Mgr. Péter Szabó, Ph.D. M.A.

Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

• Mgr. Péter Szabó, M.A., Ph.D., born 2 May 1972 in Fehérgyarmat, Hungary

Department

• Department of Environmental Studies
  Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies
  Joštova 10, 60200 Brno
  Czech Republic

Employment - Position

• Assistant professor

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2003: Ph.D. in Medieval Studies; Central European University, Budapest; thesis: "Woodland and Forests in medieval Hungary"
• 1998: M.A. in Medieval Studies; Central European University, Budapest; thesis: "Pilis: A Hungarian Forest in the Middle Ages"
• 1997: Mgr. in History, Mgr. in English; Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

Employment

• 2022-: Assistant professor, Department of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Masaryk University, Brno
• 2008-: Senior researcher (Deputy head of department since 2013), Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of Vegetation Ecology, Brno
• 2005-2007: Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Archaeology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
• 2001-2004: Assistant, Visual Information Center, Central European University, Budapest

Teaching Activities

• At Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest: The historical ecology of medieval Europe; Royal Forests in the Middle Ages; Medieval woodland: history, archaeology, ecology; The environmental history of the Early Modern Period; Introduction to the environmental history of the Carpathian Basin; Landscape archaeology; Medieval forests - medieval hunting
• At Central European University, Budapest: People and nature in the Middle Ages; Historical ecology of woods and Forests
• At Masaryk University: Environmental History, Historical Ecology, Excursion to a mediterranean landscape in Central Europe: nature and society in southern Hungary

Scientific and Research Activities

• Environmental history and historical ecology
• 2026-2028: principal investigator of the project: "Forest of the Anthropocene: the role of Pinus sylvestris in the formation of modern states, societies and environments in the 18th and 19th centuries" (PINUS). Co-funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic and the National Science Centre (Poland)
• 2025-2027: principal investigator of the project: "Constant crisis: an environmental history of Czech forestry in the long 19th century." Funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
• 2019-2021: co-investigator of the project: "The role of charcoal hearths in terms of cultural heritage and protection of landscape." Funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
• 2018–2020: co-investigator of the project: "Agroforestry – potential for regional development and sustainable rural landscape." Funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
• 2015–2017: co-investigator of the project: "Windstorms in the Czech Lands during the past 500 years." Funded by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
• 2012–2016: principal investigator of the project: "Long-term woodland dynamics in Central Europe: from estimations to a realistic model (LONGWOOD)." Funded by the European Research Council (ERC)

Fellowships

• 2019: six-month writing fellowship, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
• 2005: two-month fellowship from the Hungarian American Enterprise Scholarship Fund, Badlands and Yellowstone National Parks, USA.

Academic Services

• 2024-: member of Editorial Board of the Series Holocene Histories: Humans, Plants, Animals by Leiden University Press
• 2023-: member of the Scientific Committee of the European Agroforestry Federation (EURAF)
• 2018–2022: member of the Steering Committee for the Historical Vegetation Ecology Working Group of the International Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS)
• 2019-: member of the Editorial Board of the journal Environment and History
• 2018–2019: member of Editorial Advisory Committee of the journal Environment and History
• 2017–2019: President of the European Society for Environmental History
• 2015–2017: Vice-president of the European Society for Environmental History
• 2015–2024: Deputy coordinator for IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) division 9.03.03 Historical Ecology
• 2007–: member of the Editorial Board of the journal Global Environment, A Journal of transdisciplinary history
• 2004–2007: member of the Nominating Committee of the European Society for Environmental History

Awards Related to Science and Research

• 2016: Zólyominé Barna Piroska Prize from the Biological Section of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• 2003: Outstanding Doctoral Candidate, Central European University, Budapest

Major Publications

• SZABÓ, Péter; Premysl BOBEK; Lydie DUDOVÁ a Radim HÉDL. From oxen to tourists : The management history of subalpine grasslands in the Sudeten mountains and its significance for nature conservation. Anthropocene Review. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 2025, roč. 12, č. 1, s. 18-34. ISSN 2053-0196. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196241266227. URL info
• SZABÓ, Péter. The Horka Litter Raking Incident : On Foresters and Peasants in Nineteenth-Century Moravia. Environment and History. Isle of Harris: White Horse Press, 2023, roč. 29, č. 3, s. 323-343. ISSN 0967-3407. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.3197/096734021X16245313029958address=. article - open access info
• SZABÓ, Péter; Silvie SUCHÁNKOVÁ; Lucie KŘÍŽOVÁ; Martin KOTAČKA; Martina KVARDOVÁ; Martin MACEK; Jana MÜLLEROVÁ a Rudolf BRÁZDIL. More than trees: The challenges of creating a geodatabase to capture the complexity of forest history. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History 2018. Routledge Journals, Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2018, roč. 51, č. 3, s. 175-189. ISSN 0161-5440. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2018.1444523. URL info
• SZABÓ, Péter; Jana MÜLLEROVÁ; Silvie SUCHÁNKOVÁ a Martin KOTAČKA. Intensive woodland management in the Middle Ages: spatial modelling based on archival data. Journal of Historical Geography. 2015, č. 48, s. 1–10. ISSN 0305-7488. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2015.01.005. URL info
• SZABÓ, Péter. Historical ecology: past, present and future. BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS. HOBOKEN: WILEY, 2015, roč. 90, č. 4, s. 997-1014. ISSN 1464-7931. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12141. info
• SZABÓ, Péter a Radim HEDL. Advancing the Integration of History and Ecology for Conservation. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY. HOBOKEN: WILEY, 2011, roč. 25, č. 4, s. 680-687. ISSN 0888-8892. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01710.x. info
• SZABÓ, Péter. Ancient woodland boundaries in Europe. JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY. LONDON: ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2010, roč. 36, č. 2, s. 205-214. ISSN 0305-7488. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2009.10.005. info
• SZABÓ, Péter. Driving forces of stability and change in woodland structure: A case-study from the Czech lowlands. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER, 2010, roč. 259, č. 3, s. 650-656. ISSN 0378-1127. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2009.11.026. info

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