Emily Gioielli is a Fellow at Pasts Inc: Center for Historical Studies at Central European University (Budapest–Vienna) and will be an assistant teaching professor of history in the Humanities and Arts Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute starting in August 2021. Her research focuses on the history of violence and regime change from a transdisciplinary perspective and the history of women, gender, and sexuality in twentieth-century East Central Europe. She holds a PhD in Comparative History from Central European University (Budapest), and she has received support for her research from the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Rockefeller Archive Center, and the Open Society Archives in Budapest.
RCC Research Project: Cataclysm: Water and the Holocaust in Central Europe, 1933–1945
Selected Publications:
- “Women, Gender and Political Imprisonment in the Hungarian Siberia,” in The War that Never Ended, edited collection by Kamil Ruszała (forthcoming 2021).
- “The Many Lives of Mrs. Hamburger: Gender, Violence, and Counter-Revolution, 1919–1930,” in In the Shadow of World War One, Rudolf Kučera and Ota Konrad, eds. (Berghahn 2020).
- “Violence and the Production of Jewish Identity in Hungary’s ‘War after the War,’” in Dimensionen der Gewalt Ostmitteleuropa zwischen Weltkrieg und Bürgerkrieg 1918–1921, edited by Jochen Böhler, Włodzimierz Borodziej und Joachim von Puttkamer (Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2020).
- with Péter Csunderlik, Gábor Egry, János Fodor, and Tibor Hajdu, Kérdések és válaszok 1918–1919-ről [Questions and answers about 1918–1919], Napvilág Kiadó, 2018.
- “Abnormal Times: Intersectionality and Anti-Jewish Violence in Hungary and Poland, 1918-1922,” Polin, vol. 31, thematic issue “Poland and Hungary: Jewish Realities Compared,” edited by Howard Lupovitch and Antony Polonsky (December 2018).
- “‘Home is Home No Longer’: Political Struggle in the Domestic Sphere in Post-Armistice Hungary, 1919-1922,” Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, vol. 11 (March 2017): 54–70.