Elena Crinela Holom

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0460-9131

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pGorhBkAAAAJ&hl=en

Projects coordinated (Project Director)

• 2018–2019 –Granturi pentru susținerea cercetării de excelență [Grants for Supporting Research Excellence], AGC 35912/23.11.2018, 11.12.2018–10.12.2019, project director, CS II dr. Elena-Crinela Holom.
• 2014–2015 – Familii și gospodării la românii din Transilvania (începutul secolului XX) [Families and Households among Romanians in Transylvania (Early 20th Century)], postdoctoral project funded through POSDRU/159/1.5/S/132400 – “Successful Young Researchers – Professional Development in an Interdisciplinary and International Context”, POSDRU postdoctoral fellow.
• 2013–2014 –Căsătorie şi aspecte privind compoziţia grupului domestic românesc din Transilvania între a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea şi prima jumătate a secolului al XX-lea [Marriage and Aspects Concerning the Composition of the Romanian Domestic Group in Transylvania between the Second Half of the 19th Century and the First Half of the 20th Century], Grant GTC 34039/2013, 01.11.2013–31.10.2014, project director, CS III dr. Elena-Crinela Holom.
• 2010–2012 –Între trecut şi prezent. Clopotele în viaţa comunităţilor româneşti din Transilvania (secolele XIX–XXI),  [Between Past and Present. Bells in the Life of Romanian Communities in Transylvania (19th–21st Centuries)], CNCSIS postdoctoral project, code 401/2010, project director, CS III dr. Elena-Crinela Holom.
• 2008–2010 – Comportament demografic, relaţii familiale interetnice şi interconfesionale în satele din actualul judeţ Alba între 1850 şi 1910 [Demographic Behaviour and Interethnic and Interconfessional Family Relations in the Villages of the Present-Day Alba County between 1850 and 1910], CNCSIS Grant, TD type, no. 218, project director, PhD candidate Elena-Crinela Holom.

Member of research teams in international and national projects

• 2025–2027 – De la registre parohiale la infrastructuri digitale: adaptarea soluțiilor tip HTR pentru transcrierea automată a documentelor vechi de stare civilă [From Parish Registers to Digital Infrastructures: Adapting HTR-Type Solutions for the Automatic Transcription of Civil Status Registers], Exploratory Research Project (PCE), project number PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-0339, project director CS I dr. hab. Luminița Dumănescu.
• 2023–2027 – The Great Leap. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Health Inequalities, 1800–2022, European COST Action CA22116, funded by the European Union, Action Chair: Tim Riswick.
• 2022–2024 – The Family as a Source of Knowledge about Historical Poznań (NdS/529068/2021/2021), Ministry of Science and Education, “Science for Society” programme, Poland, Principal Investigator: dr. hab. Grażyna Liczbińska.
• 2022–2024 – Cholera Epidemic in 1866 as a Turning Point in the History of Poznań, Knowledge about Historical Poznań, Ministry of Science and Education, Poland, Principal Investigator: dr. hab. Grażyna Liczbińska.
• 2014–2017 – Historical Population Database of Transylvania, EEA Grants, project director prof. dr. Ioan Bolovan.
• 2008–2010 – Familia românească din Transilvania între constrângerile bisericii şi cele ale statului. De la tradiţie spre modernizare (1850–1900) [The Romanian Family in Transylvania between Church and State Constraints. From Tradition to Modernisation (1850–1900)], Grant ID_487, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, project director prof. dr. Ioan Bolovan.
• 2009–2010 – Epidemiile de holeră din Transilvania din secolul al XIX-lea. Impact demografic şi mental [Epidemics of Cholera in 19th-Century Transylvania. Demographic and Mental Impact], Grant ID_2093, “Aurel Vlaicu” University, Arad, project director prof. dr. Corneliu Pădurean.
• 2006–2009 – Geneza identitătilor moderne în Europa Centrală [The Genesis of Modern Identities in Central Europe], CNCSIS, Type A, Modern History, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, project director prof. dr. Sorin Mitu.
• 2006–2009 – Geografia simbolică a Europei moderne în context mondial [The Symbolic Geography of Modern Europe in a Global Context], CEEX, Modern History, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, project director prof. dr. Sorin Mitu.

Publications

Articles: 

Holom, E.C., & Hărăguş, M. (2025). A Detailed Individual-Level Analysis of Tuberculosis-Related Deaths Among Adults. Historical Life Course Studies 15: 175-185. https://doi.org/10.51964/hlcs23064

Holom, E.C., & Hărăguş, M. (2025). The social, economic, and environmental unequal impact of cholera on deaths: an analysis of the 1872–1873 epidemic in Transylvania. The History of the Family. https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2025.2493654

Holom, E.C. (2025) “The Cholera Epidemic in Transylvania, 1872–1873: A Case Study of Alba de Jos County”. In Liczbińska G., Vögele J. P., Riswick T. (eds.). Towards the Elimination of Cholera Epidemics: From the Past to Contemporary Societies. Warszawa: Oficyna Wydawnicza: Mówią Wieki, pp. 91-112.  ISBN: 978-83-86156-56-6.

Dumănescu, L., Hărăguș, M., Lumezeanu, A., Holom, E. C., Hegedus, N., Mârza, D., Covaci, D., & Bolovan, I. (2022). Historical Population Database of Transylvania. Sources, Particularities, Challenges, and Early Findings. Historical Life Course Studies 12: 133–150. https://doi.org/10.51964/hlcs12038

 Holom, E. C., Hegedűs, N. (2022). A Proposal for Reclassifying Causes of Death in Transylvania (1850–1920): The HCDT System, Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski/Poland’s Demographic Past 44: 7-28. https://doi.org/10.18276/pdp.2022.44-01

Holom, E. C., Lumezeanu, A. (2022). The Victims of the “Great War” in Transylvania: Recovering the Sources and Designing a Database of Invalids, Orphans, and War Widows, Studia Historiae Oeconomicae 40(1):  97-122. https://doi.org/10.14746/sho.2022.40.1.006

Holom, E. C., Hegedűs, N., Bolovan, I. (2021). Quantitative Perspective on Violent Deaths in Transylvania between the Mid-19th Century and the End of the First World War Tentative Findings, Transylvanian Review 30(1): 48-64.

Holom, E. C., (2021). “Children of the Nation”. An Overview of Aid and Benefits Paid to WWI Orphans as Reflected in Data from the Official Gazette of the Kingdom of Romania (1918-1939), Romanian Journal of Population Studies 15(2): 115-137. https://doi.org/10.24193/RJPS.2021.2.05

Holom, E. C., (2021). “Recovering the Wounds of War”: Transylvanian Soldiers and their Families during and After the First World War”. Transylvanian Review, 19(1): 18-31.

Bolovan, I., Crăciun, B., Covaci, D., Dumănescu, L., Holom, E. C., Mârza, D., Lumezeanu, A.C. (2019). Historical Population Database of Transylvania. A Database Manual. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Digitalia, 64(1): 9-84. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbdigitalia.2019.1.1

Holom, E.C, Sorescu, O., Hărăguș, M. (2018). Beyond the Visible Pattern: Historical Particularities, Development, and Age at First Marriage in Transylvania, 1850–1914, History of the Family 23(2): 329-358 . https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2018.1433702.

Holom, E. C., (2016). Romanian Families and Households in Northeastern Transylvania: Early 20th Century. Transylvanian Review 25(4): 91-102.

Bolovan, I., Holom, E. C., Eppel, M. (2016). Ethnicity and Politics: Censuses in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Case Study: Transylvania, 1869-1910), Romanian Journal of Population Studies 10(2): 137-152.

Holom, E.C. (2015). Households and Families in a Romanian Village from Transylvania during the Second Half of the 19th Century, Südost-Forschungen 74(1): 26-43. https://doi.org/10.1515/sofo-2015-0105

Crăciun, B., Holom, E.C, Popovici, V. (2015). Historical Population Database of Transylvania: Methodology Employed in the Selection of Settlements and Micro Zones of Interest. Romanian Journal of Population Studies 9(2): 17-30.

Holom, E.C (2014). Characteristics of the Romanian household in Transylvania between the second half of the 19th Century and the first quarter of the 20th Century. A case study. Romanian Journal of Population Studies 3(1): 88-116.

Holom, E.C, (2013). The Romanian Transylvanian Bells and Their Cultural, Artistic and Historical Significance (19th -20th Centuries). European Journal of Science and Theology 9 (2): 51-56.

Holom, E.C. (2012). Campanile Epigraphy. A Study of Bells and Their Inscriptions in the Romanian Communities in Transylvania (19th-20th Centuries), Transylvanian Review 17(4): 43-50.

Holom, E.C. (2012). What Bells Can Tell Us? The Romanian Bells from Transylvania and their Interesting Stories (19th -20th Centuries) . Transylvanian Review. Supplement 21(3): 371-381.

Holom, E.C. (2012). They Took Them to Cast Guns Out of Them! Attitudes and Perceptions related to the Bells Requisition in the Collective Transylvanian Mind (19th and 20th Centuries). International Journal of Multidisciplinary Thoughts 2(1): 313-317.

Holom, E.C. (2011). The Bell Procurement Process in the Romanian Communities in Transylvania 19th and 21th Centuries. European Journal of Science and Theology 7(4): 93-102.

Holom, E.C. (2011). Between the Sound of Labour and the Sound of Bells: Sacred Time, Secular Time, Life Style, Practices and Behaviours in the Daily Writings of a Transylvanian Clerk from the End of the 19th Century. Transylvanian Review. Supplement 20(4): 331-342.

Holom, E.C. (2010). The Bells and the “Great War”, or about the Action of the Requisition of Bells Belonging to the Romanian Transylvanian Community. Transylvanian Review. Supplement 19(5): 175–186.

Holom, E.C. (2010). Clopotele româneşti transilvănene şi inscripţiile lor: funcţii, semnificaţii, simbolistică [The Romanian Transylvanian Bells and Their Inscriptions: Functions, Meanings, and Symbolism] / The Romanian Bells from Transylvania and Their Imprints: Function, Significance, Meaning. Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Theologia Orthodoxa 55(2): 119–125.

Holom, E.C. (2010). Destine individuale, destine familiale într-un sat din Transilvania (secolele XIX–XX) [Individual Destinies and Family Destinies in a Transylvanian Village (19th–20th Centuries)]. În căutarea fericirii. Viaţa familială în spaţiul românesc în sec. XVIII–XX [In Search of Happiness. Family Life in the Romanian Space, 18th–20th Centuries]. Supplement of Romanian Journal of Population Studies: 255–274.

Holom, E.C. (2009). Drama, Suffering and Sorrow. The Problems of the Eightieth Decade of the 19th Century in the Former County of Alba de Jos. Demographic Impact. Romanian Journal of Population Studies 3(2): 96–110.

Holom, E.C. (2008). La fonction identitaire des cloches: un modèle de sensibilité collective dans le monde rural roumain moderne et contemporain [The Identity Function of Bells: A Model of Collective Sensibility in the Modern and Contemporary Romanian Rural World]. Transylvanian Review 17(2): 81–92.

Chapters:

Holom, E. C., Hegedűs, N., Bolovan, I. (2022). Perspectivă cantitativă asupra deceselor violente din Transilvania între mijlocul secolului al XIX-lea și sfârșitul Primului Război Mondial: rezultate preliminare [Quantitative Perspective on Violent Deaths in Transylvania between the Mid-19th Century and the End of the First World War: Preliminary Results]. In Șipoș, S., Moisa, G., Cepraga, D. O., Ardelean, L. (eds.), Teme și metode de cercetare în istorie și filologie [Themes and Methods of Research in History and Philology]. Editrice Criterion / Milano, Editura Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane / Cluj-Napoca, pp. 245–259.

Holom, E. C. (2022). „Recuperarea rănilor de război”: soldații transilvăneni și familiile lor în timpul și după Primul Război Mondial [“Recovering the Wounds of War”: Transylvanian Soldiers and Their Families during and after the First World War]. In Bolovan, I., Sinaci, D. (eds.), Societate, cultură, demografie, Omagiu profesorului Corneliu Pădurean la împlinirea vârstei de 70 de ani [Society, Culture, Demography. Festschrift in Honour of Professor Corneliu Pădurean on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday], Cluj-Napoca, Academia Română, Centrul de Studii Transilvane, pp. 83–98.

Bolovan, I., Holom, E. C., Eppel, M. (2016). Politică și naționalitate: recensământurile din Imperiul Austro-Ungar (studiu de caz Transilvania, 1869–1910) [Politics and Nationality: Censuses in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Case Study: Transylvania, 1869–1910)]. In Orizonturi medievale și moderne în istoria românilor. Economie, societate, politică, cultură, istoria științei [Medieval and Modern Horizons in Romanian History. Economy, Society, Politics, Culture, History of Science]. Chișinău, Biblioteca Științifică Centrală, Secția editorial-poligrafică, pp. 53–64.

Holom, E. C. (2016). Transformări în structura ocupațională și mobilitate socială în Transilvania (1850–1918) [Transformations in Occupational Structure and Social Mobility in Transylvania (1850–1918)]. In Balog, I. M., Gräf, R., Lumperdean, I. (eds.), Fenomene economice și financiare în spațiul românesc în secolele XIX–XX. Studii de economie regional [Economic and Financial Phenomena in the Romanian Space in the 19th–20th Centuries. Studies in Regional Economy], Cluj-Napoca, Presa Universitară Clujeană, pp. 89–112.

Holom, E. C., Crăciun, B. (2015). Invalizi, orfani și văduve: consecințe sociale ale „Marelui Război” în Transilvania. Studiu de caz[Invalids, Orphans, and Widows: Social Consequences of the “Great War” in Transylvania. A Case Study]. In Bolovan, I., Cojocaru, G., Tămaș, O. M. (eds.), Primul Război Mondial – Perspectivă istorică şi istoriografică / The First World War in Historical and Historiographical Perspective, Cluj-Napoca, Presa Universitară Clujeană / Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane, pp. 559–568.

Holom, E. C. (2011). Între trecut şi prezent. Tehnica tragerii clopotelor şi influența ei asupra oamenilor din Transilvania (sec. XIX–XXI) [Between Past and Present. Bell-Ringing Techniques and Their Influence on People in Transylvania (19th–21st Centuries)]. In Ionel, I., Fleșer, T., Vetreș, I. (eds.), The 35th Annual Congress of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences – ARA 35: Science & Art in the Informatics Era, Proceedings. Montreal, Quebec: Presses Internationale Politehnique, pp. 40–43.

Holom, E. C. (2012). Sunet, simbolism, semnificaţii, sau despre clopote în spaţiul european. Repere istoriografice [Sound, Symbolism, and Meaning, or About Bells in the European Space. Historiographical Landmarks]. In Balog, I. M., Sima, A. V., Cârja, I. (eds.), Specific românesc şi confluenţe central-europene. Omagiu Profesorului Teodor Pavel la împlinirea vârstei de 70 de ani [Romanian Specificity and Central-European Confluences. Festschrift for Professor Teodor Pavel on His 70th Birthday], Cluj-Napoca, Presa Universitară Clujeană, pp. 345–350.

Holom, E. C. (2010). Unele aspecte privind problema disoluţiei cuplului în comunităţile româneşti greco-catolice din zona Albei (1886–1910) [Some Aspects Concerning Couple Dissolution in Romanian Greek-Catholic Communities from the Alba Area (1886–1910)]. In Pădurean, C., Bolovan, I. (eds.), Studii de demografie istorică (secolele XVII–XXI) [Studies in Historical Demography (17th–21st Centuries)], Arad, Editura Gutenberg Univers, pp. 131–136.

Deteșan, D., Covaci, D., Holom, E. C. (2009). Laic laws governing the Romanian families in Transylvania in the second half of the 19th century. In Fauve-Chamoux, A., Bolovan, I. (eds.), Families in Europe between the 19th and 21st Centuries. From the Traditional Model to the Contemporary PACS, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj University Press, pp. 575–591.

Holom, E. C. (2008). Consideraţii statistico-demografice privind fenomenul natalităţii la populaţia din trecutul Albei între 1866 şi 1910[Statistical-Demographic Considerations on the Birth Rate among the Population of Historical Alba between 1866 and 1910]. In Bolovan, I., Mureşan, C., Hărăguş, M. (eds.), Perspective demografice, istorice şi sociologice. Studii de populaţie [Demographic, Historical and Sociological Perspectives. Population Studies], Cluj-Napoca, Presa Universitară Clujeană, pp. 15–37.

Holom, E. C. (2007). Comportamentul formativ şi disolutiv al cuplurilor din zona Albei la sfârşitul secolului al XIX-lea [Formative and Dissolutive Behaviour of Couples in the Alba Area at the End of the 19th Century]. In Bolovan, S. P., Bolovan, I., Pădurean, C. (eds.), Om şi societate. Studii de istoria populaţiei României (secolele XVII–XXI) [Man and Society. Studies in the History of Romania’s Population (17th–21st Centuries)], Cluj-Napoca, Presa Universitară Clujeană, pp. 187–206.

Holom, E. C. (2005). Mariajul în satul românesc transilvănean din protopopiatul greco-catolic al Câţcăului în a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea. Studiu de caz: impedimente la căsătorie[Marriage in the Transylvanian Romanian Village of the Greek-Catholic Deanery of Câţcău in the Second Half of the 19th Century. Case Study: Impediments to Marriage]. In Pădurean, C., Bolovan, I. (eds.), Căsătorii mixte în Transilvania. Secolul al XIX-lea şi începutul secolului XX [Mixed Marriages in Transylvania. The 19th Century and the Early 20th Century], Arad, Editura Universităţii „Aurel Vlaicu”, pp. 237–258.

Holom, E. C. (2005). Realităţi demografice în parohia greco-catolică Urca (jud. Cluj) în a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea [Demographic Realities in the Greek-Catholic Parish of Urca (Cluj County) in the Second Half of the 19th Century]. In Bolovan, S. P., Bolovan, I., Pădurean, C. (eds.), Transilvania în secolele XIX–XX. Studii de demografie istorică [Transylvania in the 19th–20th Centuries. Studies in Historical Demography], Cluj-Napoca, Presa Universitară Clujeană, pp. 297–325.

Books (author/co-author/editor):

Holom, E. C. (2009). Individ, familie, comunitate. Comportament demografic, relaţii familiale interetnice şi interconfesionale în satele din trecutul Albei (1850–1910) [Individual, Family, Community. Demographic Behaviour and Interethnic and Interconfessional Family Relations in the Villages of Historical Alba (1850–1910)]. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Mega.

Bolovan, I., Covaci, D., Deteşan, D., Eppel, M., Holom, E. C. (Eds.) (2010). Ciclul vieţii familiale la românii din Transilvania în a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea şi începutul secolului XX [The Family Life Cycle among Romanians in Transylvania in the Second Half of the 19th Century and the Early 20th Century]. Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană.

Bolovan, I., Covaci, D., Deteşan, D., Eppel, M., Holom, E. C. (Eds.) (2010). În căutarea fericirii. Viaţa familială în spaţiul românesc în sec. XVIII–XX [In Search of Happiness. Family Life in the Romanian Space, 18th–20th Centuries] (Supplement of Romanian Journal of Population Studies). Cluj-Napoca: Editura Presa Universitară Clujeană.

Bolovan, I., Covaci, D., Deteşan, D., Eppel, M., Holom, E. C. (Eds.) (2009). Legislaţia ecleziastică şi laică privind familia românească din Transilvania în a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea [The Ecclesiastical and Secular Legislation Concerning Transylvanian Romanian Families in the Second Half of the 19th Century]. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Presa Universitară Clujeană.