She specializes in modern European history with an emphasis on East-Central Europe. Her main research interests include the history of sexuality, women's and gender history, conservatism and the politics of the far right, the history of human rights, and the history of sport. She is working on her book manuscript Sex in the "Pearl of the Danube:" The History of Queer Life, Love, and its Regulation in Budapest, 1873-1941 that explores the relationship between the evolution of the modern East-Central European state and sexuality. akurimay@brynmawr.edu