Michal Kšiňan a Visiting Fellow of our project between October-November 2021 in Budapest in the frame of his fellowship SAS-UPJS ERC Visiting Fellowship Grants.
Michal Kšiňan defended his PhD theses in history in 2011 summa cum laude en cotutelle between University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he later lectured, and the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, where he currently works. He wrote several books about Štefánik (e.g. Milan Rastislav Štefánik. The Slovak National Hero and Co-Founder of Czechoslovakia, Routledge, 2021), edited or coedited 6 volumes and published more than twenty scientific papers on different topics.
His works were published in Slovak, French, English, Italian, German and Russian.
He is the recipient of several prestigious scholarships and awards, including the Prize of the President of the Slovak Republic for the Best Student of Slovakia (2011) or Fulbright (2014). Since June 2021, he is member of the Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
He is a Visiting Fellow of our project between October-November 2021 in Budapest in the frame of his fellowship SAS-UPJS ERC Visiting Fellowship Grants.