Barnabas Balint
Barnabas Balint is an historian of the Holocaust, specialising in the history of Jewish responses to persecution in Hungary and France. He completed his doctorate in History at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Before starting the DPhil, he completed an undergraduate degree in History at the University of Exeter in 2019, where he was awarded the Jean Henderson Prize for the Finalist with Best Academic Performance in European History, after which he read for a master’s at Oxford in 2020.
Barnabas has held fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, the University of Southern California, the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London, and at Yad Vashem under the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Conny Kristel Fellowship.
He has published widely on Holocaust history, with research articles in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, European Review of History, Jewish Culture and History and The Journal of Holocaust Research.
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curriculum vitae
Education
University of Oxford – Magdalen College, Doctor of Philosophy in History
University of Oxford – Magdalen College, Master of Studies in History
University of Exeter – Bachelor of Arts with Honours in History with proficiency in advanced French
Research Fellowships
2025-6: Research Fellow, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, Vienna
2025-6: Visiting Research Fellow, University College London Institute of Advanced Studies, London
2024-5: Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance Research Fellowship at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC
2023-4: Scouloudi Fellowship, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, London
2022-3: Conny Kristel Fellowship, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
2021-2: Breslauer, Rutman, and Anderson Research Fellow, University of Southern California Shoah Foundation/Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Los Angeles
Professional Employment
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust – Communications Officer, 2021-2
Magdalen College, Oxford – Covid-19 Asymptomatic Testing Trainer & Coordinator, 2020
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