Ivan T. Berend
Ivan T. Berend
Position:
Chairman Emeritus

Professor Berend teaches modern European economic history and complex history of Central and Eastern Europe at UCLA.

Professor Berend teaches modern European economic history and complex history of Central and Eastern Europe at UCLA.

He has published extensively: his first book appeared in 1955 and until now he has published more than twenty books, with more than a hundred scholarly papers, essays, and popular articles on modern European economic history and the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20 century. The conceptional framework that Berend elaborated includes the decisive effect of longue durée historical processes, and the interrelationships between social, economic, political, and cultural trends

Professor Berend was educated at the University of Economics and the Faculty of Philosophy at Eötvös Lóránd University in Hungary, where he recieved his B.A 1953. Doctor degree in Economics in 1957, and PhD in history in 1958.