Department Welcomes Visiting Scholar

13 October 2015 - Thunder Bay, ON

The Department of History is pleased to welcome Dr. Róbert Győri, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, as a Visiting Scholar.

Dr. Győri is associate professor and Chair of the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and head of the Tibor Mendöl Geography and Earth Sciences Workshop at the Eötvös József Collegium of ELTE. His research fields include historical geography, urban geography, and the history of geographical knowledge. His current research focuses on how science was controlled and managed by a totalitarian regime, and how Hungarian geography in particular was crushed as a result of Soviet- era transformations.

Over the next couple of weeks he will be working with Dr. Steven Jobbitt on a number of projects and meeting department members to explore collaborative undegraduate and graduate program and research opportunities.