Mark joined Blinken OSA in 2016. While his main task is archival processing, over the past few years he has also curated digital archival collections, supervised interns, prepared a volume of archival materials for publication, written for Blinken OSA’s blog, translated catalog descriptions, and digitized thousands of paper documents. Mark holds a PhD in History from the University of Toronto, an MA in Central European History from Central European University, and an MA in International Relations from Bilkent University in Ankara. In his free time, Mark takes brisk walks in the woods around his home or just reads biographies of important and not so important historical figures of the 20th-century.

This course aims at looking at the roles and uses of human rights documentation in the context of preserving recorded memory and the history of human rights.

Archives, Evidence, and Human Rights (2002-)

 It has been twenty years since journalist and politician Miklós Vásárhelyi’s passing. Between 1984 and 1990, Vásárhelyi was the

“...It Wouldn’t Be Immodest, I Think, to Say that I Built Up the Soros Foundation.”

 It is a cliché that famous people always have a faithful and industrious partner beside (or behind) them, serving

“Highly Important Personal Implications” – On the 50th Anniversary of György Lukács’s Death 

The Poland 1968 Digital Collection focuses on the March 1968 Polish student rebellion and its aftermath.

László-Herbert Mark