Silvia MARTON is associate professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Bucharest. She was member of the CNRS-funded network “Politics and corruption: history and sociology” (GDRI CNRS 840) (2017-2020), and of “Entangled Histories of the Danubian Quarantine System (1774–1914)”, Principal Investigator Constantin Ardeleanu, Romanian National Council for Scientific Research (Uefiscdi – Exploratory Research Projects PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-1374). Currently, she is Principal Investigator of ”Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals and Xenophobia in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development in Romania (CanCor)” (2022-2024), Romanian National Council for Scientific Research (Uefiscdi – Exploratory Research Projects PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0399), and of “Transnational histories of ‘corruption’ in Central-South-East Europe (1750-1850) (TransCorr)” (2023-2028), European Research Council Advanced Grant (ERC-2022-AdG no. 101098095) (both projects hosted by the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest).
Her research focuses on the relationship between modernization and state- and nation-building in nineteenth-century Romania and East Europe, and on the place of anti-Semitism and parliamentarism in these processes. Her scholarship has also made contributions to the new constructivist history and sociology of political “corruption.”
She recently published “La ‘corrupción’ electoral en Rumania. Los comienzos titubeantes de la democracia/ Electoral ‘corruption’ in Romania. Democracy’s reluctant beginnings”, Ayer. Revista de Historia Contemporánea, vol. 115, no. 3, 2019, p. 77-104; “Regime, Parties, and Patronage in Contemporary Romania”, in János Mátyás Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi (eds.), Brave New Hungary: Mapping the “System of National Cooperation”, Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield), 2019, p. 357-378; “Transparency” and “corruption” in Romanian electoral politics (1866–1914)”, in Jens Ivo Engels, Frédéric Monier (eds.), History of Transparency in Politics and Society, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, Göttingen, 2020, p. 35-51; „Política «oculta»: Publicidad, secretismo, transparencia e inteligibilidad en la Rumanía de finales del siglo XIX” (with Andrei-Dan Sorescu), in Frédéric Monier, Lluís Ferran Toledano, Joan Pubill and Gemma Rubí (eds.), Las sombras de la transparencia. Secreto, corrupción y “Estado profundo” en la Europa contemporánea / The Shadows of Transparency. Secret, Corruption and “Deep State” in Modern Europe, Comares, Granada, 2022, p. 21-43.