Graduate Students :: Graduates
Matthew W. Caples
Email: macaples@indiana.edu
Advisor: Toivo Raun, Mihály Szegedy-Maszák
Education History
BA (1992), History/Russian & Slavic Studies, McGill University, Montreal, QC
MA (May, 2005), Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University
Honors/Awards
2012: Title VIII Fellowship to study Tatar, SWSEEL 2012
2009: Estophilus Scholarship to conduct research in Tartu, Estonia
2007: IU Graduate Student Exchange Fellowship, Debrecen, Hungary
2005-2007: FLAS to study Finnish
2003-2005: Hungarian Studies Fellowship
2003: FLAS to study Romanian, SWSEEL 2003
2002-2003: FLAS to study Estonian
2002: György Ránki Award for Excellence in Hungarian Studies
Languages
Hungarian (near native)
Estonian (advanced)
Finnish (intermediate)
Erzya-Mordvin (introductory)
Russian (reading)
Romanian (reading)
French (reading)
German (reading)
Research Interests: modern Hungarian & Central European history with an emphasis on the interwar period, modern Estonian and Finnish history, pan-Finno-Ugric relations, history of Finno-Ugric linguistics, the role of languages in the formation of national identity and in nation-building projects
