Krisztián Csaplár-Degovics is a historian dealing with the Balkan-policy and of the colonial past of Austria-Hungary with the toolkit of new imperial history; the nation- and state-building processes in the Balkans; Humanitarian Interventions on the Balkans; the history of Albania, Serbia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia in the 19th and 20th century; and with Hungarian imperialism and empire building in the long 19th century.
As a senior research fellow and head of a department dealing with Southeast European Studies, he is working for the Research Centre for the Humanities, Historical Institute in Budapest (former Hungarian Academy of Sciences).
Educated at the Eötvös-Loránd-University in Budapest (history, archive studies) he obtained his PhD-degree in 2008. In 2019, he earned his habilitation degree from the ELTE-University in Budapest. After teaching at the ELTE-University (2001-2004), he was an academic co-worker of the Südost-Institut in Munich (2003-2004), and of the Library of the Albanien-Institut at the Institute for East European History at the University of Vienna (2005-2006). Between 2008-2012 he worked as teaching assistant and assistant professor at the ELTE-University.
Between 2011-2017 he was the editor of the book series Edition Ungarische Geschichte in Berlin (Osteuropa-Zentrum Berlin-Verlag), and since 2023 he is a member of the editorial and scientific board of Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies. He participated in the international projects of Ethnodoc (Südost-Institut of Munich, 2003-2004); 1989: Revolution, transition and political change. The Post-communist Transformation in Eastern Europe (Visegrad Fund, No. 20910364/9 – 2010; 2009-2010) and of the FWF-Projekt Nr. P 21477-G18 Politics and Society in Late Ottoman Kosovo (1870-1913).
