In August, I finally graduated with my doctorate. All of my creative energies had been directed toward writing a dissertation which is why this languished.

Additionally, I began moved to South Carolina to start teaching as an Assistant Professor of History. While not quite as intense as writing, building classes is similarly demanding.

What this means is that over the next several months I will start posting again, but likely only once or twice a month as I work this into the new rhythm. My plan is to pull some of the stories I found while writing my dissertation and share them here.

In the meantime, an essay I wrote about mental health in late-Socialist Hungary published in a new book from Northern Illinois University Press: Freedom of Conscience in (Post) Soviet Space: Legacies of Michael Bourdeaux and the Keston Archive edited by Julie K. deGraffenried, Michael Long, and Xenia Dennen. It is available from the press. My contribution is Chapter 9, The Unhappiest Barrack in the Socialist Bloc: Suicide, Well-Being, and Church-State Relations in Socialist Hungary.