Cristian Cercel

Dr. Cristian Cercel
Research Associate

Clemensstr. 17-19
44789 Bochum
Room 219

Telefon: +49 (0)234 32 - 24686

cristian.cercel@rub.de


Research Fields

  • Nationalism, transnationalism and ethnicity
  • Memory studies
  • Migration history
  • German minorities in Eastern Europe
  • Museum studies

Current Research Project

Vertriebene außerhalb Deutschlands. Die donauschwäbischen Nachkriegsauswanderungen nach La Roque-sur-Pernes (Frankreich) und Entre Rios (Brasilien)
 

Personal / Scientific Career

2016-2019 Researcher in the Horizon-2020 Projekt „UNREST“
2015 Advanced Academia Fellow, Centre for Advanced Study (Sofia)
2013-2014 Research Associate at Swansea University, Centre for Contemporary German Culture
2012-2013 Ștefan Odobleja Fellow, New Europe College (Bucharest)
2012 PhD, Durham University. Doctoral dissertation: „Philo-Germanism without Germans. Memory, Identity, and Otherness in Post-1989 Romania”
2009-2012 Durham Doctoral Fellowship
2006-2007 MA in Nationalism Studies, Central European University
2002-2006 BA in European Studies, Bucharest University


Fellowships

2017 Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme - Visiting Fellowship, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
2014 Fellowship of the Bühler-Stiftung-Berlin for Research in the Gerhard Knoll Research Library
2014 Visiting Fellowship, Leibniz Graduate School “History, Knowledge, Media in East Central Europe”
2008 Villa Waldberta Fellowship, Cultural Department, City of Munich
2007 Research Fellowship, Institute for German Culture and History at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich


Publications

Monograph

ARTICLES and CHAPTERS in EDITED VOLUMES

  • (with Nina Parish and Eleanor Rowley) War in the Museum: The Historial of the Great War in Péronne and the Military History Museum in Dresden. Journal of War and Culture Studies 12:2 (2019), pp. 194-214.
  • “Nichts bleibt vom Früheren / Nothing Remains of the Past.“ In Krieg. Macht. Sinn. Krieg und Gewalt in der europäischen Erinnerung, eds. Stefan Berger, Heinrich Theodor Grütter, Wulf Kansteiner. Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2019, pp. 138-167.
  • Între carnaval și politică. Memoria selectivă. In Ce mai rămâne din mai 68, eds. Alex Cistelecan, Alex Ciorogar. Bukarest: Fractalia, 2018, pp. 233-237.
  • Germanofilia autohtonă: o privire critică. In Reinventând germanitatea. Etnicizare, mobilitate și împrumut cultural la marginea Europei, eds. Ovidiu Oltean, Remus Gabriel Anghel, Christian Schuster. Bukarest: Tritonic, 2018, S. 257-281.
  • The Military History Museum in Dresden: Between Forum and Temple. History and Memory 30:1 (2018), pp. 3-39.
  • Postwar (West) German-Romanian Relations: Expanding Brubaker’s Analytic Triad. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 23:3 (2017), pp. 297-317.
  • Romanian Germans: Transnational History, Transnational Memory. Jahrbuch des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa 24 (2016), pp. 357-379.
  • Die Deportation der Rumäniendeutschen in die Sowjetunion und ihre Rolle in den Gedächtnis- und Identitätsdiskursen der in der Bundesrepublik lebenden Siebenbürger Sachsen in den 1950er und den 1960er Jahren. In Rumäniendeutsche Erinnerungskulturen: Formen und Funktionen des Vergangenheitsbezuges in der rumäniendeutschen Historiografie und Literatur, eds. Gerald Volkmer, Jürgen Lehmann. Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet Verlag, 2016, pp. 137-152.
  • Philo-Germanism without Germans in Romania after 1989. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures 29:4 (2015), pp. 811-830.
  • The 1991 Reburial of Frederick the Great and Its Potential Meanings. Studien und Vorträge zur preußischen Geschichte des 18. Jahrhunderts der Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten (14 December 2015)
  • Rumänien. Online-Lexikon zur Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (26 September 2013)
  • Transylvanian Saxon Symbolic Geographies. Civilisations 60:2 (2012), pp. 83-101.
  • Selbstbestimmungsrecht. Online-Lexikon zur Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (30 January 2012)
  • The Relationship between Religious and National Identity in the Case of Transylvanian Saxons, 1933-1945. Nationalities Papers 39:2 (2011), pp. 161-180. 
  • “Gli altri tedeschi”. Equilibri. Rivista per lo sviluppo sostenibile 13:3 (2009), pp. 423-428.

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