Professor Susan Glanz, taught economics at St. John’s University, New York, since 1984. Before that, she taught as an adjunct professor at Baruch College and Montclair State University.
Her research has focused mainly on Hungarian economic history, and Hungary’s relaKons with the European Union. She has also wriMen about effecKve teaching and the use of technology in teaching to engage students. She has published on these topics and delivered more than 20 papers and chaired several panels at academic conferences in the US and abroad.
From the mid-1980s to the mid-2010s Susan was the secretary-treasurer and newsleMer editor of the American AssociaKon for the Study of Hungarian History and its successor, the Hungarian Studies AssociaKon. She was also the treasurer of the Center for Hungarian Studies and PublicaKons, Inc. Between 1998 and 2012 the non-profit firm published the translated works of numerous contemporary Hungarian historians. These books were distributed by Columbia University Press.
Susan was a long standing, disKnguished and acKve member of the American Hungarian Educators AssociaKon (AHEA). She was a great contributor, member of the Program CommiMee, and president of AHEA for two terms (2004-2008). In 2007, Susan was the head of the local organizing commiMee of our 32nd conference Ktled “Hungarians in a Larger World”, held at St. John’s University in ManhaMan, NY. In 2022 she received the Peter Basa Award of the AHEA.
Her friend and colleague, Cathrine Ruggiery, former Dean of St. Vincent's College, St. John's University, NY, writes: „Susan was a wonderful teacher; incredibly paKent, caring, always available to her students. When technology entered teaching, she was one of the first to embrace it, and she brought many colleagues along with her, teaching us as she did her students. Dr. Susan Glanz was one of the smartest people I knew; she wrote many scholarly papers about Economics and History in the US and Hungary. She also wrote about new teaching techniques she created or found in her research to make the subject simpler for students. Susan made us and our school beMer. She was vital to the success of the St. John's College Europa study abroad program in Hungary; sharing her love of Hungary with all who worked on this program. Susan loved and was tremendously proud of her husband and son. She will be remembered and greatly missed by her colleagues.”
Alice Freifeld, professor at University of Florida, Gainesville, writes: „The first Kme I aMended the annual business meeKng of the American AssociaKon for the Study of Hungarian History, Susan was sihng up front as secretary. Béla Király greeted me, but Susan in her modest, sincere, and maMer-of-fact way inaugurated me into the community of Hungarian studies. Her kindness and generosity were immeasurably important to me as I moved to become a historian of Hungary. Later, when my own students came to the convenKon, Susan welcomed them also with the same genuine interest and kindness. She was there for them–even though her efforts wouldn’t be added to any acKvity report, etc. I looked forward to the convenKons in large part because I would see Susan and her words would help ground me for the coming term or next hurtle in life.”
KV 8/29/22