Waterbury awarded Fulbright to study Hungary and ethnic identity in the European neighborhood
Published: May 11, 2021
Author: Staff reports
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Dr. Myra Waterbury (right) leads a seminar in comparative politics in 2015.
Dr. Myra Waterbury was recently named a Fulbright Scholar and will be headed to Budapest in the spring of 2022 to conduct research on Hungary's disparate populations.
Waterbury, professor of political science at Ohio University, said that "Hungary can be understood as existing in a state of 'divided nationhood' in which the government must navigate a long-standing commitment to kin-minorities — communities of ethnic kin living as national minorities in neighboring countries — as well as manage its relationship to diaspora communities generated by earlier waves of emigration and to communities of more recent emigrants within the European Union."