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VÁRDY, STEVEN BÉLA, Ph.D., is McAnulty Distinguished Professor of European History at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the long-time Director of Duquesne University History Forum, and former Chairman of the Department of History. He is an invited member of the International P.E.N.(1985), President of the Institute of German American Relations (1995), and a Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004, 2010). He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of nearly two dozen books and over six-hundred articles, essays, and reviews. His most recent books include (1) Historical Dictionary of Hungary (1997), (2) Hungarians in the New World [Magyarok az Újvilágban] (2000), (3) Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe (2003), (4) Struggles in the New World [Újvilági küzdelmek] (2005), (5) Stalin’s Gulag: The Hungarian Experience (2007), (6) Hungarians in the Slave Labor Camps of the Gulag [Magyarok a Gulág rabszolgatáboraiban]  (2007), (7) German Contributions to Western Civilization (2009), and (8) Hungarian Americans in the Current of History (2010) -- the last six co-authored or co-edited with Ágnes Huszár Várdy. In addition to a dozen major research grants, Professor Várdy is the recipient of Duquesne University’s “Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship” (1984), Hungary’s “Berzsenyi-Prize” (1992), the Árpád Academy’s “Gold Medal” (1997), the “Oficer’s Cross” awarded by the President of the Republic of Hungary (2001), the “Pro Libertate Award” of the Rákóczi Foundation (2005), the Gold Medal of the Hungarian Revolutionary Committee (2006), Honorary Doctorates from King Louis the Great University (2007), and the University of Miskolc (2010) in Hungary. In 2000 Professor Várdy’s former students and colleagues on two continents honored him with a Festschrift [Commemorative Volume]. This was repeated in 2012, when mostly other students and colleagues honored him and his wife (his scholarly collaborator) with an even more impressive Festschrift. Entitled Hungary Through the Centuries: Studies in Honor of Professors Steven Béla Várdy and Agnes Huszár Várdy, this book was edited by Professor Richard P. Mulcahy of the University of Pittsburgh, with the collaboration of Drs. János Angi and Tibor Glant of the University of Debrecen in Hungary. This book was introduced by one of Professor S. B. Várdy’s most distinguished former students, Air Force General Michael Hayden, the former head of the National Security Agency and the CIA. Already a Plenary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2004, in 2010 Professor Várdy was elected a regular External Member of the same Academy. In addition to the above, Professor Várdy is an active member of several scholarly and cultural organizations. At the moment Professor Várdy is involved in two major research projects dealing with the Soviet Gulag slave labor camps, and with the post-World War II political emigration from Hungary to the United States. When writing in Hungarian, Professor Vardy writes under the name of “Várdy Béla.”