is Lecturer and Director of the Center for the Study of Totalitarianism at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, State University of Moldova, Chisinau. He received his Ph.D. in History from Jassy University in Romania in March 2000 and was Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Lenoir University, NC, in 2000, and at Stanford University and Hoover Institution, in 2016. In 2010 he served as vice chairman of the Presidential Commission for the Study and Evaluation of the Communist Totalitarian Regime in the Republic of Moldova. Among his research interests are Soviet Nationalities Policy and Political Repressions, Violence and Resistance in Soviet Moldavia during Stalinism and after 1953. Among his recent publications are “The Fate of Stalinist Victims in Soviet Moldavia after 1953: Amnesty, Pardon and the Long Road to Rehabilitation”, in Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe, eds., De-Stalinising Eastern Europe. The Rehabilitation of Stalin’s Victims, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015 and The Class Enemy. Political Repressions, Violence and Resistance in Moldavian (A)SSR, 1924-1956, Chișinău: Cartier, 2015, 388 pp., with an introduction by Vladimir Tismaneanu (in Romanian).
E-mail: igorcasu@gmail.com

is MA in History of Science at the University of Sãn Paulo, a History teacher at Prefecture of Cubatao, Brazil. Research interests: Shell Mounds; Industrial and Mining Archaeology; History of archaeology, Transhumanism. Recent publications on History of Archaeology and Neuroscience.
E-mail: mariliaoc@usp.br

is affiliated with the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania. His research interests include, among others, archaeology and heritage.
E-mail: stefan.caliniuc@gmail.com

holds the Canada Research Chair in Built Heritage at the University of Montreal where she directs a research program on heritage conservation in the School of Architecture, P.O. Box 6128, Station Centre-Ville, Montréal QC H3C 3J7. She has worked with the World Heritage Convention since 1987, chairing the Committee in 1990 and 2008, publishing on World Heritage concepts and co-authoring Many Voices, One Vision: The Early Years of the World Heritage Convention (2013).
E-mail: christina.cameron@umontreal.ca

is a Researcher at the Art History Institute in Bucharest. She graduated from the Faculty of History in Bucharest and holds a PhD in Arts. Her current research topics include the social history of public education in 19th century Romania; the interconnections between the history of education and material culture; Romanian art and material culture of the 19th century. Organizer and collaborator in projects and exhibitions about the material culture. She authored Clădiri școlare din România, 1864-1914. Politică de construire și model spațial, Ed. Istros a Muzeului Brăilei „Carol I”, Brăila, 2020 and published several academic articles concerning the history of education in national and international journals and volumes. In the last years, she published extensively on topics concerning the history of art. Her most recent contributions: Dicționarul pictorilor din România. Secolul al XIX-lea, Adrian-Silvan Ionescu (ed.), București, 2020; „Imaginile războiului în „Revista Copiilor şi a Tinerimii”, in Cătălina Mihalache, Nicoleta Roman (eds.), Copilării trecute prin război. Povești de viață, politici sociale și reprezentări culturale în România anilor 1913-1923, Iaşi, Editura Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, 2020; „Practici alimentare în școlile urbane la sfârșitul secolului al XIX-lea”, in Historia Urbana, XXVIII/2020.
E-mail: rcaramelea@yahoo.com

holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the Indiana University, USA. She is currently an Associate of the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology. Jennifer Cash is conducting ethnographic research in Moldova since 1999 on a variety of themes: ethnicity and nationalism, cultural politics, and – more recently – the relations between Moldova's economic transition and religious revival. She authored a book: Village on Stage. Folklore and Nationalism in the Republic of Moldova, LIT Verlag, Berlin, 2011.
E-mail: cashjennifer10@gmail.com

former Minister of Internal Affairs (1998-1999, 2009-2011), the co-chair of the Unified Control Commission (1992-1997), he is currently an associate professor at the Technical University of Moldova. During the spring-summer of 1992, as deputy minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, he organized the defence of the constitutional bodies against the separatist paramilitary formations from Tiraspol. As Minister of Internal Affairs (2009-2011), he took steps to reform the Ministry of Internal Affairs and subordinate structures according to European standards. He was decorated with the supreme military state distinction “Order of Stephen the Great” and the supreme state distinction “Order of the Republic”.
E-mail: victorcatan@rambler.ru

is a Lecturer at the Faculty of History at the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi. In September 2013 he defended his Ph.D in History at the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iaşi (Magna cum Laude). The title of his dissertation was Romanian-Russian Political and Diplomatic Relations (1878-1893). From January 2009 to September 2014, he was an Assistant Researcher at the Romanian Academy, within the A.D. Xenopol Institute of History in Iași. His fields of research interest focus on the following topics: history of international relations, history of Romanian-Russian relations (1866-1918), history of Romanian and European diplomacy in the 19th and 20th century. He has also been actively involved in the publishing and editing of diplomatic documents. He has published two books: Diplomați în Vechiul Regat. Familie, carieră și viață socială în timpul lui Carol I (1878- 1914) [Diplomats in the Old Kingdom. Family, Career and Social Life during the Rule of Charles I (1878–1914)], Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press, Iași, 2015, 374 pp; Politică și diplomație la sfârșitul secolului XIX. Din istoria relațiilor româno-ruse (1878- 1899) [Politics and Diplomacy During the Late 19th Century: From the History of Romanian-Russian Relations, 1878-1899], Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press, Iași, 2017, 464p., and numerous articles.
E-mail: bogdan.ceobanu@yahoo.com

is a researcher at the Lithuanian Historical Institute, Associate Professor at Vilnius University, and lecturer at the European Humanities University. Her scholarly interests are cultural heritage conservation theories, world and Lithuanian historiographies, cultural (especially post-communist) memory studies. She has authored 4 monographs, including her last work “Cultural heritage in the global world” (2010, Russian and Lithuanian versions) and about 60 research papers. Research interests: cultural heritage and collective memory studies, Soviet culture and post-Soviet transformation.
E-mail: rasa.cepaitiene@if.vu.lt

is a PhD candidate at “Valahia” University in Târgovişte. The recent scientific concerns of the author, also found in the PhD thesis, focus on the management and protection of cultural heritage. Besides, attention is directed to capitalizing and promoting heritage, focusing on targeted communication with different stakeholder categories. With over 14 years experience in research, museology and heritage management, she has published a series of studies, articles and volumes (individually or as a co-author) in ethnography, archaeology, museum education and heritage management. Among these: Civilizația tradițională a sării în sud-estul Transilvaniei, Editura Angustia, Sf. Gheorghe, 2013; „Marketingul patrimoniului imobil abordat prin proiect cultural” și „Noțiuni de comunicare”. In: Managementul integrat al patrimoniului imobil. Note de curs. Editor Pîrvu Ionică. Sf. Gheorghe, 2013; „The Archaeology Steps into the Smartphone Era! An Application for Mobile Devices, for Signalling, Tracking and Informing on Archaeological Sites from South-East Transylvania — a joint public-private research project”. In: S. Musteață, Ş. Caliniuc (eds.), Current Trends in Archaeological Heritage Preservation: National and International Perspectives. Proceedings of the International Conference, Iași, România, November 6-10, 2013. British Archaeological Report. International Series 2741 (Oxford 2015), 67- 72 (coauthors A. Popa & M. Chiricescu).
E-mail: andrea.chiricescu@gmail.com

is a historian, former secretary of the Romanian diplomatic mission in Moldova and Armenia, currently a professor at the Department of Archives of the “Al. I. Cuza” Academy in Bucharest. He published several books and articles on political changes in the Republic of Moldova.
E-mail: dorin.cimpoesu@dhmprint.ro

is an archaeologist from Romania who carried out archaeological research on dozens of Neolithic sites, but also from the Bronze Age, Iron and Classical Period, especially on the Mureş Valley. In 2001, he defended the PhD thesis on a topic related to the early Neolithic from the Intracarpathian Transylvania, a thesis published in 2005. Since 2001, he is an Associate Professor at Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu, teaching archaeology courses, and recently, courses linked with the protection of the national cultural heritage. He was part of several national and international research projects. Marius has published over 120 specialized studies and over 70 archaeological research reports, 3 author books and 2 collaborative books. Since 2006 he became a police officer specialized in the field of protection of cultural heritage (SSPCH), working in the judicial team led by Prosecutor General Augustin Lazar. Marius Mihai Ciută contributed to recover several stolen cultural heritage artefacts from the archaeological sites of the Dacian fortresses (golden bracelets, Koson coins, weapons and iron tools hoards, and gold and silver jewellery, etc.). He published over 20 articles in the field of the protection of the national cultural heritage, focused on the recovered artefacts, on the analysis of the poached contexts, but also on the study of the phenomenon of archaeological poaching.
E-mail: mariusciuta@yahoo.com

holds a PhD in History, Associate Professor at Free International University of Moldova (ULIM), former Dean of the Faculty of History and International Relations (ULIM). Her areas of interest and expertise include Bessarabian history/Bessarabian Zemstvo, Soviet and post-Soviet history and politics, European Union foreign and security policy. She is the author of various scholarly articles on Bessarabian history and the Republic of Moldova’s domestic and foreign policy..
E-mail: l_coada@yahoo.com

is an archaeologist from Romania. She is a PhD student at the `Alexandru Ioan Cuza` University from Iasi, Faculty of History and she studies the domain of forensic archaeology. She worked at the City Hall of Iasi as a speciality inspector in `Relations with Civil Society` Office. As a result of that, she is involved in organizing different cultural events like National Symposium `Cultural Heritage of Iasi District: evidence, preservation and revaluation` and till 2018 she was responsible for organizing the theme of Municipal Museum of Iasi. She has been involved in numerous projects on heritage protection since 2011 and her dissertation was on historical monuments dedicated to heroes of WWI from Vrancea County.
E-mail: larrycoben@sustainablepreservation.org

holds a PhD in history since May 25, 2003, with the thesis work on geopolitical situation of Romania during the Second World War. He graduated from the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest (the graduating class of 1994) and the National Defence College (the graduating class of 1998). He was an adviser for the Romanian Government Office for Relations with the Republic of Moldova (2004-2007) and a journalist for the Press Trust of the Ministry of National Defence within the TV Pro-Patria and „Observatorul Militar” newsrooms. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of international relation analysis, his area of expertise including foreign affairs and security policies, especially in the former Soviet region, as well as the relation between the Republic of Moldova and Romania. As an author, he published the following works: Sub povara marilor decizii (The Burden of Great Decisions), firstly edited by Editura Scripta, Bucharest, 2007, 591 p., Victorie însângerată. Decembrie 1989 (Bloody Victory. December 1989), edited by Editura Cetatea de Scaun, Târgovişte, 2014, 736 p.), Between August 17, 2018 – May 27, 2019, he served as Deputy Director of the Institute of the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 (IRRD 1989) and, later, as Scientific Director of IRRD 1989 (June 1 – December 31, 2019). Since January 2020, he is the editor-in-chief of the magazine „Enigmas of History”.
E-mail: costycorneanu71@gmail.com

is an associate professor at the Department of History, Valahia University of Târgoviște, Ph.D. Author of five books and over 40 studies, with topics related to Palaeolithic research and Geoarchaeology. The most recent studies address the prehistoric human activity in the Karst area of the Vârghiș Gorges (Harghita county) (Cave and Karst Systems of Romania, Editors Gheorghe M. L. Ponta, Bogdan P. Onac, Springer, Cave and Karst Systems of the World, Series editor James W. LaMoreaux, Tuscaloosa, USA, 2019; The Youngest Volcano in the Carpathians. Volcanism, Palaeoenvironment, Human Impact, Editors Dávid Karátson, Daniel Veres, Ralf Gertisser, Enikő K. Magyari, Csaba Jánosi, Ulrich Hambach, Spriger, 2022). In recent years, he has also addressed the relationship between archaeological research during the communist regime and the interventions of the State Security Department. ORCID no: 0000-0003-2753-3715
E-mail: cosac_marian@yahoo.com

is an archaeologist from Romania. She is a PhD student at the `Alexandru Ioan Cuza` University from Iasi, Faculty of History and she studies the domain of forensic archaeology. She worked at the City Hall of Iasi as a speciality inspector in `Relations with Civil Society` Office. As a result of that, she is involved in organizing different cultural events like National Symposium `Cultural Heritage of Iasi District: evidence, preservation and revaluation` and till 2018 she was responsible for organizing the theme of Municipal Museum of Iasi. She has been involved in numerous projects on heritage protection since 2011 and her dissertation was on historical monuments dedicated to heroes of WWI from Vrancea County.
E-mail: elenacozma26@gmail.com

is an architect from Romania. He is a lecturer at the University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu in Bucharest where he teaches heritage conservation and its legislation. As an attested specialist for architectural restoration, urbanism and historic parks & gardens and studies for historic monuments, he is member of the National Commission for Historic Monuments and chairman of one of its 12 zonal sections. He was general director for cultural heritage in the ministry of culture and personal advisor to several ministers and deputy ministers of culture. He was appointed team leader of a group that devised the Preliminary Theses of the new Code of Cultural Heritage, as part of the legal process of the legislative initiative of the Government; the Preliminary Theses were adopted by the Government and published in the Official Journal of Romania, part I. He is secretary-general of ICOMOS Romania.
E-mail: craciunescu_adi@yahoo.com

(b. 1982, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova) is an Associate Professor at the Department of History and Geography of the “Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University in Chișinău and a Researcher at the „A. D. Xenopol” Institute of History of the Romanian Academy in Iași, Romania. He holds an MA (2002) and a Ph.D. degree (2008) from the Department of History of the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. For a number of years, he has been working on issues related to Bessarabia’s symbolic geography, the competing Russian and Romanian visions of this contested region in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century, as well as on broader issues of Russian and Romanian intellectual history. During the academic year 2006-2007 he was a Fellow at the New Europe College in Bucharest. From September 2008, he was a Lecturer at the Department of History and Geography of the “Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University. Between September 2015 and January 2016 Dr. Cusco was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of History, University of Maryland (College Park). From April 2021, he is a Fellow at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg (Jena). Dr. Cusco’s first major publication is a book on the history of Bessarabia as a borderland of the Russian Empire (Bessarabia as a Part of the Russian Empire, 1812-1917), co-authored with Victor Taki and published at the Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie Press (Moscow) in 2012. His second book – A Contested Borderland: Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century – was published at the CEU Press in October 2017.
E-mail: andreicusco@yahoo.com

holds an MA (2002) and a Ph.D. degree (2008) from the Department of History of the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. His research interests focus on modern East European history, comparative history of the Eurasian empires, intellectual history and historiography. From September 2008, he was a Lecturer at the Department of History and Geography of the “Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University in Chișinău. From September 2016 he is an Associate Professor at the same department. Between September 2015 and January 2016 Dr. Cusco was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Department of History, University of Maryland (College Park). Dr. Cusco’s first major publication is a book on the history of Bessarabia as a borderland of the Russian Empire (Bessarabia as a Part of the Russian Empire, 1812-1917), co-authored with Victor Taki and published at the Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie Press (Moscow) in 2012. He has also co-edited a volume on Romania and its neighbors during the early phase of World War I. His second book – A Contested Borderland: Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century – was published at the CEU Press in October 2017.
E-mail: andreicusco@yahoo.com

graduated from the Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Communication Sciences, University of Oradea. He holds an MA in the History of the Romanian West. He is currently an editor at Ratio and Revelatio Publishing House.
E-mail: cristian.culiciu@yahoo.com

PhD, is Lecturer at the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania and specialist on Greek and Latin epigraphy and bilingualism, and experienced researcher in the ethnoarchaeological investigation of the salt springs of Romania.
E-mail: roxanigabriela@yahoo.com

is a historian and archaeologist specializing in the research of the Central and Eastern European Middle Ages. Between 1990 and 1993 he worked at the “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archeology, Romanian Academy in Bucharest. In 1998, he defended his doctoral thesis titled “Making an Early Medieval Ethnicity: the Case of the Early Slavs” at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, United States. Since 1999, he is a professor of history and medieval archeology at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. He is the author of four monographs, over 130 studies and articles, and over 60 reviews. He is also a co-author of a sociology dictionary. Professor Florin Curta also published six collective volumes, alone or in collaboration, lectured at several universities in North America, South America, and Europe.”
E-mail: fcurta@ufl.edu

is a professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. His books include Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 (Brill, 2019), and Slavs in the Making. History, Linguistics and Archaeology in Eastern Europe (ca. 500-ca. 700) (Routledge, 2021). He is also the editor of three collections of studies entitled East Central Europe and Eastern Europe in the Early Middle Ages (University of Michigan Press, 2005), The Other Europe in the Middle Ages: Avars, Bulgars, Khazars and Cumans (Brill, 2008), and The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1300 (Routledge, 2022). Curta is the editor of the Brill online Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages (and co-editor of the Brill series “East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450”). His most recent book, co- authored with Iurie Stamati, is Women Archaeologists under Communism, 1917-1989. Breaking the Glass Ceiling (Palgrave, 2021). His most recent book, co-authored with Sorin Paliga, is Slavii în perioada migraţiilor (Târgovişte: Cetatea de Scaun, 2023.
E-mail: fcurta@ufl.edu