VÁRDY, Steven Béla

McAnulty College Distinguished Professor

Phone: 412.396.6480
Fax: 412.396.1439
Office: 604B College Hall
vardy@duq.edu

Please note: Dr. Vardy will be retiring in Spring 2014.

Dr. Várdy is a specialist in the history of Russia, East Central Europe, the Habsburg Empire and the Ottoman Empire, as well as the history of immigration. He brings to the classroom an encyclopedic knowledge of these subjects, gained from distinguished career as one of the University’s most prolific scholars. Yet, for all his deep knowledge, his students report that his classes are interesting and enjoyable.

Dr. Várdy has authored or co-authored two dozen books, over a hundred scholarly studies and book chapters, as well as about five hundred encyclopedia articles, essays, book reviews, and newspaper articles. His most important books include: Modern Hungarian Historiography (1976), The Hungarian Americans (1985), Clio’s Art in Hungary and Hungarian America (1985), Triumph in Adversity: Studies in Hungarian Civilization (1988), The Austro-Hungarian Mind (1989), Historical Dictionary of Hungary (1997), Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe (2003), and Stalin’s Gulag: The Hungarian Experience (2007).  In addition to various research grants, Dr. Várdy is the recipient of Duquesne University’s Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship (1984), Hungary’s “Berzseny-Prize” (1992), Invited Membership in the Hungarian Writers’ Federation (1996), the Árpád Academy’s “Gold Medal” (1997), the “Officer’s Cross” awarded by the President of the Republic of Hungary (2001), General Membership in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004), the “Pro Libertate” Diploma from the Rákóczi Foundation of Canada (2005), the “Gold Medal” of the Hungarian Revolutionary Committee on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the anti-Soviet Revolution (2006), and a Honorary Doctorate from the King Louis the Great University (2007).

Ph.D.: Indiana University
B.S.: John Carroll University

Courses Offered:

HIST 151: Shaping of the Modern World
HIST 258: 20th Century Russia
HIST 261: Modern Central Europe
HIST 331: Modern American Immigration
HIST 338: Christianity & Islam: Contending Cultures
HIST 445W/545: Imperial Russia
HIST 446W/546: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
HIST 450/550: The Cold War
HIST 560: New American Immigration