Emese Lafferton
Assistant Professor
History
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
She is a historian of science, medicine and technology, currently offering courses on various topics at the intersection of science, race, and gender at CEU. In the past decade before coming to Budapest she taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh in the UK and held prestigious research fellowships at various European and North American academic institutions (Wellcome Trust, Marie Curie, Fulbright, Carnegie Trust).
Research Interest
Her general research interests include: the history of life sciences, psychiatry, eugenics, racial thinking, evolutionary theories, hereditary theories, physical anthropology and ethnography; the history of science, empire, and nationalism; the history and sociology of medicine.
Publications
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What the files reveal. The social make-up of public mental asylums in Hungary, 1860s-1910s. Lafferton E. Med Ges Gesch. 2006;26:83-101. No abstract available.
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Science, medicine and nationalism in the Habsburg Empire from the 1840s to 1918. Buklijas T, Lafferton E. Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci. 2007 Dec;38(4):679-86. Epub 2007 Nov 13. No abstract available.
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The Magyar moustache: the faces of Hungarian state formation, 1867-1918. Lafferton E. Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci. 2007 Dec;38(4):706-32. Epub 2007 Nov 19.
