University of Florida
Orientalism for the Nation: Jews and Oriental Scholarship in Modern Hungary
Katalin Franciska Rac earned her doctorate from the University of Florida in 2014. Her dissertation studies the mutual influence between Orientalism and Jewish integration in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Hungary. During her doctoral research in 2011–2012, she was a Leo Baeck Fellow and during the 2013–2014 academic year she was a recipient of an ACLS dissertation fellowship in East European studies. Her areas of scholarly interest include the history of the idea of Europe, modern European Jewish intellectual and cultural history, the history of Oriental studies in Europe, and European gastronomic history. Katalin Franciska Rac is the Jewish studies librarian at Emory University.
Conference papers
“Orientals Among The People Of The East: Nationalism, Orientalism and the Jewish Question,”RomeConference Empires and Nations, June 2013, Rome, Italy
“The Self-Orientalism of the People of the East: Hungarian Concepts of Nationhood in the Dualist Era,” 42nd ASEEES National Convention, November 2010,Los Angeles California
“Sharing Origins: Hungarian Jewish Historiography in the Service of Jewish Integration and the Documentation of Uniqueness,” 15th ASN National Convention, New York City, April 2010
“Nationalism and Gastronomy: Paprika on the Table of the Hungarian Nation,” 48th Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, March 2010,Gainesville,Florida
Teaching
“The Art of Making War and Peace,” 2014
“A Cultural History of European Diplomacy 1648-1945,” 2012
“The History of the Holocaust,” 2011
“Nineteenth-Century Europe,” 2010