Academic title: Associate Professor (tenured position)

CV | Silvia Marton began her research and teaching career by studying the relationship between modernization and the state and nation building processes in the 19th century Romania and Eastern Europe, with an increased focus on anti-Semitism and parliamentarism. Through her interdisciplinary approach from complementary scientific fields, including conceptual and intellectual history, political science and historical sociology, her recent research contributes to the new history and constructivist sociology of political “corruption.”

Octomber 2023-September 2028 – project director / PI, ”Transnational histories of ‘corruption’ in Central-South-East Europe (1750-1850) (TranCorr)”, European Research Council Advanced Grant (ERC-2022-AdG no. 101098095) https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101098095

“Transnational histories of ‘corruption’ in Central-South-East Europe (1750-1850)” – TransCorr – YouTube 

Fields of research: History and sociology of political corruption; the construction of the nation-state in central and eastern Europe; the nature of anti-Semitism in the 19th century; parliamentarism and the political regime in Romania.

Courses: SPE, SPF, RISE, MPE, MPC

Recent publications:

•  “Regime, Parties, and Patronage in Contemporary Romania.” In Brave New Hungary: Mapping the “System of National Cooperation,” edited by János Mátyás Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi. Rowman and Littlefield, 2019, 357-378.
• “La ‘corrupción’ electoral en Rumania. Los comienzos titubeantes de la democracia.”  Revista de Historia Contemporánea 115, no. 3 (2019): 77-104 https://doi.org/10.55509/ayer/115-2019-04.
• “Transparency” and “corruption” in Romanian electoral politics (1866–1914).” In History of Transparency in Politics and Society, edited by Jens Ivo Engels and Frédéric Monier. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, 2020, 35-51.
• Hinnerk Bruhns, Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot, Silvia Marton and Anca Oroveanu, editors. Mattei Dogan. Pionnier de la recherche comparative internationale en sciences sociales. Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit, 2022.
• “Wandel und Kontinuität in der rumänischen Außenpolitik.” In Nationsbildung und Außenpolitik im Osten Europas. Nationsbildungsprozesse, Konstruktionen nationaler Identität und außenpolitische Positionierungen im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, edited by Bianka Pietrow-Ennker. Osnabrück: Fibre Verlag, 2022, 651-677.
• “Política «oculta»: Publicidad, secretismo, transparencia e inteligibilidad en la Rumanía de finales del siglo xix” (with Andrei-Dan Sorescu). In Las sombras de la transparencia. Secreto, corrupción y „Estado profundo” en la Europa contemporánea, edited by Frédéric Monier, Lluís Ferran Toledano, Joan Pubill, Gemma Rubí. Editorial Comares, 2022, 21-43.
• “Hopeless corruption? Negotiating modernity in Wallachia and Moldavia in the 1830s.” In Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Vigilance, and State Building from Early to Late Modern Times, edited by Ricard Torra-Prat, Joan Pubill-Brugués, Arndt Brendecke. Routledge, 2024, 251-267.
• “Introduction: Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals, and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania” (with Andrei Sorescu). East European Politics and Societies 39, no. 3 (2025): 680-690 https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254251352114.
• “Shades of Dependency and the Discourse on “Corruption”: Railway Concessions in Romania in the Nineteenth Century.” East European Politics and Societies 39, no. 3 (2025): 691-716 https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254251352113.

Topics for BA/MA coordination: (1) the history and sociology of political corruption, (2) nation-state building in Central and Eastern Europe, (3) the nature of anti-Semitism in the 19th century, (4) parliamentarianism and the political regime in Romania

Office hours:  Monday, 17h30 by appointment by email

E-mail: silvia.marton@unibuc.ro