Researcher unique identifier(s) Constanta Vintila (0000-0003-3019-9578) (orcid.org)
Scopus Author ID: 36524151000
EDUCATION
2020 Habilitation (thesis: Mobility and Social Identity in the Danubian Principalities, 18th-early
19th centuries: A Social History), Romanian Academy
2012 PhD (thesis: The Romanian First Modernity, 1750-1850), Faculty of Sociology, University of
Bucharest, Social History and Sociology.
2004 PhD (thesis: ‘La construction et la désunion du couple. Les jeux du mariage dans la Valachie
au XVIIIe siècle’) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris, History and Civilization.
1999 Master (thesis : Construction et Déconstruction du couple. Les jeux du mariage dans la
Valachie au XVIIIe siècle) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale, Paris, History and
Civilization.
CURRENT POSITION
since 1998 – Senior Researcher, Institute of History ‘Nicolae Iorga’, Romanian Academy
2022 – 2024 – senior researcher of the project GUTEPOL – Good Order and Discipline in towns. Transylvania and Wallachia in the long 18th century – supported by the Romanian National Council for Scientific Research (UEFISCDI)
2021-2022 Member of the project Atlas numérique de systèmes familiaux et des pratiques familiales en Méditerranée. CNRS, Paris
2020-2025 Member of the Cost Action CA19131 Euroweb – Europe Through Textiles: Network for an Integrated and Interdisciplinary Humanities.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2015-2020 PI of the ERC project LuxFaSS-CoG-646489: Luxury, fashion and social status in Early Modern South-Eastern Europe. New Europe College: http://luxfass.nec.ro/
2020-2021 Member of the project Society and Economy on the Fringes of Empires. The Romanian Principalities in a Regional Context in the Premodern and Modern Periods. NEC-UEFISCDI.
2013-2016 PI of the national project PN-II-ID-PCE-2012-4-0079: Sexuality and Political-religious discourse in Romanian Pre-Modern Society (CNCS-UEFISCDI). Romanian Academy.
2015-2016 Researcher in the Romanian-Franco project: « Corruption et politique» (CorPo) – Campus France (PHC BRANCUŞI 2015) and UEFISCDI Romania (PN-II-CT-RO-FR-2014-2-0027)
2008-2009 PI of the teaching project: The body and its hypostases in Europe and in the Romanian Society, from Past to Present. New Europe Collège. Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2020-2021 Research Fellow to the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest
2015-2020 Recipient of the ERC Consolidator Grant LuxFass LuxFaSS (nec.ro)
2015-2016 Research Fellow to Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin http://www.wiko-berlin.de
2007 Directrice d’Etudes Associée, FMSH, Paris.
2006-2007 Research Fellow to the New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest
2004-2005 Postdoc, CRH-EHESS, Paris
2002-2003, Phd scholarship (5 months) ‘Marie Curie’, IRESCO, Paris.
2001-2002 Phd scholarship (10 month) New Europe Collège. Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest.
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATES STUDENS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
2022 3 PhD students at the Romanian Academy, Bucharest.
2015-2020 5 Postdoc students at the New Europe College. Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest.
2011-2013 1 Postdoc student at the Institute of History “Nicolae Iorga”, Romanian Academy, Bucharest.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2012-2015 Graduate Courses in Social History, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of
French Master, University of Bucharest
2014 Undergraduate courses in Social History of Modern Europe, Faculty of History and
Philosophy, University Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj.
2012-2014 Graduate Courses in Social History and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Literature, Department of Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest
2009-2012 Graduate Courses in Social History, Faculty of Sociology, Department Social Research, University of Bucharest
2007-2008 Undergraduate courses in History of Everyday Life and Modern History, Faculty of History, Department of Modern History, University of Iaşi
2005-2007 Graduate Courses in Cultural History, Faculty of Literature, Department of European Studies, University of Bucharest
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2022 – Co-convener “Réseaux et passeurs dans les Balkans”, Association française d’études sur les Balkans (AFEBalk), Marseille
2009 – present Co-organiser of the monthly research group “Political and Social History of the 18th and 19th centuries”, New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest
http://www.grips.nec.ro
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSABILITIES
2020 – current Member of the Scientific Research Council – Institute of History “ Nicolae Iorga”, Romanian Academy
2020 – current Member of the National Scientific Research Council – Humanities Commission – Minister of National Education and Scientific Research, Bucharest
2020 – present Member of National Council for Academic Position Attestation (CNATDCU) –Humanities Commission – Minister of National Education and Scientific Research, Bucharest
REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
2016 – present Evaluator (grants) for the Romanian National Council for Scientific Research
(UEFSCDI), Bucharest
2009 – Evaluator (scholarships, grants) for New Europe Collège, Bucharest, 2009, 2010, 2016,
2017, 2018, 2019; for program Braudel – MSH, Paris, 2011; for WIKO – Berlin, 2019.
2010 – Reviewer for The History of the Family, Annales de Demographie Historique, Revista
Istorică, ASPASIA, MARTOR, Acta Medico-Historica Adriatica, Prace Historyczne,
Genre&Histoire, Cromohs. Cyber Review of Modern Historiography. For the Publishing Houses:
INALCO, Peter Lang, Humanitas.
2005 – present Cultural Editorialist for the Cultural Journal Dilema Veche (www. dilemaveche.ro)
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIETIFIC SOCIETIES
2021 – present Member of the working group on Gender in Romanian Studies, Society for the Romanian Studies/ Indiana University
2018 – present Member, ACORSO – GIS. Appearances, Bodies & Societies, University Rennes 2 Home – Acorso GIS
2015-2016 Member of the Program Russia. The Rule of Law in Question. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
2007 – present Member, PATRINUS, CNRS, Paris/University Bocconi/Milano.
TEN REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Changing Subjects, Moving Objects. Status, Mobility, and Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe, 1700-1850, Brill, Leiden, 2022. Changing Subjects, Moving Objects – Status, Mobility, and Social
Transformation in Southeastern Europe, 1700–1850 | Brill
(ed. of ) Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th – 19thCenturies, Brill, Leiden, 2018 (ed. by). Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern
Europe, 17th – 19th Centuries | Brill
‘Legal Process and the Meanings of Justice (dreptate) in Eighteenth Century Romania’, Crime, Histoire & Sociétés/ Crime, History & Societies, 23, 2 (2019), 5–27.
‘Du zarif au galant. Modes et corps à l’âge des révolutions dans les pays roumains (1780-1830)’. Annales Historique de la Révolution Française, 3 (49) 2022, 145-168.
‘Shawls and Sable Furs: How to Be a Boyar under the Phanariot Regime (1710-1821)’, European History Yearbook, 20 (2019), 137-158.
‘I believe in stories’: The journey of a young boyar from Bucharest to Istanbul in the early nineteenth century’, Turcica, (50) 2019, 285-317.
‘A Wallachian Boyar in Emperor Joseph II’s Court’, Journal of Early Modern History, 2019, 341-362.
‘Le Coquin Grec’ vs. ‘le Véritable François’: Being a foreigner in the Danubian Principalities in the Eighteenth Century’, Cromohs (Cyber Review of Modern Historiography), 21/2017-2018, 91-105.
‘Marié à un « étranger », marié à l’étranger. Mobilité et statut social dans l’Europe du Sud-Est (1780-1830)’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique Moderne et Contemporain, 1, 2019 Marié à
un « étranger », marié à l’étranger (openedition.org)
‘Judicial archives and the history of the Romanian family: domestic conflict and the Orthodox Church in the eighteenth century’, The History of the Family, 2, 2013, 261-277.
RESEARCH MONOGRAPHS
Patimă şi desfătare. Despre lucrurile mărunte ale vieţii cotidiene în societatea românească(1750-1860), Bucureşti, Humanitas, 2015.
PRIZES/ AWARDS / ACADEMY MEMBERSHIPS
2016 – National Order of Faithful Service, rank Knight, awarded by Romanian Presidency