Cody James Inglis; Visiting Fellowship 2022/23
Cody James Inglis (*1993, Phoenix, Arizona) is a Doctoral Candidate in Comparative History at Central European University (Budapest/Vienna). His research interests include the history of political thought in Central and Southeastern Europe between 1848 and 1948—predominantly on the political Left—the history of key socio-political concepts in the region, the history of historiography, and a further methodological interest in relating intellectual and social history more closely to each other. His dissertation, entitled “The Republican Left in Danubian Europe, 1900–1948: A Comparative History of Political Thought,” is a multilingual regional study of left-wing republicanism in the late Habsburg Empire and its successor states from the fin-de-siècle through the post-Second World War reconstruction period. Currently, he is employed as Junior Researcher on the European Research Council Consolidator Grant project “Negotiating post-imperial transitions,” hosted by the Institute of Political History (Politikatörténeti Intézet) in Budapest. There, he is a co-leader of the project’s fourth work package, entitled “Discourses of Transition.”
Visiting Fellowship October-November 2022
At the Institute of Contemporary History, I will undertake a few different tasks, the first of which will be to avail myself of the excellent collections that comprise the INZ Library. While in Ljubljana, I will expand my source research to include holdings at the National and University Library as well as the Archive of the Republic of Slovenia, among others. Second, I will revise and expand an existing article manuscript for publication as well as finish a work-in-progress draft of a research chapter for my dissertation. Indeed, my hope is that a fruitful exchange of ideas and knowledge with my newfound (albeit temporary) colleagues at INZ will generate plenty of inspiration to write. My third task is related to this latter point, namely to engage in consultations with historians and other academics both at INZ and at different institutions around Ljubljana, namely at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana as well as at the Scientific Research Center of the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. And finally—of course!—I will use this time to improve my Slovene-language skills.
