Nation-Building and Contested Identities: Romanian & Hungarian ...

NOTES ON AUTHORSRÃZVAN PÂRÂIANU (b. 1965, Bucharest, Romania) is currently a Ph.D.candidate in comparative history at the Central European University,Budapest. M.A. in Engineering (1990) from the Polytechnic University,Bucharest, M.A. in History (1997) from the University ofBucharest. M.A. in History (1998) from the Central European University.Visiting student at the University of Oxford, Oriel College(2001-2002). His main field of interest is fin-de-siècle Transylvanianculture, politics and society. He is also working on the history ofEastern European anti-Semitism, and the methodology of historiography.He has published articles on the intellectual sources of Romaniannationalism, historical teaching, and the reform of the curriculain post-communist Romania.CRISTINA PETRESCU (b. 1964, Bucharest, Romania) is a Ph. D. candidatein comparative history at the Central European University,Budapest. M.A. in Engineering (1987) from the Polytechnic University,Bucharest, M.A. in History (1997) from the University ofBucharest. M.A. in History (1998) from the Central European University.Visiting student at the University of Maryland (2000). Cotranslatorof Vladimir Tismãneanu, ed., The Revolutions of 1989(London, 1999), for which she received The Civil Society Foundation’sAward for the best translation into Romanian of a book inpolitical science. Her scholarly interests focus on the recent historyof East-Central Europe, especially on issues of nationalism, anticommunistopposition and post-1989 democratization. Her studieson Romanian communism range from questions of nationalism andcultural politics to critical intellectuals and dissent.DRAGOº PETRESCU (b. 1963, Piteºti, Romania) is a Ph. D. candidate incomparative history at the Central European University, Budapest,and deputy editor-in-chief of the political science journal SferaPoliticii (Bucharest). M.A. in Engineering (1987) from the PolytechnicUniversity, Bucharest, M.A. in History (1997) from the Universityof Bucharest. M.A. in History (1998) from the Central EuropeanUniversity. Visiting student at the University of Maryland (2000).Co-translator of Vladimir Tismãneanu, ed., The Revolutions of 1989(London, 1999), for which he received The Civil Society Foundation’sAward for the best translation into Romanian of a book inpolitical science. His research interests are related to the radical ideologiesof the 20 th century, nation-building and collective identityformation in East-Central Europe. He has published widely on the376