Biography


Katalin Kádár Lynn is a historian specializing in research related to United States, Central and East European relations during World War II and the Cold War.

Educated at the University of Colorado at Denver, where she earned her undergraduate degree with a dual major in English Literature and in History, she later earned her graduate degree in the Master of Liberal Arts program at Washington University in St. Louis, focusing on immigration history in her master's thesis. Her interest in the wartime and post-war history of central and East European history prompted her to enroll in the doctoral program at Eötvös Loránd University, also known as the University of Budapest, the most prestigious institution of higher learning in Hungary, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2005 cum laude.

Dr. Kádár Lynn is the author of Tibor Eckhardt: His American Years 1941-1972, which has been published both in the United States and Hungary and also edited a book of Dr. Eckhardt's posthumously published memoirs, (Tibor Eckhardt in His Own Words) published in the United States and in Hungary. She also recently compiled and edited a collection of the works of the internationally celebrated photographer Margaret Bourke-White taken in Hungary in 1938 and unpublished until now. The text for the book was jointly written by Kádár Lynn and Dr. Karoly Szerencsés, the distinguished Hungarian historian and Professor of History at ELTE, Magyarország 1938: egy amerikai szemével, Margaret Bourke-White fotói. The English edition of the Bourke White book will be published in the United States in 2010 by East European Monographs and will include a history of Hungary written by Dr. Kádár Lynn and Dr. Peter Strausz. Dr. Kádár Lynn's upcoming book entitled The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare: Cold War Organizations and the National Committee for a Free Europe, will also be released by East European Monographs in 2011. She also editied a prior book written by Dr. Eckhardt published in 1964, entitled Regicide at Marseilles, which has been translated into Hungarian by Dr. Strausz and published in Hungary in 2009 by L'Harmattan.

Dr. Kádár Lynn's research has appeared regularly in scholarly journals and she has presented her research papers at scholarly conferences including those of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the American Hungarian Educators Association, and the National Coalition of Independent Scholars.

Dr. Kádár Lynn serves as a Trustee of the American Hungarian Library and Historical Society of New York City, as an officer of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars, where she is board treasurer and has also served as Vice-President. She also serves as a board member and officer of the Mzuri Wildlife Foundation, and served as Reciprocal Clubs committee chair at the Metropolitan Club of San Francisco. Her other interests include the arts, where she has served variously on the boards of the San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary where she chaired the opening night gala and co-chaired the 75th Anniversary New Works Festival Dinner, the Denver Symphony Association, where she served as a Trustee and chaired the Marketing Committee, the Denver, Colorado Mayor's Commission on the Arts, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis Trustees and the board of the Friends of the St. Louis, Missouri Art Museum. She also served on the Women's Board of the National Jewish Hospital at Denver.

In 2007 Dr. Kádár Lynn and her husband established a foundation based in Hungary, Modern Minerva Alapitvány, supporting graduate students in their efforts to publish and publicize their research and writing.

Prior to her return to graduate school, Dr. Kádár Lynn had an extensive successful management career in retail marketing and retail marketing education. She returned to her first area of scholarship and interest, 20th century history, in the mid-1990's when she enrolled to complete her graduate degree at Washington University in St. Louis.

Born in Budapest, she emigrated with her family first to Germany and then to the United States where she became a naturalized American citizen. Currently, Dr. Kádár Lynn and her husband, Douglas Lynn, a retired real estate developer, divide their time between their homes in Saint Helena, California and Budapest, Hungary.



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Independent scholar focusing on historical research related to United States — Central & East European relations during WWII and the Cold War.

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Katalin Kádár Lynn is widely recognized for having written the official biography of the Hungarian political figure Dr. Tibor Eckhardt's American years and for her success in uncovering archival material, both about his American years and his years spent in his Hungarian homeland that had not been previously published. She also served as the editor of Dr. Eckhardt's posthumously published "Memoirs" as well as the editor of his book, Recollections of Tibor Eckhardt: Regicide at Marseilles, published in Hungarian in 2009.

Her work focuses on the larger themes of Central and East European émigré political movements in the United States and the west after WWII and United States government sponsored émigré organizations and cold war organizations. She has also written on the domestic political consequences of the return of the Crown of St. Stephen by the United States government to the communist government of Hungary; on George Creel's Hungarian connections, Creel was famously known as the greatest propagandist of the 20th century having been appointed by President Wilson during WWI to head the Committee on Public Information. Her recent discovery of a trove of unpublished photographs from Margaret Bourke-White's 1938 trip to Hungary resulted in a book recently published in Hungary of those images, riveting photos of the full pantheon of the Hungarian political leadership in the critical pre-wear year of 1938.

Her upcoming book on the National Committee for a Free Europe and the various Cold War organizations sponsored by that body is eagerly awaited by scholars. She is also researching and writing about some of the more colorful characters that were involved in the movement for Hungarian revision during the interwar period, Lord Rothermere and Stephania von Hohenlohe. Kádár Lynn is a member of various scholarly organizations and regularly presents papers at their conferences.

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PO Box 838
Saint Helena, CA
USA
94574




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kati@katalinkadarlynn.com