Raul Carstocea

Biography
Dr Raul Cârstocea is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century European History. He completed his PhD at University College London and has previously worked as Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Leicester, Lecturer in European Studies at the Europa Universität Flensburg, Senior Research Associate at the European Centre for Minority Issues, and Teaching Fellow at University College London. He has held research fellowships at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg, the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, King’s College London, and the Imre Kértesz Kolleg Jena.
His research interests focus on antisemitism, nationalism, fascism, and more broadly on state formation and nation-building processes in 19th and 20th century Central, Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe and their consequences for minority groups. He is co-editor of the Modern History of Politics and Violence book series at Bloomsbury and Vice-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe at the Council of Europe.
Research Interests
My forthcoming monograph, provisionally titled Enemies of the Resurrection: Antisemitism and Fascism in the Ideology of the Legionary Movement in Interwar Romania, addresses the role of anti-Semitism in the ideology of the ‘Legion of the Archangel Michael’, Romania’s interwar fascist movement, and the role it performed as a mobilising political tool.
My other research interests include:
My other research interests include:
- State formation processes and the role of alterity in negotiating definitions of ‘the national’
- Perceptions and self-perceptions of Central and Eastern Europe as a periphery in European and global history
- Transnational antisemitism and transnational far-right networks, historical and contemporary
- Temporalities of fascist movements and regimes
- Forms of labour (voluntary and forced) in fascist movements and regimes
- The Holocaust in Romania
- Nationalism and imperialism in Central and Eastern Europe
- Representations of colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe
- Critical area studies (with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe)
- Psychoanalytic approaches to anti-Semitism, racism, and othering
Research Projects
Edited Book
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2019 | Raul Cârstocea and Éva Kovács (Ed.). (2019) Modern Antisemitisms in the Peripheries: Europe and its Colonies, 1880-1945. Vienna: New Academic Press, [Link] |
Edited Journal Issue
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2022 | Andreea Cârstocea and Raul Cârstocea (2022) Marginality on the Margins of Europe – The Impact of COVID-19 on Roma Communities in Non-EU Countries in Eastern Europe. Germany: EJRNL [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
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2022 | Raul Cârstocea (2022) 'War against the Poor: Social Violence Against Roma in Eastern Europe During COVID-19 at the Intersection of Class and Race'. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, 21 (2):81-109. https://doi.org/10.53779/QPLK4474 [Full-Text] | |
2022 | Raul Cârstocea (2022) 'Synchronous Nationalisms – Reading the History of Nationalism in South-Eastern Europe Between and Beyond the Binaries'. National Identities, 24 (5):481-503. [DOI] | |
2021 | Raul Cârstocea (2021) 'Between Europeanisation and Local Legacies: Holocaust Memory and Contemporary Anti-Semitism in Romania'. East European Politics and Societies, 35 (2):313-335. [DOI] | |
2021 | Raul Cârstocea (2021) 'Debate: Decolonising Fascist Studies'. Fascism, 10 (2):327-329. [DOI] | |
2021 | Raul Cârstocea (2021) 'Debate: Donald Trump and Fascism Studies'. Fascism, 10 (1):9-10. [DOI] | |
2020 | Raul Cârstocea (2020) 'Historicising the Normative Boundaries of Diversity: The Minority Treaties of 1919 in a Longue Durée Perspective'. Studies on National Movements, 5 :43-79. [Link] | |
2017 | Raul Cârstocea (2017) 'Building a Fascist Romania: Voluntary Work Camps as a Propaganda Strategy of the Legionary Movement in Interwar Romania'. Fascism, 6 (2):163-195. [DOI] | |
2015 | Raul Cârstocea (2015) 'Breaking the Teeth of Time: Mythical Time and the ‘Terror of History’ in the Rhetoric of the Legionary Movement in Interwar Romania'. Journal of Modern European History, 13 (1):79-97. [DOI] | |
2014 | Raul Cârstocea (2014) 'Path to the Holocaust: Fascism and Anti-Semitism in Interwar Romania'. S:I.M.O.N. (Shoah: Intervention, Methods, Documentation), 1 (1):43-53. [Link] | |
2009 | Raul Cârstocea (2009) 'Uneasy Twins? The Entangled Histories of Jewish Emancipation and Anti-Semitism in Romania and Hungary, 1866-1913'. Slovo, 21 (2):64-85. | |
2008 | Raul Cârstocea (2008) 'Heirs of the Archangel? The ‘New Right’ Group and the Development of the Radical Right in Romania'. eSharp, :22-48. [Link] |
Book Chapter
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2023 | Raul Cârstocea (2023) 'The Unbearable Virtues of Backwardness: Mircea Eliade’s Conceptualisation of Colonialism and his Attraction to Romania’s Interwar Fascist Movement' In: East Central Europe Between the Colonial and the Postcolonial in the Twentieth Century. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. [Link] [DOI] | |
2022 | Raul Cârstocea and Maarten Van Ginderachter (2022) 'Smallness and the East-West Binary in Nationalism Studies. Belgium and Romania in the Long Nineteenth Century' In: The Politics of Smallness in Modern Europe. Size, Identity and International Relations since 1800. London : Bloomsbury. [Link] | |
2022 | Cosme Jesús Gómez Carrasco and Raul Cârstocea (2022) 'Enseñanza de la historia, identidad europea y la iniciativa del Observatorio sobre Enseñanza de la Historia en Europa' In: La identidad europea en la educación española. Madrid : Fundación 1o de Mayo, Instituto de Estudios Educativos y Sindicales. | |
2020 | Raul Cârstocea (2020) 'Bringing Out the Dead: Mass Funerals, Cult of Death and the Emotional Dimension of Nationhood in Romanian Interwar Fascism' In: Emotions and Everyday Nationalism in Modern European History. London : Routledge. [Link] | |
2020 | Raul Cârstocea (2020) 'Approaching Generic Fascism from the Margins: On the Uses of ‘Palingenesis’ in the Romanian Context' In: Beyond the Fascist Century. Essays in Honour of Roger Griffin. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan. [Link] | |
2019 | Raul Cârstocea and Éva Kovács (2019) 'The Centre Does Not Hold: Antisemitisms in the Peripheries between the Imperial, the Colonial and the National' In: Modern Antisemitisms in the Peripheries: Europe and its Colonies, 1880-1945. Vienna : New Academic Press. | |
2017 | Raul Cârstocea (2017) 'Native Fascists, Transnational Anti-Semites: The International Activity of Legionary Leader Ion I. Moţa' In: Fascism without Borders: Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945. New York : Berghahn Books. [DOI] | |
2016 | Raul Cârstocea (2016) 'Students Don the Green Shirt. The Roots of Romanian Fascism in the Anti-Semitic Student Movements of the 1920s' In: Alma Mater Antisemitica. Akademisches Milieu, Juden und Antisemitismus an den Universitäten Europas zwischen 1918 und 1939. Vienna : New Academic Press. | |
2013 | Raul Cârstocea (2013) 'European History of Minority Relations' In: Minority Issues in Europe: Rights, Concepts, Policy. Berlin : Frank & Timme. | |
2008 | Raul Cârstocea (2008) ' A Marginal Group on Europe’s Margin? Anti-Semitism in Romania from the Congress of Berlin to the ‘Legion of the Archangel Michael’' In: Europe as Viewed from the Margins. An East-Central European Perspective from World War I to the Cold War. Târgovişte : Cetatea de Scaun. |
Other Journal
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2019 | Raul Cârstocea (2019) 'Holocaust-Gedenken und Antisemitismus in Rumänien' Europäische Rundschau, 47 (2) :39-45. | |
2014 | Raul Cârstocea (2014) 'Anti-Semitism in Romania: Historical Legacies, Contemporary Challenges' ECMI Research Paper #81, :1-39. [Link] | |
2014 | Raul Cârstocea (2014) 'Historisches Erbe und Gegenwart des rumänischen Antisemitismus' Europäische Rundschau, 42 (2) :83-106. |
Article
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2022 | Raul Cârstocea (2022) The Democratisation of History. Strasbourg: ARTCL [Link] |
Book Review
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2022 | Raul Cârstocea (2022) Review of James Koranyi, 'Migrating Memories: Romanian Germans in Modern Europe'. BREV https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghac051 | |
2021 | Raul Cârstocea (2021) Review of Krisztina Lajosi and Andreas Stynen, ‘The Matica and Beyond: Cultural Associations and Nationalism in Europe’. Studies on National Movements 7(1): BREV [Link] | |
2020 | Raul Cârstocea (2020) Racial Scalarity and the Imperial Imaginaries of Antisemitism. Review of Dorian Bell, ‘Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and Empire in French and European Culture’. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 21(2): BREV [DOI] | |
2019 | Raul Cârstocea (2019) Historicising the Present. A Conceptual Reading of Postfascism. Review of Enzo Traverso, ‘The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right’. H-Net Reviews, H-Nationalism: BREV [Link] | |
2016 | Raul Cârstocea (2016) Review of Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe, ‘Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Fascist. Fascism, Genocide and Cult’. Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe 16(1): BREV [Link] | |
2009 | Raul Cârstocea (2009) Review of Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, ‘Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania’. The English Historical Review 124(511): BREV | |
2008 | Raul Cârstocea (2008) Review of Sean Hanley, ‘The New Right in the New Europe: Czech Transformation and Right-wing Politics, 1989-2006’. Slovo 20(1): BREV |
Published Report
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2023 | Observatory on History Teaching in Europe (contributing author) (2023) Pandemics and Natural Disasters as Reflected in History Teaching. Council of Europe, . [Link] | |
2017 | Raul Cârstocea and Andreea Cârstocea (2017) The Roma in Moldova. European Centre for Minority Issues, . [Link] |
Blog
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2021 | Raul Cârstocea (2021) First as Tragedy, Then as Farce? AUR and the Long Shadow of Fascism in Romania. Bucharest: BLOG [Link] | |
2020 | Raul Cârstocea (2020) Othering the Pandemic: Scales of Exclusion and Solidarity. Jena: BLOG [Link] | |
2020 | Andreea Cârstocea, Raul Cârstocea and Craig Willis (2020) The Impact of COVID-19 on Roma Communities in Non-EU Countries in Eastern Europe. Flensburg: BLOG [Link] |
Conference Contribution
Policy Contribution
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2015 | Mindaugas Kuklys and Raul Cârstocea (2015) Instigations of Separatism in the Baltic States. ECMI Issue Brief #35: POLICY [Link] |
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Vice-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council [Link] |
Teaching Interests
My teaching focuses on the cultural, conceptual, intellectual, and political history of Central and Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on state formation and nation-building processes, nationalism, anti-Semitism, fascism, and the Holocaust.
In the academic year 2022-23, I am convening the following modules:
HY3004 'Fascism: A Transnational History'
HY3010 'The Global Cold War'
HY6002 'The Modern Politics of Time'
HY6003 'Historiography of Modern Europe / Nationalism in Modern Europe: A Conceptual History'
HY681 'Readings in Modern European History / A History of Genocide'
In the academic year 2022-23, I am convening the following modules:
HY3004 'Fascism: A Transnational History'
HY3010 'The Global Cold War'
HY6002 'The Modern Politics of Time'
HY6003 'Historiography of Modern Europe / Nationalism in Modern Europe: A Conceptual History'
HY681 'Readings in Modern European History / A History of Genocide'