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	Alexander Vari <vari@marywood.edu> Marywood University

Address:	2300 Adams Ave. Social Sciences Department Scranton, Pennsylvania 18509 United States

Primary Phone:	(570) 348-6211

Fax Number:	(570) 340-6012

Web Page:	http://www.marywood.edu/departments/socsci/faculty.stm

List Affiliations:	Review Editor for H-Urban

Interests:	Urban History / Studies

Bio: Assistant Professor of Modern European History, Marywood University Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005-06 Ph.D. Brown University, 2005 M.A. Brown University, 1999 B.A. Babes-Bolyai University, 1988 Publications: "Disappearing Montmartre: Anchoring the Memory of A Neighborhood in Interwar Paris" in (Im) permanence: Cultures in/out of time, edited by Judith Schachter and Stephen Brockmann, (Pittsburgh: Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, distributed by Penn State University Press, 2008), 73-87. "Economic Development, State Patriotism and Ethnic Conflict: Recent Works on Habsburg History" History: Reviews of New Books, 36 (2007) 1: 13-17. "From Friends of Nature to Tourist-Soldiers: Nation Building and Tourism in Hungary, 1873-1914" in Turizm: The Russian and Eastern European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism, edited by Anne Gorsuch and Diane Koenker (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006), 64-81. "Exile, Urban Tourism and Identity: Hungarian Travelers in Paris, 1918-1940", Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, 7 (2006) 1: 81-109. Presentations: "Re-territorializing the 'Guilty City': Nationalist and Right-Wing Attempts to Nationalize Budapest during the Interwar Period" Association for the Study of Nationalities World Conference, Columbia University, New York City, NY, April 2009 "From 'Paris of the East' to 'Queen of Danube': International Models in the Promotion of Budapest Tourism, 1885-1940" American Historical Asociation Annual Convention, New York City, NY, January 2009 "Nation Building and City Marketing: Turn-of-the-Century Exhibitions in Budapest and Bucharest", American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA, November 2008 "Urban Planning, Mega-Events and the Selling of the Central and Eastern European Cityscapes, 1860-1940", Cityscapes Conference, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, March 2008 "Places for Leisure and Fun? Re-Inventing Budapest's Nightlife, 1957-1975", Section on Popular Culture in Eastern Europe, National Popular Culture & American Culture Association's Joint Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 2008 "Between Local Realities and Global Aims: Paris's and Budapest's Location in the Transnational Urban Networks of the 1920s and 1930s", European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 2006 "Salzburg, Szeged, Edinburgh, Avignon: Comparing the History of four Summer Festivals in Europe in the Twentieth-Century", Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2006 "Globalizing Cities in Eastern Europe: The Trope of Paris in Budapest's and Bucharest's Urban Marketing Discourses, 1870-1940", Romanian Studies Center Conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2005 "From 'Paris of the East' to 'Queen of the Danube': Budapest's Urban Representation and Touristic Marketing Strategies between Desire and Reality, 1870s to the 1930s", Second Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, Milwaukee, WI, October 2004