Monika Baar is currently Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of
Berlin and assistant professor-elect at the Department of History of
the University of Groningen. She holds a PhD in Modern History from the
University of Oxford in 2003, an MA from the Central European
University in Budapest and the School of Slavonic and East European
Studies in London, as well as an MA in Literature and Linguistics and
in History from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
She was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History
of Science in Berlin (2003-2005), lecturer at the University of Essex
(2005-2007), and research fellow at the Centro Incontri Umani in
Ascona, Switzerland (2007-2008).
Her main interests are modern historiography, the intellectual history
of the Romantic era, and the history of academies and learned
societies, with a regional focus on Central Europe. Her book,
Historians and the Nation in the 19th Century, the Case of East-Central
Europe, is forthcoming in the Oxford Historical Monographs Series.