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Steven Béla Várdy (born 1935) Ph.D., is McAnulty Distinguished Professor of European History at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is Director of Duquesne University History Forum, and former Chairman of its Department of History. He is an invited member of the International P.E.N.(1985), President of the Institute of German American Relations (1995), and a Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004, 2010).
He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of nearly two dozen books and over six-hundred articles, essays, and reviews. His most recent books include:
The last six co-authored or co-edited with Ágnes Huszár Várdy.
Várdy is the recipient of
In 2000 his former students and colleagues on two continents honored him with a Festschrift (Commemorative Volume )titled Hungary's Historical Legacies: Studies in Honor of Steven Bela Várdy This was repeated in 2012, when mostly other students and colleagues honored him and his wife (his scholarly collaborator) with another Festschrift. Entitled Hungary Through the Centuries: Studies in Honor of Professors Steven Béla Várdy and Agnes Huszár Várdy, this book was edited by Professor Richard P. Mulcahy of the University of Pittsburgh, with the collaboration of Drs. János Angi and Tibor Glant of the University of Debrecen in Hungary. This book was introduced by one ofhis most distinguished former students, Air Force General Michael Hayden, former head of the National Security Agency and the CIA.
Already a Plenary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2004, in 2010 he was elected a regular External Member of the same Academy.
Várdy is involved in two major research projects dealing with the Soviet Gulag slave labor camps, and with the post-World War II political emigration from Hungary to the United States. When writing in Hungarian, he writes under the name of “Várdy Béla.”