Nation-Building and Contested Identities - MEK

NOTES ON AUTHORSNÁNDOR BÁRDI (b. 1962, Laskod, Hungary) currently works asa researcher at the Teleki László Institute, Budapest. M.A. in Historyand Eastern European Studies (1986) from the József Attila University,Szeged. His main field of interest is the relationship betweennation-building and society-building in the history of the Hungarianminorities. His research focuses on the concept of ”society” and theshifts of its meaning among the minority elites. Co-editor of the mapcollection: Köztes-Európa 1763-1993. Publishes regularly on theinterwar history of the Hungarian minority in Romania. Editor ofthe review Regio, the Occasional Papers series of the Teleki LászlóFoundation and the book series Múltunk, published in Romania.Since 1997, head of the research project “Old and new organizationsof minorities” at the Teleki László Institute.IRINA CULIC (b. 1969, Cluj, Romania) is lecturer in the Department ofSociology at the Babeº-Bolyai University, Cluj. M.A. in Mathematics(1992) and in Sociology (1995) from the Babeº-Bolyai University,M.A. in Political Science (1996) from the Central European University.Ph.D. in Sociology (2001) from the Babeº-Bolyai University.Visiting assistant professor at the Political Science Department ofCentral European University (2000-2001). She is interested in thestudy of cultural and political elites, political institutions, interethnicrelations, social stratification, and methodological questions of sociology.Co-editor of the books: Reflections on Differences: Focus onRomania (Cluj & Antwerp, 1999) and Ethnobarometer (Cluj, 2000).CONSTANTIN IORDACHI (b. 1970, Bucharest, Romania) is currently a Ph.D.candidate in comparative history at the Central European University,Budapest. He graduated from the University of Bucharest(M.A.), and the Institute of International Studies, University ofLeeds (M.A.). Visiting student at the University of Pittsburgh, anda Junior Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C.Civic Education Project Fellow at the Babeº-Bolyai University, Cluj(2001-2002), and visiting lecturer at the Eötvös Loránd University,Budapest. He is specializing in comparative institutional and socialhistory of East-Central Europe, and is mainly interested in issues ofcitizenship. Published extensively on issues of historiography andnation-building. Author of Citizenship, Nation and State-Building:The Integration of Northern Dobrogea into Romania, 1878-1913 (CarlBeck Papers. Pittsburgh, 2001).374