The historian Attila Kovacs is a research fellow of the Institute for Ethnic Studies in Ljubljana, leader of the Institute’s research group based in Lendava and associated professor of University of Maribor. His main research field is the history of ethnic Hungarians in Slovenia and connected to it history of some other smaller Hungarian minority communities; agrarian reforms and colonisations in Central Europe in the 20^th century and the ’56’s Hungarian refugee question. At the university he keeps lectures on history of Hungary. Leader of many Slovenian research projects and participates in many Slovenian and international research projects. Speaks Slovenian, Serbian, Croatian and Hungarian fluently and German fairly well.

Contact:

Phone: +386 02 578 87 18

e-mail: attila.kovacs@guest.arnes.si

Research themes

Selected bibliography

Whole bibliography (Cobiss)

Current projects

• Comparative Study of the Functioning of the Protection System in Situation of Crisis, with Regard to Refugee Issues: problems of Hungarian refugees after WWII, and particularly in 1956-57 in Slovenia

• Hungarian Community and the Cooperation with Scientific, Research and University Institutions in Hungary

• Dimensions of Linguistic Otherness: Prospects and Maintenance and Revitalization of Minority Languages (DILING)