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Raul Cârstocea

He is Professor of History at Maynooth University. He completed his PhD at University College London and has previously worked as Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leicester, Lecturer in European Studies at the Europa Universität Flensburg, Senior Research Associate at the European Centre for Minority Issues, and Teaching Fellow at University College London. He has held research fellowships at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, King’s College London, and the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena.
His research interests focus on antisemitism, nationalism, fascism, and more broadly on state formation and nation-building processes in 19th and 20th century Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe and their consequences for minority groups. He is co-editor of the Modern History of Politics and Violence book series at Bloomsbury and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe at the Council of Europe.
His ERC Consolidator Grant research project "Insurgent Temporalities: Fascism as a Global Anti-Universalist Project" (INTEMPO) examines interwar fascism as a global phenomenon, with a particular focus on fascist temporalities and their role in the fascist restructuring of space.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7400-1159

BOOKS

PUBLICATIONS

Cârstocea, R., & Kovács, É. (Eds.). (2019). Modern Antisemitisms in the peripheries: Europe and its colonies, 1880–1945. Vienna: New Academic Press.

Kovács, É., Cârstocea, R., & Egry, G. (Eds.). (2025). Ethnicizing Europe: Hate and violence after Versailles. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press.

Cârstocea, A., & Cârstocea, R. (Eds.). (2022). Marginality on the margins of Europe – The impact of COVID-19 on Roma communities in non-EU countries in Eastern Europe [Special issue]. Germany.

Palko, O., Foster, S., & Cârstocea, R. (Eds.). (2024a). Special Issue: Minorities at war (Part 1): State policies in times of conflict [Special issue]. Flensburg, Germany.

Palko, O., Foster, S., & Cârstocea, R. (Eds.). (2024b). Special Issue: Minorities at war (Part 2): Minority agency in times of conflict [Special issue].

Cârstocea, R., Palko, O., & Foster, S. (2024). Minorities at war, Part 2: Minority agency in times of conflict. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 23.

Foster, S., Cârstocea, R., & Palko, O. (2024). Minorities at war, Part 1: State policies in times of conflict. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 23.

Cârstocea, R. (2022a). War against the poor: Social violence against Roma in Eastern Europe during COVID-19 at the intersection of class and race. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 21.

Cârstocea, R. (2022b). Synchronous nationalisms – Reading the history of nationalism in South-Eastern Europe between and beyond the binaries. National Identities, 24(5), 481–503. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2022.2025716

Cârstocea, R. (2021a). Between Europeanisation and local legacies: Holocaust memory and contemporary anti-Semitism in Romania. East European Politics and Societies, 35(2), 313–335. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325419863839

Cârstocea, R. (2021b). Debate: Decolonising Fascist Studies. Fascism, 10(2), 327–329. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-bja10035

Cârstocea, R. (2021c). Debate: Donald Trump and Fascism Studies. Fascism, 10(1), 9–10. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-01001005

Cârstocea, R. (2020a). Historicising the normative boundaries of diversity: The Minority Treaties of 1919 in a longue durée perspective. Studies on National Movements, 5, 43–79.

Cârstocea, R. (2017). Building a fascist Romania: Voluntary work camps as a propaganda strategy of the Legionary Movement in interwar Romania. Fascism, 6(2), 163–195. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00602003

Cârstocea, R. (2015). Breaking the teeth of time: Mythical time and the ‘terror of history’ in the rhetoric of the Legionary Movement in interwar Romania. Journal of Modern European History, 13(1), 79–97. https://doi.org/10.17104/1611-8944_2015_1_79

Cârstocea, R. (2014). Path to the Holocaust: Fascism and anti-Semitism in interwar Romania. S:I.M.O.N., 1(1), 43–53.

Cârstocea, R. (2009). Uneasy twins? The entangled histories of Jewish emancipation and anti-Semitism in Romania and Hungary, 1866–1913. Slovo, 21(2), 64–85.

Cârstocea, R. (2008). Heirs of the Archangel? The ‘New Right’ group and the development of the radical right in Romania. eSharp, 22–48.

Cârstocea, R., & Sorescu, A. D. (2024). The (Great) numbers game: Demographic anxieties and quotas in 19th and 20th century Romania and the global antisemitic imaginary. In Quotas: The Jewish Question and Higher Education in Central Europe and Beyond (1880–1945). New York: Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805395270

Cârstocea, R. (2023a). The unbearable virtues of backwardness: Mircea Eliade’s conceptualisation of colonialism and his attraction to Romania’s interwar fascist movement. In East Central Europe between the colonial and the postcolonial in the twentieth century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Cârstocea, R. (2023b). Multidimensional, multimodal, multiskalar. Überlegungen über das ‘Daszwischen’ aus dem Leben eines Osteuropäers. In ZwischenWelten. Grenzüberschreitungen europäischer Geschichte. Darmstadt: WBG Academic.

Cârstocea, R., & Van Ginderachter, M. (2022). Smallness and the East-West binary in nationalism studies: Belgium and Romania in the long nineteenth century. In The politics of smallness in modern Europe: Size, identity and international relations since 1800. London: Bloomsbury.

Gómez Carrasco, C. J., & Cârstocea, R. (2022). Enseñanza de la historia, identidad europea y la iniciativa del Observatorio sobre Enseñanza de la Historia en Europa. In La identidad europea en la educación española. Madrid: Fundación 1º de Mayo.

Cârstocea, R. (2020a). Bringing out the dead: Mass funerals, cult of death and the emotional dimension of nationhood in Romanian interwar fascism. In Emotions and everyday nationalism in modern European history. London: Routledge.

Cârstocea, R. (2020b). Approaching generic fascism from the margins: On the uses of ‘palingenesis’ in the Romanian context. In Beyond the fascist century: Essays in honour of Roger Griffin. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Cârstocea, R., & Kovács, É. (2019). The centre does not hold: Antisemitisms in the peripheries between the imperial, the colonial and the national. In Modern Antisemitisms in the peripheries: Europe and its colonies, 1880–1945. Vienna: New Academic Press.

Cârstocea, R. (2017). Native fascists, transnational anti-Semites: The international activity of Legionary leader Ion I. Moţa. In Fascism without borders: Connections and cooperation between movements and regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945. New York: Berghahn Books.

Cârstocea, R. (2016). Students don the green shirt: The roots of Romanian fascism in the anti-Semitic student movements of the 1920s. In Alma Mater Antisemitica. Vienna: New Academic Press.

Cârstocea, R. (2013). European history of minority relations. In Minority issues in Europe: Rights, concepts, policy. Berlin: Frank & Timme.

Cârstocea, R. (2008). A marginal group on Europe’s margin? Anti-Semitism in Romania from the Congress of Berlin to the ‘Legion of the Archangel Michael’. In Europe as viewed from the margins. Târgovişte: Cetatea de Scaun.

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