About
My passions include teaching and Slovakia–a strange combination that has afforded me experience teaching at the secondary level in Slovakia and has led me to complete my Ph.D. in East Central European History in order to publish and teach at the university level.
Dr. Manor Mullins earned her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 2013. A Fulbright Scholar, she conducted research for her dissertation in Kosice, Slovakia, the city where she lived and worked for 7 years. Her published work focuses on the history of Kosice and eastern Slovakia’s experience during the turning points of Czechoslovakia’s postwar history (1948, 1968 and 1989). Education
- Ph.D. History, University of Washington, Seattle, 2013
Dissertation title: “Slovakia’s Second City in Times of Turbulence: Košice and its Hungarians, Eastern Rite Catholics and Steelworkers in 1948, 1968, and 1989”
Dissertation research conducted in Košice, Slovakia with
funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in conjunction with the Fulbright Program (formerly Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship)
- M.A. History, University of Richmond, Virginia, 2005
- B.S., University of Central Florida, Orlando, 1999, Magna Cum Laude
Publications
- “Forgotten Velvet: Understanding Eastern Slovakia’s 1989,”New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and East European Politics and International Relations, vol. 27, no. 3, (Winter 2019). https://doi.org/10.1177/2336825X1902700304
- “Prague Spring on the Periphery: Eastern Slovak Steelworkers React to Reform and Invasion in 1968,” Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal, vol. 1, no. 2 (Winter 2018).
- “Commemorating Communism? The Controversial Connotations Associated with the Central Square in Slovakia’s Second City” Bardkontakt 2018 Conference Publication, Bardejov, Slovakia, 2018.
- “Kicked Out: Czechoslovakia’s Postwar Policy toward Ethnic Minorities and Its Unintended Outcomes,” Slovakia 43, no. 80-81 (2017).
- “A Remarkable Reversal: Communist Czechoslovakia’s Reinstatement of Eastern Rite Catholicism during the Prague Spring.” Journal of Church and State 2015: doi:10.1093/jcs.csu128
- “Why Did Czechoslovakia Voluntarily Elect a Communist-led Government after the Second World War?” Slovo vol. 15 no. 2 (Winter 2014-2015)
Memberships
–Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
–Czechoslovak Studies Association
–Slovak Studies Association: Member at Large, 2015-present
—Kolégium Antona Neuwirtha (Collegium of Anton Neuwirth), 2004-present, Bratislava, Slovakia–Slovak academic fraternity of university students and young professionals
–John Jay Institute, Research Associate
