Lect. dr. Vlad Vasile Popovici

Education

• 2005–2008 – PhD in History, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca
• 2004–2005 – MA in Historical Social-Anthropology, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca
• 2000–2004 – BA in History (Valedictorian), Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca

Research interest

history of Transylvania; history of elites and mid-upper classes; digital history and historical databases

Research projects as Principal Investigator or Team/Workpackage Leader (since 2010)

• Social mobility of elites in the Central European Regions (1861–1926) and transition of imperial experience and structures into nation-states. EXPRO 20-19463X, co-investigator, 2020–2024
• Romanian Officers in the Habsburg Army and their involvement in Civil Society (end of 18th century to 1918), UEFISCDI Romania PN-III-P1.1.-TE-2016-0432, principal investigator, 2018–2020
• Collective actors in Modern Age Transylvania (1850–1918). Romanian elite groups in historical perspective, UEFISCDI Romania, PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-0263, principal investigator, 2015–2017
• Historical Population Database for Transylvania 1850–1914, EEA Grants, workpackage leader (Work package 1: Sources), 2014–2017
• REGEDIT – Resursă Electronică pentru Gestionarea şi Evidenţa surselor de Demografie Istorică a Transilvaniei [Electronic Resource for Management and Evidence of Historical Demography Sources from Transylvania], Babeș-Bolyai University Grant for Young Researchers, principal investigator, 2013–2014
• Elita politică românească din Ungaria dualistă (1867–1918). De la recuperările prosopografice la sociologia elitelor [The Romanian Political Elite in Hungary (1867–1918). From Prosopography to the Sociology of Elites], CNCS PD-425/2010, principal investigator, 2010–2012

Teaching practice

• Since 2015: Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca (tenured since 2019)

Membership in Editorial Boards and Scholarly Societies

• Since 2016: membership in SRS - Society for Romanian Studies
• Since 2016: membership in ICHRPI – International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions
• Since 2020: membership in Military Welfare History Network
• Since 2020: Editorial board member of Acta Musei Porolissensis, Yearbook of the Sălaj County Museum, Zalău, Romania.

Publications

Publication list at MIA CAS in ASEP: here

Most important publications

Books

• Popovici, Vlad. Studies on the Romanian Political Elite from Transylvania and Hungary (1861–1918). Cluj-Napoca: Mega, 2012, 150 p., ISBN 978-606-543-251-2.
• Popovici, Vlad. Tribunismul (1884–1905). Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2008, 434 p., ISBN 978-973-610-805-1.

Book chapters

• Hegedűs, Nicoleta – Horváth, Csaba – Popovici, Vlad. Officers of Romanian Descent in the Royal Hungarian Honvéd Army. Family Histories, Career Paths and Life Choices. Social and Administrative Elite in the Romanian Space (15th–19th Centuries). Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre, 2021 – (Atanasiu, M.B.; Ploscaru, C.), p. 155–175. ISBN 978-3-86628-692-4
• Pál, Judit – Popovici, Vlad. The Transformation of the Mid-level Civil Servants’ Corps in Transylvania in the Aftermath of the First World War: The High Sheriffs between 1918 and 1925. Hofratsdämmerung? Verwaltung und ihr Personal in den Nachfolgestaaten der Habsburgermonarchie 1918 bis 1920. Wien: Böhlau, 2020 – (Becker, P.; Garstenauer, T.; Helfert, V.; Megner, K.; Steiner, G.; Stockinger, T.), p. 155–178. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 75. ISBN 978-3-205-21152-5.
• Popovici, Vlad. Does History Remember Civil Servants? A Case Study on the Regime Change of 1918-1920 in Transylvania. Elites, Networks of Power and Citizens (19th-21st centuries). Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2019 – (Rogojanu, D.C.; Dogaru, C.Șt.), p. 121–140. ISBN 978-606-37-0662-2.
• Popovici, Vlad – Lutz, Diana. Faire son entrée dans le milieu virtuel : numérisation de la mémoire de la Grande Guerre et de la Grande Union de 1918. Information, Communication et Humanités Numériques. Enjeux et défis pour un enrichissement épistémologique. Actes du 23e Colloque Franco-Roumain en sciences de l'information et de la communication. 18, 19 et 20 octobre 2018 Université Babeș-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca. Cluj-Napoca: Accent, 2019 – (Roxin, I; Tajariol, F.; Hosu, I.; Pélisier, N.), p. 81–90. ISBN 978-606-561-203-7, ISSN 2068-5750.
• Popovici, Vlad. Cojocna [The County of Cojocna]. România Mare votează. Alegerile parlamentare din 1919 „la firul ierbii” [Greater Romania goes to the Polls. The Parliamentary Elections of 1919 „at grassroots level”]. Iași: Polirom, 2019 – (Murgescu, B.; Sora, A.F.),  p. 175–186. ISBN 9789734679935.
• Pál, Judit – Popovici, Vlad. A Comparative Perspective on the Study of Hungarian and Romanian Political Elites of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Elitenforschung in der Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Erfahrungen und methodisch-theoretische Inspirationen. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 2019 – (Fasora, L.; Hiebl, E.; Pál, J.; Popelka, P.), p. 85–110. Mitteleuropäische historische Perspektiven/ Central European Historical Perspectives, 2. ISBN 978-3-643-50920-8.
• Pál, Judit – Popovici, Vlad. Die Rolle von Schlüsselfiguren (power brokers) in der sozialökonomischen Zusammenarbeit vor 1918 in Siebenbürgen am Beispiel des Eisenbahnbaus. Kooperatives Imperium. Politische Zusammenarbeit in der späten Habsburgermonarchie. Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht, 2018 – (Osterkamp, J.), p. 205–226. Bad Wiesser Tagung des Collegium Carolinum, 39. ISBN 978-3-525-37069-8.
• Popovici, Vlad. The reorganization of the Romanian National Party in rural areas of Lower Alba County prior to parliamentary elections in 1919. Politics and Peasants in Interwar Romania, Newcastle u. Tayne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 – (Radu, S; Schmidt, J.O.), p. 329–354. ISBN 978-1-4438-9383-1.
• Pál, Judit – Popovici, Vlad. The Parliamentary Elite from Eastern Hungary and Transylvania (1867–1918). A Generation-based Approach. Generationen in der Geschichte des langen 20. Jahrhunderts - metodisch–theoretische Reflexionen. Wien: LIT-Verlag, 2016 – (Fasora, L.; Hiebl, E.; Popelka, P.), p. 55–76. Mitteleuropäische historische Perspektiven/Central European Historical Perspectives 1. ISBN 3-643-50750-1.
• Popovici, Vlad. Sketches from the activity of the Romanian MPs in the Parliament of Hungary during World War I. World War I. The other faces of the War. Cluj-Napoca: Romanian Academy – Centre for Transylvania Studies, Cluj University Press, 2016 – (Bolovan, I.; Gräf, R.; Heppner, H.; Tămaș, O.), p. 81–94. ISBN 978-606-37-0028-6; 978-606-8694-61-0.
• Popovici, Vlad – Iudean, Ovidiu – Onojescu, Alexandru. Parliamentary Representation in Eastern Hungary 1867–1918. Preliminary results of a prosopographic inquiry. Elites and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe 1848–1918. Frankfurt am Main etc.: Peter Lang, 2014 (Pál, J.; Popovici, V.), p. 211–224. ISBN 978-3-631-64939-8; ISBN eBook: 978-3-653-04031-9.

Editorship

• Hegedűs, Nicoleta – Horváth, Csaba – Popovici, Vlad (eds.). Portrete de ofițeri de origine română din Armata de Honvezi (1868–1918) [Portraits of Officers of Romanian Descent in the Royal Hungarian Honvéd Army]. Cluj-Napoca: Mega, 2020, 464 p. ISBN 978-606-020-220-2.
• Pál, Judit – Fehér, Andrea – Iudean, Ovidiu Emil – Popovici, Vlad (eds.), Ferenczi, Szilárd – Hirsch, Sandra – Onojescu, Alexandru (collaborators). Parliamentary Elections in Eastern Hungary and Transylvania 1865–1918, Frankfurt am Main etc.: Peter Lang, 2018, 390 p. ISBN 978-3-631-69731-3.
• Iudean, Ovidiu Emil – Onojescu, Alexandru – Sava, Alina – Popovici, Vlad (eds.). Un medic transilvănean: Nicolae Stoia (1830–1879). Studiu biografic, corespondență și documente. A Transylvanian physician: Nicolae Stoia (1830–1879). A biography with letters and papers. Cluj-Napoca: Mega, 2018, 251 p., e-book, ISBN 978-606-543-866-8.
• Pál, Judit – Popovici, Vlad (eds.). Elites and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe 1848–1918. Frankfurt am Main etc.: Peter Lang, 2014, 295 p. ISBN 978-3-631-64939-8; ISBN eBook: 978-3-653-04031-9.

Articles in other peer-reviewed journals

• Hirsch, Sandra – Popovici, Vlad. The conduct lists of military physicians Ioan Arsenie and Bucur (Hilarius) Mitrea during the Mexican campaign (1864–1866). Revista Română de Medicină Militară/Roumanian Journal of Military Medicine, 2021, 124, No. 1, p. 71–75. ISSN 1222-5126.
• Hirsch, Sandra – Horváth, Csaba – Lumezeanu, Angela-Cristina – Popovici, Vlad. Digital Framework for the History of the Austrian Military Border in Transylvania, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia, 2019, 64, No. 2, p. 5–53. ISSN 2559-6721
• Popovici, Vlad. Astra et les officiers roumaines de Transylvanie, avant et immédiatement après la Grande Union (1910–1920). Transylvanian Review. 2019, vol. XXVIII, No. 4 (Winter), p. 74–89. ISSN 1221-1249; 2067-1016.
• Popovici, Vlad. Officiers et société civile roumaine en Transylvanie (1790–1867). Revue Roumaine d’Histoire, 2019, 58, p. 35–42. ISSN 0556-8072.
• Varga, Rada – Popovici, Vlad. Building life courses and explaining life choices with the help of digital prosopography. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Digitalia, 2018, 63, No. 2, p. 51–64, ISSN (online): 2559-6721. ISSN-L: 2559-6721, DOI:10.24193/subbdigitalia.2018.2.
• Longaver, Timea – Popovici, Vlad. Considerații privind corpul funcționarilor administrativi județeni din zonele cu populație săsească în perioada 1919–1925 [Remarks regarding the county administrative officials in the Saxon areas during 1919–1925], Studia Universitatis Cibiniensis. Series Historia, 2018, XV, p. 159–172. ISSN 1584-3165.
• Popovici, Vlad. Astra’s membership in the early 1900s. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Historia, 2018, 63, 2, p. 36–61. ISSN 1220-0492, ISSN-L 2065-9598. doi:10.24193/subbhist.2018.2.03
• Popovici, Vlad. Establishment of the Austrian Military Border in Transylvania and Its Short- and Medium-term Effects. Povijesni Prilozi. Historical Contributions, 2018, 37, no. 54, p. 291–307. DOI: 10.22586/pp.v54i1.73, ISSN 0351-9767, 1848-9087.
• Popovici, Vlad. Romanian research on elites of the 19th and 20th centuries. Historica. Revue pro historii a příbuzné vědy, 2017, 1, p. 87–104. ISSN 1803-7550.
• Popovici, Vlad. Notes on the Image of Croatia and the Croats with the Romanians from Transylvania (1867–1914). Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Historia, 2016, 61, No. 2, p. 93–108. ISSN 1220-0492, ISSN-L 2065-9598.
• Botoș, Raluca – Mârza, Daniela – Popovici, Vlad. Censuses between Population Statistics and Politics. The Romanian Press from Hungary and the Censuses between 1869 and 1910. Roumanian Journal of Population Studies. 2016, X, No. 1, p. 5–18. ISSN 1843-5998.
• Popovici, Vlad. Parish registers from Transylvania – sources for the History of Medicine (late 18th – early 20th centuries). Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica, 2015, XIII, No. 2, p. 287–302. ISSN 1334-4366, 1334-6253.
• Crăciun, Bogdan – Holom, Elena Crinela – Popovici, Vlad. Historical Population Database of Transylvania: Methodology Employed in the Selection of Settlements and Micro Zones of Interest. Roumanian Journal of Population Studies, 2015, IX, No. 2, p. 17–30. ISSN 1843-5998.
• Iudean, Ovidiu – Popovici, Vlad. Romanian election newssheets in Banat and Transylvania before 1918. Analele Banatului. S.N. Arheologie-Istorie, 2014, XXII, p. 355–361, ISSN: 1221-678X.
• Popovici, Vlad. Reprezentanții Sebeșului în Parlamentul Ungariei 1866–1918 [Representatives of the constituency of Sebeș in the Parliament of Hungary 1866–1918]. Terra Sebvs, 2014, 6, p. 451–471. ISSN 2066-9143, 2344-5432.
• Popovici, Vlad. Family relations and group mobilization within the Romanian political elite in Transylvania (1861–1900), Transylvanian Review. 2013, vol. XXI, supplement No. 2, [Economic and Social Evolutions at the Crossroads of the World-System], p. 107–118. ISSN 1221-1249; 2067-1016.
• Popovici, Vlad. The Romanian Medical Historiography (1813–2008). Philobiblon, 2010, XIV, p.  271–289. ISSN 1224-7448.
• Popovici, Vlad. Elita politică românească din Transilvania (1861–1881). O perspectivă alternativă [The Romanian Political Elite from Transylvania – an Alternate Perspective]. Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Historica. 2010, 14/I, p. 213–227. ISSN 1453-9314.