Daniela Mârza, Ph.D.

  Education

• 2019 - habilitation in History at School of Advanced Studies of the Romanian Academy
• 2011 - PhD in history, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, with the thesis ”The Schools of the Archdiocese of Blaj at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century” (Magna cum Laude).
• 1999-2000 - MA in Modern Comparative History at the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Babeș - Bolyai University of Cluj.
• 1995-1999 - BA in History, University "Al. I. Cuza" of Iasi, Faculty of History, section "History", specialty "Modern History".

Research interest

Transylvania’s modern history, historical demography, history of education, social history, family history, history of mentalities

Research projects

• Social mobility of elites in the Central European Regions (1861–1926) and transition of imperial experience and structures into nation-states. EXPRO 20-19463X, team member
• Demographic Trends in Transylvania in the First Half of the 20th Century, 2019-2021, Romanian Academy, GAR-UM-2019-II-2.9-11, principal investigator
• Historical Population Database of Transylvania, 2014-2017, EEA&Norway Grants, EEA-JRP-RO-NO-2013-1-0028 , work package co-leader
• Interethnic Marriages: Between an Exercise of Tolerance and a Modern Expression of Indifference (1895-2010), 2011-2014, UEFISCDI Romania, PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0188, team member
• Romanian History Abroad: the Bibliography of the Romanian History in Western Languages (1700-2010), 2011-2014, UEFISCDI Romania, PN-II-TE-2011-3-0172, team member
• Rhythms and Patterns: Family Life in Transylvania from a Quantitative Perspective (1850-1918), 2014-2016, UEFISCDI Romania, PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2208, team member

Teaching practice

Since 2019: PhD coordinator at School of Advanced Studies of the Romanian Academy, Branch of Cluj; also in charge with teaching the course ”Ethics and methodology of the scientific research”

Most important publications

Books

• Daniela Mârza. Învăţământ românesc în Transilvania. Şcolile Arhidiecezei de Alba Iulia şi Făgăraş la sfârşitul secolului al XIX-lea şi începutul secolului al XX-lea. Academia Română/Centrul de Studii Transilvane. Cluj-Napoca, 2011, ISBN 978-973-7784-63-6, 350 p.
• Daniela Mârza, Reviste românești de istorie publicate în limbi de circulație internațională, Academia Română/Centrul de Studii Transilvane, Cluj-Napoca, 2012,  ISBN 978-973-7784-83-4, 280 p.

Editorship

• Luminiţa Dumănescu, Daniela Mârza, Marius Eppel (eds.), Intermarriage throughout History, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014, ISBN-13: 978-1443859509, ISBN-10: 1443859508, 515 p.
• Rudolf Graf, Harald Heppner, Nicolae Bocșan, Daniela Mârza (eds.), Looking towards the Center: Society and History in Europe, Romanian Academy/Center for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj Napoca, 2014, 320 p., ISSN 2067-1016.
• Daniela Mârza, Liana Lăpădatu (eds.), History, Philosophy and Politics (10th-21th Centuries), Romanian Academy/Center for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj-Napoca, 2012, 408 p., ISSN 2067-1016.
• Daniela Mârza, Liana Lăpădatu (eds.), Mirror Histories. The Romanians as Seen by Themselves or by Others Throughout the Centuries, Romanian Academy/Center for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj Napoca, 2011, 454 p., ISSN 2067-1016.

Book chapters

• Daniela Mârza, ”Impactul Marelui Război asupra copiilor din Transilvania: o istorie în cifre”, in Cătălina Mihalache, Nicoleta Roman (eds), Copilării trecute prin război, Editura Universității ”Al. I. Cuza”, Iași, 2020, ISBN: 978-606-714-566-3, p. 26-38
• Bogdan Crăciun, Daniela Mârza, Mihaela Hărăguș, Ioan Bolovan, The Quantitative Dimension of Mixed Marriages in Transylvania in the Interwar Period, in Ioan Bolovan, Luminița Dumănescu (eds.), Intermarriage in Transylvania, 1895-2010, Peter Lang, 2017, p. 73-116.
• Daniela Mârza, Perception versus Reality: Representations of Mixed Marriages in the Collective Imaginary of Modern-Day Transylvania, in Ioan Bolovan, Luminița Dumănescu (eds.), Intermarriage in Transylvania, 1895-2010, Peter Lang, 2017, p. 125-133.
• Daniela Mârza, Chosing the Language to be Spoken in Mixed Marriages: A Bridge or a Border between Communities, in Ioan Bolovan, Luminița Dumănescu (eds.), Intermarriage in Transylvania, 1895-2010, Peter Lang, 2017, p. 161-178.

Articles in impacted journals

• Daniela Mârza, ”An Inquiry into Popular Perceptions of the Centenary and of the Great Union As Expressed in the Social Media”, in Transylvanian Review,  vol. XXIX, no. 1/2020, p. 49-58.
• Daniela Mârza, Patterns in Family Relationships in 19th Century Transylvania (Data from the Daniela Historical Population Database of Transylvania), in Transylvanian Review no. 4/20017, p. 63-70.
• Daniela Mârza, The Ravages of War: Romanian Schools in Transylvania (1914–1919), in Transylvanian Review, vol. XXV, no. 4, 2016, p. 41-47.
• Daniela Mârza, La question de la langue parlée au sein des familles mixtes dans un espace multiethnique – étude  de cas: la Transylvanie, in Transylvanian Review, nr. 4/2015, p. 77-87.
• Daniela Mârza, L´Histoire de la famille dans l'historiographie roumaine – aspects concernant la presence dans lˋenvironnement scientifique international, în Transylvanian Review, Supplement 2/2014 (R. Graf, H. Heppner, N. Bocșan, D. Mârza (eds.), Looking towards the Center: Society and History in Europe, Romanian Academy/Center for Transylvanian Studies, Cluj Napoca, 2014, 320 p., ISSN 2067-1016), p. 311-318.
• Daniela Mârza, Vlad Popovici, Raluca Botoș, Censuses between Population Statistics and Politics. The Romanian Press from Hungary and the Censuses between 1869 and 1910, in Romanian Journal of Population Studies, Vol. X, No. 1, 2016, p. 5-18.
• Daniela Mârza, Revues roumaines d’histoire parues dans des langues de circulation internationale: leur rôle et importance”, in Transylvanian Review, vol. XXII (Winter), 4/2013, p. 141-153.
• Daniela Mârza, Les institutions dans l’historiographie roumaine: Ouvrages parus pendant les deux dernières décennies dans des langues de circulation internationale”, in Transylvanian Review, nr. 3/2012, p. 127-134.
• Daniela Mârza, Liana Lăpădatu, L’image de la Transylvanie dans la presse roumaine transylvaine de l’entre-deux-guerres”, in Transylvanian Review, 2/2011, p. 98-104.