Gyáni, Gábor 1950-
(Gabor Gyani)

PERSONAL: Born July 14, 1950, in Hódmezõvásárhely, Hungary; son of Imre (a teacher) and Margit (a kindergarten teacher; maiden name, Csáki) Gyáni; married Marianne Kaszás (an archivist), November 26, 1977; children: Nóra, Gergely. Ethnicity: "Hungarian." Education: University of Debrecen, master's degree, 1974.

ADDRESSES: Home—Krajcár Str. 4, Dunakeszi, Hungary 2120. Office—Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Úri Str. 53, Budapest, Hungary 1014. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Budapest Capital Archives, Budapest, Hungary, archivist, 1974-82; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, Budapest, senior research fellow, 1982-. University of Budapest, professor, 1994-.

AWARDS, HONORS: Ránki György Prize, Soros Foundation, 1995.

WRITINGS:

Women as Domestic Servants: The Case of Budapest, 1890-1940, Columbia University (New York, NY), 1989.

Hétköznapi Budapest (title means "Everyday Budapest"), Városháza (Budapest, Hungary), 1995.

Magyarország társadalomtörténete a reformkortól a második világháborúig (title means "Social History of Hungary from the Reform Age to World War II"), Osiris (Budapest, Hungary), 1998.

Emlékezés, emlékezet és a történelem elbeszélése (essays; title means "Remembering, Memory, and the Narrative of History"), Napvilág (Budapest, Hungary), 2000.

Parlor and Kitchen Housing and Domestic Culture in Budapest, 1870-1940, CEU Press (New York, NY), 2002.

Történészdiskurzusok (essays; title means "A Historian's Discourses"), L'Harmattan (Paris, France), 2002.

Posztmodern kánon (title means "Postmodern Canon"), Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó (Budapest, Hungary), 2003.

Identity and Urban Experience: The Fin-de-Siecle Budapest, East European Monographs (Boulder, CO), 2004.

(With Gyorgy Kover and Tibor Valuch) Social History of Hungary from the Middle of the Nineteenth to the End of the Twentieth Century, East European Monographs (Boulder, CO), 2004.

Author of more than 280 other works of varying length.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on memory politics in Hungary in the late twentieth century and on social history of the bourgeois middle class in Hungary at the turn of the twentieth century.

SIDELIGHTS: Gábor Gyáni told CA: "My primary motivation for writing flows from a deep research interest in a lot of historical problems. My work has been shaped (not dictated) by conference requests and other suggestions from journal editors. Of course, it is also determined by my own interests."