Research Interests
Máté Zombory, PhD senior research fellow at the Centre for Social Sciences in Budapest. He obtained his PhD in 2010, his dissertation was published in Hungarian and English in 2011 and 2012 respectively. His field of interest is the historical sociology of transnational and cultural memory. His current research projects include the Cold War history of Holocaust documentation with particular attention to the work of Hungarian journalist and author Jenő Lévai, supported by the Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah, Paris, and the history and memory of international antifascim. His recent publications include Traumatársadalom. Az emlékezetpolitika történeti-szociológiai kritikája [Trauma Society. A Historical-Sociological Critique of the Politics of Memory] (2019) and a number of articles in journals such as Memory Studies, Journal of cold War Studies, Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, Múltunk, Korall, Szociológiai Szemle.
Selected Publications
Zombory, Máté (2025) For an Antifascist Historiography of the Jewish Genocide JOURNAL OF GENOCIDE RESEARCH 27 : 3 pp. 537-542. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2025.2533552
Kékesi, Zoltán ; Zombory, Máté (2025) Beyond multidirectional memory: Opening pathways to politics and solidarity MEMORY STUDIES 17 : 6 pp. 1664-1683. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231176040
Kékesi, Zoltán ; Zombory, Máté (2024) The Postwar Fight Against Fascism: Auschwitz Memory in Leftist Activism JOURNAL OF GENOCIDE RESEARCH https://doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2024.2410049
Zombory, Máté (2024) Moral Universalism in the East: Anti-Fascist Humanism and the Memory of the Holocaust in Zoltán Fábri’s Film Late Season (1967) In: Koch, Anna; Stach, Stephan (eds.) Holocaust Memory and the Cold War : Remembering across the Iron Curtain. Oldenburg: De Gruyter (2024) pp. 201-222.
Zombory, Máté (2023) Holocaust Historian or Anti-fascist Nazi Hunter?: Jenő Lévai's Comeback at the End of the 1950s In: Steinbacher, Sybille; von Puttkamer, Joachim; Rauschenberger, Katharina (eds.) Investigating, Punishing, Agitating : Nazi Perpetrator Trials in the Eastern Bloc Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2023) 336 p. pp. 58-77.
