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

NOTES ON AUTHORSMARIUS TURDA (b. 1973, Baia Mare, Romania) is currently a Ph.D. candidatein comparative history at the Central European University,Budapest. M.A. in History (1997) from the University of Bucharest.M.A. in History (1998) from the Central European University,Budapest. Visiting student at the University of Oxford, Oriel College(2000-2001). His field of interest is the Central European history ofpolitical ideas, focusing mainly on nationalism, social Darwinism,and racism at the turn of the 20 th century. He is the editor of TheGarden and the Workshop: Disseminating Cultural History in East-Central Europe. In Memoriam Péter Hanák (Budapest, 1998), and haspublished several articles on the intellectual history of Romanianfederalism and nationalism.378