Bogdan CHIRIAC

Country of residence

Romania

PhD candidate, Department of History, Central European University,

Master of Arts’ Degree (MA) in Nationalism Studies, 2008 Central European University (Budapest)

General interests: the history of Romania in the 20^th century (from parliamentary democracy to national Communism and beyond); the Romanian state and its ethnic and religious minorities since 1918: politics of cohabitation, assimilation, deportation and integration (emphasis on the Roma minority);
Particular interests: the trials of major war criminals in postwar Romania (1945- 1947); the cultural identity and political discourses about the Roma in Romania since 1918

The ‘Retrial of Marshal Antonescu in Romanian Post-Communist Historiography- thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the MA requirements to the Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University in June 2008
‘The trial of Marshal Ion Antonescu and the representation of the Holocaust in the courtroom’- paper presented at the international student conference ’Witnessing Responses: A New Generation’s Perspectives on the Holocaust’ in Budapest (September 2009)
A contested identity: scholarly debates surrounding the ethnic origin of the Rudari (Bayash) population in Romania’- paper presented at the seminar ‘On being Roma in Central and Eastern Europe’ at Central European University, Budapest (May 2012)

Romanian history; Historiography; Romani studie