Country of residence

Belgium

Brief introduction

PhD candidate, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Education

MA in History, European south-east studies, 2002, State University of Moldova (Moldova), Interdisciplinary Master in social sciences, history-political sciences, 2005, University of Bucharest (Romania)

Academic profile

Academic interests: Social-juridical status of Roma people in Tsarist Empire in 19th century; Roma community in 19th century in Principality of Moldavia and Walachia; policy of ‘Roma villages’; deportation and daily life of Roma people in Transnistria during WWII; Roma people in URSS; representation of Roma people in visual arts; present situation of Roma in Europe; oral history in Roma communities. Research expertise: fieldwork in Roma communities in Republic of Moldova (interviews within various Roma communities and part-time work in Roma NGO projects); reading and understanding of Slavonic language from 19th century and earlier; Archives research in Republic of Moldova, Bucharest (Romania), Odessa (Ukraine), Moscow (Russia)

Publications

•  "Le processus de changement du statut des Roms de Bessarabie au XIXème siècle", Etudes tsiganes (Paris), nr. 29, 2007, pp. 104-110
• Roma community in Bessarabia under the government of Ion Antonescu (in French), Vol. II, Pontes, Review of South East European Studies, 2005
• The Roma of Bessarabia (1812-1918) (in Romanian), The Roma in Romanian History, Roma Centre for Public Politics Aven Amentza, Bucharest, 2003, p. 94-104

Keywords

Bessarabian Roma, “Roma villages” in Tsarist period and USSR, deportation, Roma witness

Contact

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