Profile
PD Dr. Mihai Olaru is Marie Curie Individual Researcher at the University of Regensburg (starting date: April 2021) and Assistant researcher at The Institute of History “George Bariţiu”, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca (starting date: February 2019, currently on leave).
Main Research Areas
- early-modern state formation, clientelism, informality and corruption, history of historiography
Fellowships (selected)
- October 2015-July 2016: Postdoctoral Fellowship: New Europe College (NEC), Bucharest
- October 2014-February 2015: Research Fellowship: Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Sofia
Publications (selected)
2020, “Abuzul de putere în administraţia Ţării Româneşti: un caz de la sfârşitul secolului al XVII-lea.” [Abuse of Authority in the Wallachian Administration: a case from the End of the 17th Century], Istoria şi scrisul istoric azi. Opţiuni metodologice. Paradigmă. Agendă, eds. Susana Andea, Ela Cosma, Iosif Marin Balog, Atilla Varga, Cluj-Napoca.
2019, „Condicile și administrarea justiției în Țara Românească în secolul al XVIII-lea” [Registers and Justice Administration in Eighteenth Century Wallachia]. Anuarul Institutului de Istorie „George Bariţiu”, Series Historica.
2019, „Accepţiunile termenului de registrum în Transilvania secolului al XIV-lea” [The Meaning of the Term registrum in Fourteenth Century Transylvania], in Anuarul Institutului de Istorie „George Bariţiu”, Series Historica.