Graduate Program
Madalina Veres
Email: mvv3@pitt.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Fields:
Early-modern European history
History of Cartography/Historical Geography
The Habsburg Monarchy
Texts and Contexts
PhD research topic:
My proposed research concentrates on eighteenth century Habsburg cartographic projects and their relationship to administrative, military, and financial imperial reforms. I plan to analyze the role of Habsburg cartography in the process of imperial consolidation and expansion by focusing not only on an imperial level, but also on a provincial and a trans-imperial one.
Teaching Experience:
Soviet Russia (Spring 2011)
Introduction to Western Civilization (Fall 2010)
Introduction to Islamic Civilization (Spring 2010)
Russia to 1860 (Fall 2009)
Conference Presentations:
"Putting Transylvania on the map: Cartography and Enlightened Absolutism in the Habsburg Monarchy,” paper presented as part of the panel “Aufklärung und Modernisierung in Siebenbürgen und im Banat,” at the 13th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Graz, July 24th-29th, 2011.
"Putting Transylvania on the map: Cartography and Enlightened Absolutism in the Habsburg Monarchy,” poster presented at the 24th International Conference on the History of Cartography, Moscow, July 10th-15th, 2011.
"Reconciling Marie-Antoinette’s Identities: the Austrian Queen of France and her futile quest for acceptance,” awarded Outstanding Paper Presentation Award at the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 11th Annual Graduate Expo, March 24, 2011.
"The Alliance between Cartography and State in the Habsburg Monarchy in the Age of the Enlightenment,” presented at the Graduate Student Workshop “East-Central Europe and the Transnational Experience,” Cornell University, March 4-5, 2011.
"Mapping Borders: Consolidating and Expanding Habsburg Imperial Frontiers in the late eighteenth century,” presented at the Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE, March 4-6, 2010.
"Hanuri, spânzurători şi staţii de poştă pe harta iozefină”, presented at the national conference organized by the Association of the History Students from Bucharest University, Bucharest, May 3-5, 2007.
Fellowships, Awards:
Arts and Sciences Social Science Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships, University of Pittsburgh (2011-2012)
The European Studies Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2011)
Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2010)
Elizabeth Baranger Excellence In Teaching Award, awarded by the Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Organization, University of Pittsburgh (2010)
Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2009)
Arts and Sciences Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2008)
Erasmus Scolarship, Universita degli Studi di Catania, Italy (February 2008 – May 2008)