The institute has appointed Ágnes Fülemile to head the Hungarian Cultural Center in New York. Antal Molnár will take over as director of the Hungarian Academy in Rome and András Baranyi will head the Hungarian Cultural, Scientific and Information Centre in Moscow.
The new heads will take their positions from September. They are to promote abroad a unified, value-oriented image of the country as well as foster and develop ties with Hungarian minorities outside of the country?s borders.
Fülemile is an ethnographer with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences? Ethnography Research Institute. She studied art history, history and ethnography at Budapest?s Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), getting her Ph.D. in 1997.
Between 1990 and 2006, Fülemile was a regular lecturer at University of California?s Education Abroad Program at ELTE and at the Study Abroad Program of CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) at Budapest?s Corvinus University. She taught at Indiana University Bloomington in 2006-2009.
In 1992-1993, with a Fulbright grant, she spent half a year at the Anthropology Department of the University of California Berkeley and another half a year at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York.
Fűlemile won the Hungarian Academy of Sciences? Youth Prize in 1991 and the Jánkó Prize of the Hungarian Ethnography Association in 1994. She was made an honorary member of the Finnish Ethnography Association in 1997.
Molnár is a historian and university lecturer, and deputy head at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences? Historical Studies Institute. He graduated with degrees in Latin and history from ELTE in 1996 and got his Ph.D. in literary studies from the University of Szeged in 1996. He completed a Ph.D. in history at the Université de Paris in 2002.
Molnár has taught in higher education since 1995, first at the Eőtvős József College, then at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University and ELTE. He started working for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences? Historical Studies Institute in 1997 and was named deputy head in 2011.
Molnár has headed the archives of the Society of Jesus? order in Hungary since 1997.
He has done research on scholarship in Paris, Rome, Dubrovnik, Zagreb and Belgrade, focussing on church and art history, the Vatican , the Turkish occupation and the history of the Balkan peninsula.
Molnár won the Klaniczay Tibor Prize in 2002, the Palládium Prize in 2003, the Talentum Academy Prize in 2004 and the Szakály Ferenc Prize in 2006. He is a member of the Hungarian-Bulgarian and the Hungarian-Serb Mixed Committee of Academic Historians as well as a member of the editorial boards of the journals Scrina Slavonca and Történelmi Szemle.
Baranyi is a lawyer and interpreter. He earned his law degree from ELTE in 2001.
From 1995, he worked for eight years as a news editor and reporter for Hungarian Radio?s Foreign Broadcasts Desk. For three years from 2001, he was programme director for the Agora Carpathian Basin Service and Information Office Network. Baranyi worked as a programme manager for VATI Nonprofit from 2004 and as a director for the Strategic Services Office from 2008. In the autumn of 2008, he started work as a director of the Joint Professional Secretariat of the Hungarian ?Slovakian-Romanian-Ukrainian European Neighbourhood and Partnership Cross-Border Cooperation Programme.
Baranyi is an interpreter at state meetings at the highest level between Hungary and Russia and Hungary and Ukraine.
