“Analyzing Hungarian Jewish Displaced Persons Using the International Tracing Service (ITS) Archive: An Interdisciplinary Approach.”
Professional Background
Dr. Ildikó Barna is associate professor of sociology at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest (Hungary) where she also serves as a head of the Department for Social Research Methodology. She received a PhD in Sociology from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) (Hungary) in 2009. She is a native speaker of Hungarian, fluent in English, and possesses reading language skills in German, and Russian. While in residence at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Dr. Barna conducted research on her project, “Analyzing Hungarian Jewish Displaced Persons using the International Tracing Service (ITS) Archive: An Interdisciplinary Approach.”
Dr. Barna has written a number of publications, including: Túlélőkészlet az SPSS-hez. Többváltozós elemzési technikákról társadalomkutatók számára. [Survival Kit to SPSS. Multivariate Techniques for Social Researchers.], co-authored with Mária Székelyi (2002); A siker fénytörései [The Refractions of Success], co-authored with Mária Székelyi, Antal Örkény, and György Csepeli (2005); and Political Justice in Budapest after World War II, co-authored with Andrea Pető (2015). Her presentations include: "Jewish Identity in Transition Changing Strength and Content," European Association of Jewish Studies Conference, Sorbonne and Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, and "Hungarian Postwar Justice through the People’s Tribunal of Budapest: Quantitative Research on Archival Data," at The Holocaust in Eastern Europe in the Records of the International Tracing Service Digital Archive in May 2014 at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.
Fellowship Research
For her Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Fellowship for Research in the International Tracing Service Archive, Professor Barna utilized an interdisciplinary approach to gain a better understanding of those Hungarian Jews who did want to return to Hungary after the Holocaust and those who emigrated from the country just after WWII.
Dr. Ildikó Barna was in residence at the Mandel Center from August 1 to November 30, 2015.