Sorin Mitu#
| Membership Number: | 7063 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ROMANIA |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-6306-5405 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - 2025 Director of the Modern History Department, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
- 2003 - 2025 Professor, Faculty of History and Philosophy, UBB, Cluj-Napoca
- 2016 - 2024 Member, The History Commision of the National Council for Academic Titles and Diplomas (CNATDCU), Bucharest
- 2022 - 2025 Member of the Editorial Board of "Brukenthalia. Romanian Cultural History Review", Sibiu
- 2016 - 2025 Member of Editorial Board of "Territorial Identity and Development", Cluj
- 2015 - 2018 Expert of the Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ARACIS)
- 1994 - 1996 Member, Board of the Romanian and Hungarian Historians Partnership, Open Society Institute, Romania
- 1990 - 2002 Assistant Professor and Lecturer, Faculty of History and Philosophy, UBB, Cluj-Napoca
Fields of Scholarship
- Interethnic relations in Eastern Europe
- Social imaginary and collective myths
- Romanian-Hungarian relations
- Symbolic geographies
- History of Transylvania
- Modern European history
- Historical imagology
- Nationalism studies
Honours and Awards
- 2024 "Sever Frențiu" Award for Humanities
- 2019 Grant awarded by the European Union, Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine, ENI Cross-border Cooperation Programme
- 2015"Nicolae Iorga" Award of the Romanian Historical Society
- 2001 The UBB Award for Excellence in Research
- 1996 Grant awarded by the European Commission, Phare Programme for Democracy, Promoting Democracy by History Textbooks
