Mara Marginean
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Full Biography
Mara Mărginean is a historian of the 20th century, specializing in the economic and social history of the industrializing regions of Romania. Her research interests include labor relations, exploitation of natural resources and aspects of living standards, including institutions, expert communities and transnational knowledge production and transmission. She is currently a senior researcher at the George Baritiu Institute of History in Cluj Napoca. Previously, she has conducted extensive archival research in Romania, Switzerland, Italy, the UK and Russia and coordinated several research projects, including “Entangled Neighborhoods of Youth: Approaches to Housing for Young Urban Workers in 1970s Romania” (2018-2020) and “The Value of a Calorie: Food Politics and the Shaping of Living Standards in Mid-20th Century Romania” (2021-2022).
Major Publications
· „Vehicles of Knowledge Circulation: The Centre for the Improvement of Management Personnel in Enterprises (CEPECA) and Romania’s Cooperation with the United Nations in the Long 1970s.” In Worlds of Management: Transregional Perspectives on Management Knowledge, 1950s–1970s, eds. Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen, Lukas Becht, Florian Peters, Vítězslav Sommer. Special issue: Comparativ. A Journal on Global History and Comparative Analysis of Societies/Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und Vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 33 (2023) 5-6: 602-620.
· „The Value of a Calorie: Food Policies and the Making of Standards of Living in the Mid-20th Century Romania,” New Europe College Stefan Odobleja Program Yearbook (2021-2022): 131-159.
· „(Mis)Managing Industrial Labor Productivity by the late 1950s: Work, Collective Consumption and Technologies of Nation Building in Romania.” In New Perspectives in Transnational History of Communism in East-Central Europe, Krzysztof Brzechczyn (ed.), (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020): 199-219.