Arpad von Klimo has been teaching Contemporary European History in the rank of Ordinary (Full) Professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, since 2012. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany, and studied History, Art History, Italian and Economics at the universities of Göttingen, Venice, and graduated from FU Berlin (MA 1992, PhD 1995, Habilitation 2001).
His main publications include five monographs, of which Remembering Cold Days. The 1942 Massacre of Novi Sad and the Transformation of Hungarian Society until 1989. (University of Pittsburgh Press) and Hungary since 1945, (Routledge), came out in 2018. He co-edited (with Irina Livezeanu) the Routledge History of East-Central Europe since 1700 (2017).
In 2021, he published the article “Anticommunism and Détente: Mindszenty, the Catholic Church, and Hungarian Émigrés in West Germany, 1972” in Central European History.
Since 2018, he has been Associate Editor of the Hungarian Studies Review (Penn State University Press).
