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

NOTES ON AUTHORSSORIN ANTOHI (b. 1957, Târgu Ocna, Romania), educated in Iaºi and Paris,is Professor of History at Central European University, where heserved as Academic Pro-Rector (1997-1999). He has also taught at theuniversities of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Bucharest; Bielefeld; Montpellier;he was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the BehavioralSciences, Stanford (1999-2000). His main fields are history ofideas, historical theory, Romanian studies. He has published fivebooks in Romanian (two of them co-written), one in French; threeedited volumes (two co-edited); six co-translated books (into Romanian,from English, French); and many shorter pieces, in several languagesand countries. Most recently, in international languages: Imaginaireculturel et realite politique dans la Roumanie moderne: Le stigmateet l'utopie (Paris-Montreal: L'Harmattan, 1999); Between Past andFuture: The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Aftermath (Budapest: CEUPress, 2000, 2001), co-edited with Vladimir Tismãneanu.BARNA ÁBRAHÁM (b. 1967, Gyõr, Hungary) is a Ph.D. candidate at theEötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and an assistant lecturer at theInstitute of Slavonic and Central European Studies of the PázmányPéter Catholic University, Hungary. M.A. in History (1993) and HungarianLiterature (1998) from the Eötvös Loránd University, M.A. inSlovak Language and Literature (1998) from the Pázmány PéterCatholic University. He is interested in the social history of TransylvanianRomanians in the 19 th century and the process of national ideologyformation in Central and Southeast Europe. His publicationsfocus on Slovakian and Romanian cultural history, and the social historyof the ethnic communities in Hungary before World War I. Coeditorof the volume NÆrod, spoloŁnos, konfesia (Piliscsaba, 2001).MÓNIKA BAÁR (b. 1972, Budapest, Hungary) is a last year Ph.D. candidatein History at the University of Oxford. M.A. in History and HungarianLiterature (1995) from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest,M.A. in History (1996) from the Central European University,Budapest, and M.A. in Slavonic and East European Studies (1997)from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London. Shehas been a visiting student in Vienna, Vilnius and Warsaw. Her scholarlyinterests focus on comparative romantic historiography, with specialregard to Central and Eastern Europe. She has published articleson Hungarian, Czech, Polish and Lithuanian intellectual history,mainly on national romanticism and positivism in historiography.373