Dr. Răzvan Roșu

• Cultural and Social Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Dialectology, Oral History.
• Oral culture in traditional communities from the Carpathian Mountains.
• History of the Habsburg Empire, Creating National Identities.
• Documentation of endangered languages and dialects in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
• Cultural, social and historical development of the ethnic and religious minorities in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe during the 19^th and 20^th centuries.

• 2017-2018: Scientific associate at the County Museum Satu Mare.
• 2014: Internship in the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural Sciences, Chișinău.
• 2013-2014: Research assistant at the Department of Slavistics, University of Jena.
• 2012-2013: Internship in the Folklore Archive of the Romanian Academy, Cluj Napoca.

PhD project:

• Archaism as an anthropological feature of the mountainous areas. Case study: Ţara Moţilor (Joint supervision with the Babeş-Bolyai-University of Cluj-Napoca)

2013 - 2015

• MA in South Eastern European Studies at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Department of Slavistics.

• Master thesis: Das Enklavisierungsphänomen in der Großkaroler Gegend: Motzen und Schwaben (language: German).

2010-2013

• BA at Babeș Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca in Ethnology and Anthropology.

• Erasmus student at University of Vienna.

Books

• 2018: Picu Condrii povestea unui munte prăvălit în câmpie (Picu Condrii the story of a mouintain pitched in the fields), Risoprint, Cluj Napoca.

• 2017: Multiculturalitate și enclavizare culturală în Transilvania, (Multiculturality and cultural enclavisation in Transylvania), Editura Mega, Cluj Napoca.

Articles

• 2011-2012: Viața cotidiană în Mărișel și Măguri în Munții Apuseni (secolele XIX ȘI XX) (The daily life in Mărișel and Măguri villages, Apuseni Mountains (19th and 20th centuries)). In: Buletinul Cercurilor Științifice Studențești, Alba Iulia nr. 17, 18.

• 2016: Zur Identität der Sathmarer Schwaben. In: Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, nr. 51, p. 236-251.

• 2016: Corinzile de sorginte precreștină din crângurile Mărișelului (The pre-Christian carols from the hamlets of Mărișel). In: Musik und Musikwissenschaft in Rumänien, Frank und Timme, Verlag für wissenschaftliche Literatur, p. 181-227 (together with Kahl, Thede).

• 2016: Un informator depozitar de excepție: Niculaie a Petrii Curtii din crângul Rusești (A man of memory informant: Niculaie a Petrii Curtii from Rusești hamlet). In: Philologica Jassyensia, XII, nr. 2 (24), p. 167-175.

• 2018: Etapele asimilării în comunitatea românească din Csengeújfalu (Uifalău) (Stages of assimilation in the Romanian community from Csengeújfalu). In: Simpozion. Comunicările celui de al XXVII-lea simpozion al cercetătorilor români din Ungaria, Giula, 2018, p. 69-101.

• 2018: The Ingenious Non-Typical Protagonist in the Transylvanian Rural World. Case Study: Ștefan Rus from Marna Nouă. In: Philologica Jassyensia, XIV, nr. 2 (28), p. 227-246.

I am a language anthropologist and ethnomusicologist based at the Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna.

Since 2010 I have conducted many different instances of field research among the Moți population from Țara Moților (Apuseni Mountains) and Carei region in Transylvania, Romania. Later, I began to focus on the whole spectrum of traditional communities from Transylvania: Romanians, Hungarians, Satu Mare Swabians, Jews, Ukrainians, Gypsies and Slovaks; as well as on the several religious denominations (Orthodox, Greek-Catholic, Roman-Catholic, Protestant and Judaism). During 2014-2019 I extended my research to other groups such as the Meglen Vlach, a Romance speaking group in Northern Greece, and the Vlachs (Romanians) from Timok in Northern Serbia. In the last two years I have become more interested in several groups from the Carpathian Mountains in Poland and Ukraine: Gorals and Hutsuls.
All field research data (Video, Audio and Photo) is being annotated and documented within the VLACH commission.