POSITION:
Research fellow
RESEARCH AREAS:
child welfare, parliamentarism
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
I am a historian working on the post-imperial transformations in interwar Romania. My past expertise is related to child protection in Dualist Hungary (with special focus on Transylvania). I am interested in the post-imperial transformation on institutional level (welfare institutions) and the life courses analysis of MPs.
PROJECTS
In the Institute for Social Studies I am a team member in the research project investigating the patchwork parliaments in a comparative approach. The focus of my activity is interwar Romania.
Previously, I participated in two research projects at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. In the Change and continuity: the public administration and the civil servants’ corps from Transylvania before and after the First World War (1910-1925) I was involved in collecting and managing historical data. In the project entitled Raising the Nation: Institutional and Grassroots Initiatives for Orphan Welfare in Transylvania during Dualism I studied the evolution of the Hungarian state child welfare system.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
- “Investing in Infants: Child Protection and Nationalism in Transylvania during Dualism and the Interwar Period.” Nationalities Papers 52 (2024), No. 3, 536−553.
- “The abandoned children of the Banat in the early twentieth century.” Banatica 31, no. 2 (2021), 409−27.
- “Raised by Strangers: A Childhood in State Care in Dualist Transylvania.” Romanian Journal of Population Studies 15, no. 1 (2021 January−June), 9−26.
- “Impoverished by the Cholera: Widows, Widowers, and Orphans after the 1873 Cholera Epidemic in Kolozsvár.” Hungarian Historical Review 9, no. 4 (2020) 667−692.
Contributions in edited volumes:
- “The Denationalized Children of Transylvania: The State Children’s Asylum in Cluj after 1918.” In Postwar Continuity and New Challenges in Central Europe, 1918–1923: The War that Never Ended. Edited by Tomasz Pudłocki and Kamil Ruszała. Routledge, 2022, New York and London. 329−346.
EDUCATION
- 2024 June, PhD in history at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, History – Civilization – Culture Doctoral School. Dissertation title: The Children of the State: The History of the Hungarian State Children’s Asylums, 1901−1918. Committee: Judit Pál (supervisor), Zoltán Tibori Szabó (internal examiner), Ágoston Berecz (external examiner), Gábor Gyáni (external examiner), Enikő Rüsz-Fogarasi (chair)
- 2017 July, MA in history (Cultural Heritage Conservation) at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 2017–2019: research assistant in the project Change and continuity: the public administration and the civil servants’ corps from Transylvania before and after the First World War (1910-1925). Principal Investigator dr. Judit Pál
- 2020–2022: research assistant in the project Raising the Nation: Institutional and Grassroots Initiatives for Orphan Welfare in Transylvania during Dualism. Principal Investigator dr. Ovidiu Emil Iudean.