Steven Béla Várdy, Ph.D.


Duquesne University, Department of History
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15282 USA
Tel. (412) 396-6470 or 6480; Fax: (412) 396-5197
E-mail: Svardy@aol.com   or   Vardy@duq.edu

        McAnulty Distinguished Professor of European History, longtime Director of the Duquesne History Forum, former Chairman of the Department of History at Duquesne University, and Adjunct Professor of East European History at the University of Pittsburgh, Professor Várdy is a specialist of the history and culture of East Central Europe, the Habsburg Empire, Balkans, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire. He also writes and teaches in the field of Russian/Soviet, as well as American ethnic and immigration history.
        A recipient of numerous major research grants and fellowships (Ford, IREX, NEH, Rockefeller, Hunkele, Carnegie, DANK, Hillman, Nobel J. Dick, etc.), Professor Várdy has researched and/or lectured at some of the most prominent universities and cultural institutions in the United States, as well as in Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, England, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Soviet Union (Ukraine), Turkey, and Yugoslavia. He served twice as Visiting Scholar at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1969-1970, 1975-1976), and once at the University of Budapest (1975-1976). In 1990 he circumnavigated the world, while serving as Professor of European and Near Eastern History aboard the S.S.Universeunder the auspices of the "Semester at Sea" program.
        A prolific scholar of wide renown, Professor Várdy has published well over a dozen books and 450 articles, chapters, and essays in various American and European periodicals, collective volumes, encyclopedias, and scholarly handbooks. His more important books include: Baron Joseph Eötvös: A Liberal Hungarian Thinker and Statesman (1967), Modern Hungarian Historiography  (1976), Clio's Art in Hungary and in Hungarian-America (1985), The Hungarian-Americans (1985), Baron Joseph Eötvös: A Literary Biography (1987), The Austro-Hungarian Mind: At Home and Abroad, with A. H. Várdy (1989), Historical Dictionary of Hungary (1997), and the Hungarian-language work Magyarok az Újvilágban [Hungarians in the New World]  (Budapest, 2000).  He is the co-author of the History of the Hungarian Nation, with D. G. Kosáry (1969), and the author the bilingual Hungarian Historiography and the Geistesgeschichte School (1974). Professor Várdy has also written books for popular consumption, among them The Hungarian Americans: The Hungarian Experience in North America(1989), and Attila the Hun(1990).
        Professor Várdy's edited works include: Society in Change: Studies in Honor of Béla K. Király, with A. H. Várdy (1983), Louis the Great, King of Hungary and Poland,  with G. Grosschmid and L. S. Domonkos (1986), and Triumphin Adversity: Studies in Hungarian Civilization, with A. H. Várdy (1988). Several of his works have been used as textbooks at Hungary's four main universities, and his Modern Hungarian Historiography  is now in the process of translation.
    During the past three decades, Professor Várdy's scholarly articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in such national and international periodicals and yearbooks as The American Historical Review, Slavic Review, The Catholic Historical Review, Studies for a New Central Europe, Austrian History Yearbook, Turkish Review, Nationalities Papers, Journal of Social History, Duquesne Review, Ethnic Forum, Speculum, The World and I, Hungarian Studies, Eurasian Studies Yearbook , The Canadian-American Review of Hungarian Studies (Kingston, Ontario), Canadian Ethnic Studies (Calgary, Alberta), Hungarian Studies Review  (Toronto, Canada), Ungarn-Jahrbuch (Munich, Germany), Südost-Forschungen (Munich), Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher (Wiesbaden, Germany), Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (Munich), Documentation sur l'Europe Centrale (Louvain-Löwen, Belgium), The Journal of Economic History (Rome, Italy), Studi Finno-Ugrici (Naples, Italy), Balkan Studies (Thessaloniki, Greece), Krónika (Cleveland), Új Látóhatár (Munich), Magyar Történelmi Szemle (Buenos Aires), Valóság (Budapest), História (Budapest), Kapu (Budapest), Nyelvünk és Kultúránk (Budapest), Magyar Napló (Budapest), Magyarok (Budapest), Hitel (Budapest), AETAS  (Szeged, Hungary), Magyar Egyháztörténeti Vázlatok (Szeged, Hungary), Debreceni Szemle (Debrecen, Hungary), Forrás  (Kecskemét, Hungary), and Korunk  (Cluj-Kolozsvár, Romania).
    Professor Várdy has also contributed articles to such prominent encyclopedias as the McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography (1973), Academic American Encyclopedia (1980), The World Book Encyclopedia (1979, 1986, 1988), Encyclopedia Americana(1986), The Grolier International Encyclopedia (1991), Encyclopaedia Hungarica (1997), Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (1995), Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia (1997), and Encyclopedia of Modern Eastern Europe (2000), Encyclopedia of European Social History (2000), and Encyclopaedia Britannica (2000).
    In 1984 Professor Várdy received Duquesne University's "Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship," and in 1992 he was co-recipient with Agnes Huszár Várdy of Hungary's "Berzsenyi Prize," and in 1997 he was awarded the "Árpád Gold Medal." In the same year he was elected member of the Hungarian Writers' Federation, and in 1998 he was named "McAnulty Distinguished Professor of European History" at Duquesne University.
    Professor Várdy is a member of over a dozen social, cultural, scholarly, and civic organizations. He is an active member of The Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh and of the Pittsburgh Opera Guild. He is the founding President of the Hungarian Cultural Society of Western Pennsylvania (1973), twice past President of the American Association for the Study of Hungarian History  (an affiliate of the American Historical Association), and board member both of the World Federation of Hungarian Historians, and of the International Association for Hungarian Language and Culture. He is likewise an elected member of the Árpád Academy of Arts and Sciences (USA), invited member of the International P.E.N. (1985), elected member of the Hungarian Writers' Federation (1987), and more recently, the Chairman of the Pittsburgh-based Institute for German American Relations (1988).