Victoria Mocsary received her B.A. and M.A. in history from Southeastern Louisiana University in Dec. of 1987 and May of 1990, respectively. She has been an Instructor of History at SLU since January of 1993. Ms. Mocsary teaches Louisiana History and survey classes in American History and Western Civilization. In addition to classroom instruction, she also works as the Photo Lab Specialist for the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies at Southeastern. Her work at the Center involves copying and printing photographs for historic preservation. Ms. Mocsary is currently working on her Ph.D. in American History at the University of Southern Mississippi. One of her primary fields of interest include the study of the history and folkways of a local ethnic Hungarian community in Albany, Louisiana.
Ms. Mocsary has done considerable work in the field of oral history. A large portion of her research of the Hungarians of Albany, Louisiana includes personal interviews with local residents. During the summer of 1998, Ms. Mocsary studied some of the folklife in the Florida Parishes, whereby she interviewed about fifty residents as a project for the Livingston Parish Cultural Association.
Ms. Mocsary is a member of the
National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Southeast Louisiana Historical Association
Arpadhon Hungarian Settlment Cultural Association
Hungarian Settlement Historical Society
American Hungarian Educators Association
American Association for the Study of Hungarian History
Publications:
"Strangers in a Foreign Land: An Early History of Hungarian Settlement, Livingston Parish, Louisiana." Southeast Louisiana Historical Association Papers, 1987-88, vol. 12.
Arpadhon: The Largest Rural Hungarian Settlement in the United States, Folklife in the Florida Parishes Series, vol. IV, Center for Regional Studies and Archives, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, La., 1990.
"Arpadhon: Hungarian Immigration and Settlement," in The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History, vol. X, A Refuge For All Ages: Immigration in Louisiana History, Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana: Lafayette, 1996, pp. 644-651.