At the CEU Review of Books, our mission is to engage and review a diverse array of forward-thinking scholarship that brings clarity and insight to confusing times.

Rather than promoting a particular school of thought, we encourage open discussion from both new and established voices that challenge conventional assumptions and foster intellectual community.

From a region that is often at the faultline of global tensions, and yet underrepresented in global discourse, the CEU Review of Books offers an in-depth perspective on the most prescient questions that affect all of us.

We publish reviews in English of books written in any language across the social sciences and humanities.

If you would like to write for us, please contact ceureviewofbooks@press.ceu.edu

Editors

Andrea Talabér is Managing Editor of the CEU Review of Books. Andrea has almost a decade of experience in academic publishing. She has an MRes from UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. Prior to publishing, she held various research and academic teaching positions in the United Kingdom, Italy, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania. Andrea is especially interested in making academic research and ideas from Central and Eastern Europe accessible to wider audiences.

Constantin Iordachi is Editor-in-Chief of the CEU Review of Books. He is a professor at the Department of History, Central European University, Vienna. He is the co-editor of the journal East Central Europe since almost two decades and is consultant editor of the journal Fascism: Comparative Fascist Studies and President of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (ComFas). Constantin has published widely on comparative approaches to historical research; totalitarianism and mass politics; and citizenship and minorities in Central and Southeastern Europe.

Judit Sándor is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the CEU Review of Books. She is a full professor at the Faculties of Political Science, Legal Studies and Gender Studies of the Central European University (CEU). She has held fellowships at McGill University, at Stanford University, at the University of Chicago, at Maison des sciences de l’homme, and at New York University (NYU). She has a multidisciplinary interest that connects humanities with social sciences and even STEM fields and explores the interconnectedness of bioethics and human rights in the fields of health care, data protection, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence. Since September 2005 she has been the founding director of the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) at the CEU. Since 2020 she has been working on a six-year project as one of the four Principal Investigators of LEVIATHAN, a Synergy Project funded by the European Research Council, on the post-war history and legacy of health care in Europe.

Judit is the author and editor of eleven books in the field of human rights and biomedical law, including Az én molekulám[My Molecule], Biobanks and Tissue Research, Studies in Biopolitics, and Perfect Copy?. 

Advisory Board

• Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg)
• Holly Case (Brown)
• Nathalie Clayer (EHESS)
• Rosemary Deller (LSE)
• Éva Fodor (CEU)
• Xymena Kurowska (CEU)
• Jasmina Lukic (CEU)
• Anna Mazurkiewicz (Gdańsk)
• Markian Prokopovych (Durham)