Szilvia Roper is pursuing a regional focus in Europe through the MA in Global History program. As a dual citizen of the United States and Hungary and having lived in four Central European cities, the region is close to her heart. After graduating from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill with a BA in Political Science and Contemporary European Studies in May 2018, she taught English as a Second Language to elementary and high school students in Kisujszallas, Hungary. She speaks English, Hungarian, and German and hopes to learn many more languages, with Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian next on her list due to two research/study trips to the Western Balkans. Her main areas of research are a) the experiences of Afro-Europeans, particularly in Germany and Austria, and b) historical memory in Hungary, particularly of the interwar period and the Second World War, and in Austria, particularly of the Nazi T4 Action.