation writing, whose work addresses women’s and gendered issues in interdisciplinary and original ways.