Ádám Mézes CEU's first Religious Studies Graduating Doctoral Student

June 4, 2020
CEU student Ádám Mézes successfully defended his thesis summa cum laude at Central European University's Department of History on Wednesday, 3 June 2020. Due to the extraordinary measures introduced by CEU in regard to the Covid-19 virus situation, the defense took place on Zoom. 
His theis entitled Doubt and Diagnosis: Medical Experts and the Returning Dead of the Southern Habsburg Borderland (1718-1766) examines the keen interest in vampires that developed in the eighteenth century. The research focused on gravediggers, surgeons, and physicians of the Habsburg Monarchy, who were entrusted to apply their expertise on diagnosing the vampiric attack and to help regulate the unruly dead. The dissertation argues that the resulting knowledge on vampires was social, political, and bore the mark of the local environment in which it was produced.Details of the detense can be found at the following link:  https://events.ceu.edu/index.php/2020-06-03/doctoral-defense-adam-mezes.
Following this year's commencement ceremony, Ádám will be CEU's first Advanced Certificate in Religious Studies graduating at the doctoral level. Ádám has also participated in CEU's Religious Studies program as an MA student in academic year 2012/13. 
Congratulations, Ádám! The Center for Religious Studies is very proud of your acheivements! 
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