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Judit PÁL, PhD, is a Historian, professor at Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj (Romania), Faculty of History and Philosophy, and in the framework of the grant “Social mobility of elites in the Central European regions (1861-1926) and transition of imperial experience and structures in nation-states” (EXPRO 2020 No. 20-19463X) researcher at Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague). She specializes in elite research, social and political history of the Habsburg Monarchy, with particular emphasis on the history of 18th and 19th century Hungary and Transylvania, in urban history, and in the history of Armenians.
She is a member of the following editorial boards: Historický časopis (Bratislava, Slovakia); Századok; Urbs. Várostörténeti Évkönyv; Historical Studies on Central Europe (Budapest), Library of “Lehahayer” (Cracow), and Historia Urbana (Sibiu, Romania). She was member of several grants in Romania, Hungary, Germany and the Czech Republic, and principal investigator of “The Political Elite from Transylvania (1867-1918)”, Romanian National Council for Scientific Research (UEFSCDI, PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0040) (2011-2016), and of “Change and continuity: the public administration and the civil servants` corps from Transylvania before and after the First World War (1910-1925)”, Romanian National Council for Scientific Research (UEFSCDI, PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0390) (2017-2020).
In this project, Judit Pál focuses on the social, political, and administrative transformation of the patron-client relations, patronage, and nepotism in Transylvania.
Email: pal.judit@ubbcluj.ro
Selected Publications:
András Vári, Judit Pál, Stefan Brakensiek: Herrschaft an der Gränze. Mikrogeschichte der Macht im östlichen Ungarn im 18. Jahrhundert. Köln – Weimar – Wien, Böhlau, 2014. (Adelswelten, 2.).
Der Preis der Freiheit. Die freie königliche Stadt Szatmátnémeti am Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts. In: Stefan Brakensiek–Heide Wunder (Hrsg.): Ergebene Diener ihrer Herren? Herrschaftsvermittlung im alten Europa. Köln–Weimar–Wien, Böhlau, 2005. 123–143.
The Local Exercise of Power in Sătmar County at the Beginning of the 18th Century. Transylvanian Review, vol. XXI, Supplement no. 2. (2012) Institutional Structures and Elites in Sălaj Region and Transylvania in the 14th–18th Centuries. Ed. András W. Kovács. 237−251.
Electoral Corruption in Austro-Hungarian Transylvania at the Beginning of the Dualist Period (1867-1872). In: Frédéric Monier, Olivier Dard, Jens Ivo Engels (eds.): Patronage et corruption politiques dans l’Europe contemporaine. 2. Les coulisses du politique à l’époque contemporaine XIXe-XXe siècles. Paris, Armand Colin, 2014. 107−126.
Staatsbeamter oder Klient? Ein „Vermittler” aus Ostungarn zwischen verschiedenen sozialen Normen. In: Karl-Peter Krauss (Hg.): Normsetzung und Normverletzung. AlltäglicheLebenswelten im Königreich Ungarn vom 18. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2014. 125−142. (Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Bd. 19.)