Project Manager

Corneliu Pintilescu is researcher at the George Bariţiu Institute of History in Cluj-Napoca. He has a PhD in History from the Babeş-Bolyai University. His research interests include emergency powers and dictatorial regimes in twentieth century Romania, political opposition and state coercion in the Eastern Bloc, nationalities policies in post-war Romania. Latest publications: „State of Siege and the Holocaust in Romania: An Incursion into the Origins of the Legal Framework for the Operation of the Camps under the Antonescu Regime”, Holocaust — Studii şi cercetări, vol. 13, nr. 1 (2022); „The Reverberations of the October 1917 Revolution and the State of Siege in Interwar Romania” in Gerhard Besier, Katarzyna Stoklosa (eds.), 1917 and the Consequences, Routledge, London, 2020.

Cosmin Sebastian Cercel is currently Assistant Research Professor at the Lazarski University in Warsaw. Prior to moving to Lazarski, he was Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham School of Law and a Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne School of Law (2015). He holds a doctorate in Comparative Law from the Sorbonne School of Law (2012). His main research explores the nexus between law and authoritarian ideologies with a specific focus on continental legal theory and constitutional history. He is currently conducting research within the framework of the PCE project The Rule of Law and Peripheral Constitutionalism (NEC) and of the TE project An Ethnography of the Dual State (Romanian Academy). He is the author of Towards a Jurisprudence of State Communism: Law and the Failure of Revolution (Routledge, 2018) și unul dintre coordonatorii volumului colectiv  States of Exception: Law, History, Theory Recently, he has co-edited (with Gian-Giacomo Fusco and Simon Lavis), States of Exception: Law, History, Theory (Routledge, 2020). Other recent publications include, “Law, Politics, and the Military: Towards a Theory of Authoritarian Adjudication”, German Law Journal (2021) Vol. 22, No. 7, pp. 171-196, “Reversing Liberal Legality: Romania’s Path to Dictatorship, 1930-1938”, Journal of Romanian Studies (2020) Vol. 2, No. 2, 23-52 and “The Law of Blood: Totalitarianism, Criminal Law and the Body Politic of World War Two Romania” in Stephen Skinner (ed.), Ideology and Criminal Law: Fascist, National Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes, Oxford: Hart, 2019, 345-368. Șefii de stat: dinamica autoritară a puterii politice în istoria constituțională românească (Universul Juridic, 2020), 313-427. A contribuit la volumele colective Ce mai rămâne din Mai 68? (coordonat de Alex Cistelecan și Alex Ciorogar) și Epoca Traian Băsescu. România în 2004‑2014 (coordonat de Florin Poenaru și Costi Rogozanu). 

Iuliana Nagy has an MA from The Department of History, Patrimony and Protestant Theology within “Lucian Blaga” University, Sibiu, Romania, with a dissertation entitled Psychiatry and Political Repression in Communist Romania (1965-1989). Her main research interests include the history of religious minorities in Romania, such as Old Calendarist, Tudorist, and Neo-protestant communities, the manner in which they were perceived by the totalitarian regimes and their secret police in the 20th century Romania, as well as the repressive mechanisms used towards these communities. She was a member of the European Research Council Project, Creative Agency and Religious Minorities: Hidden Galleries in the Secret Police Archives in Central and Eastern Europe (Hidden Galleries) (2016-2020) and has a PhD entitled Hidden Galleries, Silenced Communities: Religious Communities and the Secret Police in 20th Century Romania. She is currently a member of the project „An Etnography of the “dual state”: the state of siege and the ascent of authoritarianism in Romania(1933-1944)”.

Petre Matei holds a PhD in History from the University of Bucharest with a thesis on the history of Roma in Romania. He held a DAAD scholarship in 2006 and a Tziporah Wiesel fellowship at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012. He is the author of around thirty articles on Roma history, member in several research projects, project coordinator of The Roma survivors of Deportations to Transnistria project and with Vintilă Mihăilescu he co-edited Condiția romă. Schimbarea discursului. (Iași: Polirom 2014) and Roma. Der Diskurswandel (Viena: new academic press 2020). De asemenea, se află sub tipar volumul Mișcarea romă din România în presa interbelică : 1933-1941 (Cluj: ISPMN&INSHR-EW 2022). His research interests focus on Roma history, the Holocaust, compensation, and memory. Between January-July 2021, he was a research fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies with the project Roma Deportations to Transnistria during theSecond World War. Between Central Decision-Making and Local Initiatives.