Ivan Berend#
| Membership Number: | 234 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1990 - 2015 Distinguished Professor at Department of History, University of California
- 1993 - 2005 Director at Center for European and Eurasian Studies at University of California Los Angeles
- 1964 - 1991 Professor at Department of Economic History at Budapest University of Economics
- 1960 - 1964 Associate Professor at Department of Economic History at Budapest University of Economics
- 1953 - 1960 Assistant Professor at Department of Economic History at Budapest University of Economics
- 1958 Ph.D. in History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- 1957 Doctor degree in Economics, Budapest University of Economics
Fields of Scholarship
- Complex economic, social, ideological, and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th-20th Century
- Transition from state socialism to capitalism
- European Union
- Problems of European peripheral backwardness
- Economic modernization
- Social and economic history of Europe
- Contemporary Europe
- 19-20th centuries
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Member of the Americal Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2000 Konstantin-Jirasek Gold Medal for life achievement in the research of Central and Eastern European history
- 1996 Honorary member of the Portuguese Association of International Relations
- 1995 Honorary doctor of Janus Pannonius University, Hungary
- 1990 Honorary doctor of Glasgow University
- 1989 Corresponding member of the British Academy
- 1989 Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy
- 1989 Corresponding member of the Sudosteuropa-Gesellschaft
- 1989 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1988 Honorary member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
- 1988 Honorary member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 1986 Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities
- 1984 Honorary doctor of St. John's University, New York
- 1980 Corresponding member of the Royal Historical Society
- 1973 Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
