Research projects completed
(selection)
1993-1995:
“Gypsies in Romania. A glance at the history of an ethnic minority"
Project funded by Central European University, Budapest, through the Research Support Scheme.
Researcher: Viorel Achim
Main publication:
• Ţiganii în istoria României [The Gypsies in Romanian History]. Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică, 1998, 202 pp. (Colecţia “Biblioteca Enciclopedică de istorie a României" [“The Enciclopedic Library of Romanian History" Series])
• Cigányok a román történelemben. Fordította Török Blanka Csilla. A fordítást eredetivel egybevetette Schültz István. Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 2001, 255 pp. (Osiris könyvtár. Történelem) (ISBN 963-379-913-9) (translation)
• Tziganite v istorijata na Rumănija. Sofia: Infonet 2000, 2002, 208 pp. (translation)
• The Roma in Romanian History. Budapest, New York: Central European University Press, 2004, VI, 233 pp. (ISBN 963-9241-84-9) (translation)
2001-2003:
“Documents concerning the deportation of the Romanian Gypsies to Transnistria (1942-1944)"
Project funded by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Researcher: Viorel Achim
Publication:
• Documente privind deportarea ţiganilor în Transnistria [Documents Concerning the Deportation of Gypsies to Transnistria]. Culegere întocmită, cu Studiu Introductiv, de Viorel Achim. Vols. I-II. Bucharest: Editura Enciclopedică, 2004, CCLVIII, 353 pp. (I); 656 pp. (II) (ISBN 973-45-0498-3; ISBN 973-45-0499-1)
2007-2010:
“The Gypsy Problem in Romania in the Nineteenth Century. The Institution of Slavery, Abolitionist Movement and Emancipation of Gypsies"
The project was carried out at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, by a research team build up by Dr. Viorel Achim (project director), Dr. Raluca Tomi, Dr. Venera Achim, Florina Manuela Constantin, PhD, and Petre Matei, PhD.
The project was funded by the National University Research Council (today, the ·National Research Council, CNCS) through the Executive Agency for Higher Education and University Research Funding (today, the Executive Agency for Higher Education Research and Innovation Funding, UEFISCDI).
Project code: PN-II-ID-PCE-2007-1-717
Project description
Main publications:
• Documente de arhivă privind robia ţiganilor. Epoca dezrobirii [Archives Documents Concerning the Gypsy Slavery. Period of Emancipation]. Collection edited by Venera Achim and Raluca Tomi. With the collaboration of Florina Manuela Constantin. Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române, 2010, lxxv + 285 pp. (ISBN 978-973-27-2014-1);
• Minorităţile etnice în România în secolul al XIX-lea [Ethnic Minorities in Romania in the Nineteenth Century]. Edited by Venera Achim and Viorel Achim. Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române, 2010, 316 pp. (ISBN 978-973-27-2022-6);
• Identity Projects and Processes in the Romanian Space, 19th-20th Centuries. Edited by Viorel Achim. Cluj-Napoca: Romanian Academy, Center for Transylvanian Studies, 2010, 160 pp. (= Transylvanian Review, Vol. XIX, Supplement No. 4).
Other publications
2008-2010:
“The policy of the Antonescu government towards the “religious sects".The case of the Evangelical cults"
Project funded by the “Elie Wiesel" National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest.
Publication:
• Viorel Achim (editor): Politica regimului Antonescu faţă de cultele neoprotestante. Documente [The Policy of the Antonescu Regime towards the Neoprotestant Denominations. Documents]. Bucharest: Editura Institutului Naţional pentru Studierea Holocaustului din România "Elie Wiesel"; Iaşi: Polirom, 2013, 931 pp. (Document).
