Oana Sorescu-Iudean

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4472-4396

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

Projects led as project director / fellowships:

2023-2024 – Housing and the housing space in urban Transylvania (18th–19th centuries), Seed grant project, awarded by the University of Regensburg within SeeFfield.

2023 – Mapping the plague of 1738–1739 in Sibiu. Mortality and socio-economic changes, Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by Babeș-Bolyai University within the “STAR-UBB excellence in research network” Program, project ID 21 PFE/30.12.2021, PFE-550-UBB.

Member of research teams for international projects:

Postdoctoral researcher in TransCorr – Transnational histories of ‘corruption’ in Central-South-East Europe (1750-1850), Advanced ERC Grant, within the New Europe College.

Co-lead of Working Group 3 of COST Action 22159 – National, International and Transnational Histories of Healthcare, 1850-2000.

Collaborator in the project Frühneuzeitlicher Orienthandel und siebenbürgisch-sächsische Identitätsbildung. Die osmanischen Teppiche der evangelischen Stadtpfarrkirche in Bistritz/Bistriţa (Rumänien) im Germanischen Nationalmuseum, funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

Member of research teams for national projects:

2025 – 2028 – From parish registers to digital infrastructures: adapting HTR-type solutions for the automatic transcription of old civil status documents, Exploratory research project (PCE) UEFISCDI, PN-IV-P1-PCE-2023-0339.

2020 – 2022 – Raising the nation: Institutional and informal initiatives for the welfare of orphans in Transylvania during the Dualist period, Young Teams project (TE) UEFISCDI, PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-0472.

2018 – 2020 – Romanian officers in the Habsburg army and their involvement in civil society (from the late 18th century to 1918), Young Teams project (TE) UEFISCDI, PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0432.

2018-2019 – Socio-professional trajectories in competing confessional spaces: Transylvania (1850-1918), Exploratory research project (PCE) UEFISCDI, PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0661.

2015 – 2017: Rhythms and patterns: the quantitative dimension of family life in Transylvania, 1850-1918, Young Teams project (TE) UEFISCDI, PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2208.

Publications (selection):

Datasets:

Oana Sorescu-Iudean, Standardized datasets from the “Protocol of Plague Deaths” from Hermannstadt/Sibiu, 1738-1739, [Data set]. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/records/17016316, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17016316

Articles:

Oana Sorescu-Iudean (2025). “Urban Governance and Battling the ‘Evil of Contagion’: Measures Against the 1738–1739 Plague in Sibiu/Hermannstadt”, Transylvanian Review, Vol. XXXIV, Supplement No. 2, p. 109-120.

Oana Sorescu-Iudean, Luminița Dumănescu (2025). “A Series of Standardized Datasets of the ‘Protocol of Plague Deaths’ from Hermannstadt, 1738-1739”, Romanian Journal of Population Studies, Vol. XIX, Issue 1, p. 5-20. https://doi.org/10.24193/RJPS.2025.1.01

Oana Sorescu-Iudean (2025), “Bearing the costs of epidemics: remaining households in Hermannstadt/Sibiu during the 1719–1720 and 1738–1739 plague outbreaks”, The History of the Family, Volume 30, 2025 – Issue 3: Household Family and the Community Response to the Direct Costs of Epidemics, pp. 442–467. https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2025.2541101

Oana Sorescu-Iudean (2022), “Patterns in the Timing of Widows’ Remarriage in an 18th-Century Transylvanian City”, Romanian Journal of Population Studies, vol. XVI, Issue 2, 2022, p. 9-26. https://doi.org/10.24193/RJPS.2022.2.01

Oana Sorescu-Iudean (2021), “The Cause of the Fatherless: Spiritual and Material Guardianship in Eighteenth Century Transylvania”, Romanian Journal of Population Studies, Vol. XV, Issue 2, 2021, p. 5-38. https://doi.org/10.24193/RJPS.2021.2.01

Marius Eppel, Oana Sorescu-Iudean (2019), “Dukhovenstvo pravoslavnoi i greko-katolicheskoi tserkvei Transil’vanii: opyt sozdaniia bazy dannykh” [The Clergy of the Orthodox and Greek Catholic Churches of Transylvania: An Attempt at Building a Database], in Izvestia. Ural Federal University Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 138-151. DOI: 10.15826/izv2.2019.21.3.052.

Elena Crinela Holom, Oana Sorescu-Iudean, Mihaela Harăguș (2018), “Beyond the Visible Pattern: Historical Particularities, Development, and Age at First Marriage in Transylvania, 1850–1914”, The History of the Family, Vol. 23, Issue 2, p. 329-358. https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2018.1433702

Oana Sorescu-Iudean (2017), “The permeability of borders: drafting Romanian last wills in the seat of Sibiu during the eighteenth century”, Banatica, p. 463–484. ISSN: 1222-0612, https://www.banatica.ro/media/b27/463-484.pdf

Chapters in volumes:

Oana Sorescu-Iudean (2025), “Keeping the City Alive: Managing Public Health Crises in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century in Sibiu”, in Maria Pákucs, Julia Derzsi (eds.), Towns between Empires: Good Governance and “Police” in Case Studies from Transylvania, Wallachia, and Moldavia, 1500s–1800s, CEU Press, p. 227-246. https://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789633869000_ch11

Oana Sorescu-Iudean, Vlad Popovici (2023). “Patterns of Romanian Women’s Civil and Political Engagement in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth Century Transylvania and Hungary”, in Marta Verginella (ed.), Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848-1918, Purdue University Press, p. 65-86.

Stephanie Armer, Oana Sorescu-Iudean (2023). “»Mit tepichtenn geziret«. Anatolian carpets as trade goods and objects of representation in Transylvania”, in Kregeloh, Anja (ed.): Anatolian Carpets from Bistritz/Bistrița: The Collection of the Evangelical Parish Church A. B. in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, p. 30-52. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1194.c16515

Judit Pál, Vlad Popovici, Oana Sorescu-Iudean (2022), “Elites and Groups in East-Central and South-East-Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century. Foreword from the Editors”, in Judit Pál, Vlad Popovici, and Oana Sorescu-Iudean (eds.), Elites, Groups, and Networks in East-Central and South-East Europe in the Long 19th Century, Brill | Schöningh, p. 1-27. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657795215_002

Edited volumes and special issues:

Oana Sorescu-Iudean (ed.), Epidemics, healthcare systems, and healthcare actors in Romanian-speaking areas between the 18th and 20th centuries. Reassessing the field, special issue Romanian Journal of Population Studies, vol. XVIII, no. 2/2024.

Judit Pál, Vlad Popovici, Oana Sorescu-Iudean (eds.), Elites, Groups, and Networks in East-Central and South-East Europe in the Long 19th Century, Brill | Schöningh, 2022.

Oana Sorescu-Iudean, Luminița Dumănescu, Ovidiu Emil Iudean (eds.), Orphans and Orphanhood in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe (18th–20th Century), special issue of Romanian Journal of Population Studies (Issue XV, 1/2021 and 2/2021).