Dr. Leslie Waters is a historian of twentieth century Central and Eastern Europe. Her research focuses on moments of historical rupture: how border and regime changes affect societies. She received her PhD from UCLA, and her first book Borders on the Move: Territorial Change and Ethnic Cleansing in the Hungarian-Slovak Borderlands, 1938–1948 was published by Rochester University Press in 2020. Dr. Waters is managing editor of Hungarian Studies Review and President of the Hungarian Studies Association. Her current project, “Barcelona ’92: The New Europe at the Olympic Games,” analyzes the role of the 1992 Summer Olympics in integrating post-communist Eastern Europe into liberal international politics and the global capitalist economy. Her work has been funded by the Fulbright Association, Mellon Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies. Dr. Waters offers courses on European history, borderlands history, human rights, and genocide.

• Faculty Marshall - College of Liberal Arts (12/01/2024-12/31/2024)
• Provost's Faculty Fellow - UTEP Provost's Office (12/01/2024-12/31/2024)
• Honorable Mention, Hungarian Studies Association Book Prize - Hungarian Studies Association (11/01/2021-11/30/2021)

• Ph D in History, University of California, Los Angeles (2012)

• Péter Bencsik, Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. 150 pages. ISBN 9781032280790 Hungarian Studies Review 51 1 (2024), Leslie Waters.
• In Pursuit of Prestige: The International Olympic Committee’s Peace Efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992–1994) International Journal of the History of Sport (2024), Leslie Waters.
• Hungarian Studies Review at 50 Hungarian Studies Review 50 1–2 (2023), Leslie Waters.
• István Deák and Hungarian History: Remembering the Life and Career of a Giant in the Field Hungarian Studies Review 50 1–2 (2023), Leslie Waters.
• Review of Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence 1914-1945 by Raz Segal (2021), Leslie Waters.

• Eastern Europe’s Coming-Out Party: Regime Changes, Economic Transformations, and the 1992 Summer Olympic Games (2024), Volume Boston, MA, Leslie Waters.
• Barcelona '92: The New Europe at the Olympic Games (2024), Leslie Waters.
• Barcelona '92: The New Europe at the Olympic Games (2024), Leslie Waters.
• Borders on the Move Book Talk (2024), Volume Centennial Museum, Leslie Waters.
• The Commodification of the Post-State Socialist Athlete (2023), Volume Philadelphia, PA, Leslie Waters.

• Barcelona '92: The New Europe at the Olympic Games