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DIEGO CHECA HIDALGO Spanish historian specialized in contemporary political affairs with a focus on the role of civil society in international politics, especially in nonviolent conflict transformation, international conflict management and socio-environmental conflicts. He held teaching and research positions at the University of Granada (Spain) and Coventry University (UK). He authored and edited several scientific publications and training kits on peace education, and he recently completed a project on socio-environmental conflicts and non-violent interventions supported through the Marie Curie Fellowship (European Commission). He is currently affiliated with the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University (UK) and An Najah National University, Nablus (Palestinian Territories). ([email protected])

LUCIAN-ZEEV HERŞCOVICI Historian and specialist librarian (selection of books) at the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, and Hebrew, Yiddish and Jewish history associate lecturer at the Universities of Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest. Shortly after he received his doctoral degree in history from „Paul Valéry” University, Montpellier in 2009, he was awarded the „Eudoxiu Hurmuzaki” Prize of the Romanian Academy. Among his works are Prezenţe rabinice în perimetrul românesc [Rabbinic presence in Romanian area], Hasefer Publishing House, 2008, with Baruch Tercatin; Entziqlopedyah leyahaduth Romanyah, Jerusalem, Mosad Harav Kook, 2012, three volumes, with Baruch Tercatin; Le mouvement de la Haskalah parmi les Juifs de Roumanie (PhD thesis, Université Paul Valéry, 2009, two volumes and a brochure); coordinator, with Yves Chevalier of the second number (10), vol. 5 (2012), of „ESSACHES: Journal for Communication Studies” (Communication et mémoire – Communication de la mémoire); editor, with Danielle Delmaire and Felicia Waldman, of the book Roumanie, Israel, France: parcours juifs; hommage au professeur Carol Iancu, Champion, Paris and Bucharest University Press, Bucharest, 2014 (two volumes). He held the position of Lecturer in Hebrew at the Paul Valéry University, Montpellier (2004-2007). ([email protected])

LEVENTE NAGY Currently Associate professor at Eötvös Lóránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Arts, Romanian Philology Department, Dr. Nagy specialized in Hungarian-Romanian cultural relations, the history of the Romanian Reformation, and the Romanian historical literature in Latin. He has published monographs about the Romanian Reformation, Luigi Ferdinando Marsili and the history of the Romanian Philology Department in Budapest. ([email protected])

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164 LUCIAN NASTASĂ

Romanian historian of culture and education, he currently acts as professor and scientific researcher at the Romanian Academy – “George Bariţiu” Institute of History and “Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca. Beneficiary of research internships at research and/or higher education institutions in Budapest, Geneva, Graz, Zurich, Beijing, Tel Aviv, Moscow, Paris and Heidelberg; recipient of the “Meir Rudich” Award of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2012) and of the Romanian Academy Award (2004); member of the Doctors Corporation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004). Author of numerous publications, including Generation and change in Romanian historiography (1999), Interethnic Relations in Post-Communist Romania (2000, with Levente Salat), The Hungarians from Romania and the minority ethics (2003, with Levente Salat), The intellectuals and the social promotion (2004); The University of Kolozsvár / Cluj and the students of the Medical Faculty (2004, with Victor Karady), Routes to the world scientist (2006), The „sovereigns” of the Romanians universities: Mechanisms of selection and promotion of the intellectual elite (2007), Armenians from North-West Transylvania during the years of communism (2008), The intimacy of amphitheatres: Snapshots from the private life of the „literary” university scholars (2010), Universitarian Anti-Semitism in Romania (2011), Rom or Gypsy: Dilemmas of an ethnonym within the Romanian space (2012, with István Horváth), Cultural policies and intellectual models in Romania (2013, with Dragoş Sdrobiş), and the coordinator of the series Ethnocultural Minorities: Documentary Testimonies (4 vol. between 2001 and 2003). ([email protected])

BOB REINALDA Dutch political scientist, with studies of political science and social history, currently acting as Senior Researcher at Radboud University, Nijmegen and as member of the executive board of Research Committee 33 (The Study of Political Science as a Discipline) of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). He has published a book about the Bologna Process (2006, with Ewa Kulesza) and has written articles about the Bologna Process and political science. He has co-edited studies about autonomous policy making by, decision making within, and implementation by international organizations (with Bertjan Verbeek and Jutta Joachim). He has published the Routledge History of International Organizations: From 1815 to the Present Day (2009) and has edited the Ashgate Research Companion to Non-State Actors (2011) and the Routledge Handbook of International Organization (2013). Together with Kent Kille, The College of Wooster, he is an editor of IO BIO, the Biographical Dictionary of SecretariesGeneral of International Organizations ([email protected]).

NORBERT SABIC Doctoral Candidate at the Doctoral School of Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy, Central European University (CEU, Hungary). He is also affiliated to the Center of Education Policy (Serbia), where he conducts research in the area of higher education. His research focuses on higher education and innovation policies. Besides, he has extensively explored the topic of academic rankings, representation of minorities in higher education, and R&D performance in the Balkans. ([email protected])

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CORNEL SIGMIREAN Professor at the “Petru Maior” University of Târgu Mureş and director of the “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research, Romanian Academy. His research focuses on the history of the Transylvanian Romanian elite formation and their studies at European universities. Author or coordinator of more than one hundred scientific publications, he received in 2002 the Romanian Academy Award „George Bariţ” for the his work Istoria formării intelectualităţii din Transilvania şi Banat în epoca modernă (The history of building the intellectual stratum of Transylvania and Banat during the modern age, Cluj: Cluj-Napoca University Press, 2000). ([email protected])

ELENA SIUPIUR Senior researcher at the Institute of South East European Studies – Romanian Academy, and recurrent guest professor at the Faculty of History (University of Bucharest). Doctor Honoris Causa of the University “St. Kliment Ohridtzki”, Sofia (Bulgaria, 1999). Corresponding member of Südosteuropa Gesellschaft, Germany (since 2006). Author of numerous studies of modern South East European history published in Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Romania etc., including Relaţii literare româno-bulgare în perioada 1878-1918 (Romanian-Bulgarian literary Connections, Minerva Publishing House, Bucharest, 1980), Emigraţia intelectuală bulgară în România în secolul al XIX-lea (Bălgarska emigrantska inteligentzia v Rumânia prez XIX-ti vek, The Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1982), Intelectuali, elite, clase politice moderne în Sud-Estul Europei (sec. sl XIX-lea) (Modern intellectuals, elites and political classes in South Eastern Europe – 19th century, Dominor Publishing House, Bucharest, 2004), Emigraţia: condiţie umană şi politică în Sud-Estul european (Emigration: Human and political contexts in South Eastern Europe, The Publishing House of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 2009). ([email protected]; [email protected])