Marian Zăloagă is a researcher at the “Gheorghe Șincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities – Romanian Academy, Târgu – Mureș and a member of international scholarly societies. His role in PARI project as a researcher in the field of history covers the historical investigation of the involvement of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the life of the Roma people in the Danube Principalities and Transylvania during 18th up to the mid-20th century. He is also designated to contribute to the theoretical section of the project which focuses on the participatory approach methodology. In this respect, he will examine how Roma people have turned into active participants in articulating/affirming their collective identity in relation to religion.
Marian Zăloagă wrote a PhD thesis about the representation of the Roma people in the Transylvanian Saxons’ writings during the 18th and 19th century. He participated in several national and international research projects. He has written on different topics relevant to the Transylvanian musical cultures and continues to be interested in subjects relevant to the history of the minorities during and post – Great War.
Representative publications:
Marian Zăloagă, Romii în cultura săsească în secolele al XVIII-lea şi al XIX-lea, Editura I.S.P.M.N., Cluj – Napoca, 2015, ISBN 978-606-8377-35-3, (453 pp.)
Marian Zăloagă, Saşii transilvăneni în Marele Război. Episoade de istorie culturală, Editura MEGA, Cluj‑Napoca, 2019, ISBN 978-606-020-130-4, (306 pp.)
Marian Zǎloagǎ, „Die ‘Zigeunerin’ als ‘Hexe’. Eine Analyse der gegenwärtigen und historischen Dimension eines Diskurses und seiner Bedeutung für Identität“, Uerlings, Herbert / Patrut, Iulia-Karin (Hrsg.) ‘Zigeuner’ und Nation. Repräsentation – Inklusion – Exklusion, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2008, pp. 551-569.
Marian Zăloagă, „Germans, Hungarians and the Zigeunerkapelle: Performing National Enmity in Late Nineteenth-Century Transylvania”, Patterns of Prejudice, Volume 47, Issue 4-05, 2013, Special Issue: Music and the Other, pp. 379-394. (https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2013.851061)