Our commissioning editor Lea Greenberg recently sat down to talk with Frances Pinter, outgoing Director of Academic Relations and founder of CEU Press. At the end of 2025, Pinter completed her tenure with CEU Press to focus on her work with Ukraine. Their conversation reflects on Pinter’s decades of experience in academic publishing (there’s even a cameo from the father of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani) and what she hopes to see moving forward.

New title out now! Early Modern Overseas Careers edited by Igor Iwo Chabrowski and Natalia Królikowska–Jedlińska explores the question of why subjects of Polish kings, Transylvanian princes, or Habsburg emperors dreamed of venturing overseas with the colonial merchants or aspired to work as missionaries in China and Japan.

Lucy Jeffery and Anna Váradi’s edited volume, Replaying Communism: Trauma and Nostalgia in European Cultural Production examines the enduring legacies of the communist era across Central and Eastern Europe, bringing together contributions that explore how these histories are remembered, mediated, and reimagined.

New title out now! Vladan Jovanović’s new book, Opium in the Balkans: Cultivation, Processing, and Trade during the Interwar Period, explores the cultivation, production, and trafficking of Macedonian raw opium in the interwar period.

New title out now! Read Ulinka Rublack’s investigation into outerwear in the Renaissance and how these garments mediated social relations.

Listen to our podcast episode with Emília Barna about her new book with CEU Press, Working in Music on the Semiperiphery: Local Cultural Production and Global Capitalism.

New title out now! Eric Gordy, Alena Ledeneva, and Predrag Cvetičanin’s volume offers a close look at the Balkans and illuminates persistent deficits in state legitimacy and capacity.