Friederike Kind-Kovács
Friederike Kind-Kovacs is senior researcher at the Hannah-Arendt-Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at the TU Dresden. Between 2009 and 2018 she was assistant professor of Southeast-and East European History at the University of Regensburg. She is the author of Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain (CEU Press, 2014), a monograph for which she won the University of Southern California Book Prize in Cultural and Literary Studies in 2015. She also co-edited two volumes: From the Midwife’s Bag to the Patient’s File: Public Health in Eastern Europe (CEU Press 2017) and Samizdat, Tamizdat and Beyond. Transnational media during and after socialism. (Berghahn Books 2013). Currently she is working on her second monograph, entitled Budapest’s Children: Children’s Destitution, Humanitarian Relief and the Revisionist Temptation in the Aftermath of the Great War.