Ioan-Aurel Pop - Biography#
President of the Romanian Academy (since 2018), Ioan-Aurel Pop graduated from the "Babes-Bolyai" University, Faculty of History and Philosophy (Cluj-Napoca) in 1979, as valedictorian. As was customary in those days, Pop spent the next five years (1979-1984) teaching at high-school level in Cluj County, before returning to the university, as a teaching assistant (Chair of Medieval Studies). After 1989, following the successful presentation of his PhD thesis (irrespective of topic, theses were restricted to 250 pages in that age), Pop rose within a decade to university Professor and PhD supervisor. Before being twice elected rector of the "Babes-Bolyai" University (in 2012 and in 2016), he served as director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, the Romanian Institute of Cultural and Humanistic Research in Venice and of the Centre of Transylvanian Studies (of the Romanian Academy, since 2007). The latter two stations allowed Pop, a trained medievalist, to further develop his academic research in the archives and libraries of Italy (foremost in Venice, Rome and Milan) and Central Europe (chiefly in Budapest and Vienna). As a result, Pop has published and edited more than fifty books and volumes, has authored roughly two hundred articles and studies and published nearly a thousand documents (from the 1300s to the mid-1500s). These triggered Pop's election to academies and learned societies throughout Europe (from the Romanian Academy in Bucharest to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg or to the Ateneo Veneto in Venice).
WORK EXPERIENCE
- 04/2018 - present President, The Romanian Academy, (http://www.acad.ro
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- 2012 - 2020 Rector, Babeş-Bolyai University, (http://www.ubbcluj.ro)
- 1993 - 04/2018 Senior Researcher and Director, Centre for Transylvanian Studies within the Romanian Cultural Foundation (which later became the Romanian Cultural Institute), integrated in the Cluj-Napoca Branch of the Romanian Academy (http://www.centruldestudiitransilvane.ro
History of nationalities, history of medieval and early modern Transylvania, Medieval History of Romanians
Academic relations with similar institutions from the German-, French, and Italian-speaking countries
Administrative duties: responsibilities related to the office of director
- 1996 - Present University Professor, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University (http://hiphi.ubbcluj.ro)
Latin Paleography, history of Transylvania, Medieval History of the Romanians
Coordination of Ph.D.s in history (since 2000)
- 1984 - 1990 Teaching Assistant, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Seminars of Latin Paleography, history of Transylvania, Medieval History of the Romanians
- 1979 - 1984 Teacher, Industrial High School no. 6, Cluj-Napoca
Teaching history to high school students
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- 1984 - 1989 Ph.D. in history, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University (http://hiphi.ubbcluj.ro)
Medieval History
- 1974 - 1979 BA (valedictorian), Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Medieval History
Honours and awards
- Romanian Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Knight, awarded by the President of Romania (2010)
- Order of Honour awarded by the President of the Republic of Moldova (2010)
- “Transylvanian Cross” Medal awarded by the Metropolitan Church of Cluj, Maramureș and Sălaj (2014)
- Military Order of Romania in the rank of Commandor (2014)
- National Order of the ”Star of Romania” in the rank of Knight (2015)
- ”Șaguna Cross for laypersons” Medal awarded by the Metropolitan Church of Ardeal (2015)
- Diploma for ”Academic Merit” awarded by the Romanian Academy (2015)
- ”Northern Cross for laypersons” Medal awarded by the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Northern Europe (2016)
- ”Palmes Académiques” Order in the rank of Knight awarded by the French Republic (2016)
- ”Star of Italy” Order in the rank of Commandor awarded by the Italian Republic (2016)
Awards
- "George Barițiu" Award of the Romanian Academy (1991)
- Prize for Excellence from the “Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi" Institute of Romanians from Everywhere (2011)
- Media Prize for Excellence from the “Gazeta de Cluj" newspaper (2011)
- "Nicolae Iorga” Award from the Cultural Foundation Magazin Istoric (2017)
- "George Apostu" Great Award (2017)
- Prize for Media Excellence 2017, from "Făclia" newspaper (2017)
- Citizen of Honour of Gherla, Cluj County (2017)
- Great Award of the "George Pop de Băsești" Festival of Literature and History Colloquies (2017)
DIRECTOR OF CULTURAL CENTRES
- Director of the Romanian Cultural Center in New York (1994-1995)
- Director of the Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice (2003 - 2007)
VISITING PROFESSOR
- Visiting professor (Fulbright) at the University Pittsburgh, PA, USA (1991 - 1992)
- Visiting professor at INALCO din Paris (1998)
- Visiting professor at the University of Trento (2001 - 2003)
- Visiting professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2003 - 2008)
DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA
Doctor Honoris Causa of the Alba Iulia, Timişoara, Oradea, Cahul, and Galaţi Universities, of the ”Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, of the State University in Chișinău, of the ”Ion Creangă” Pedagogical University of Chişinău, and of the ”Petru Maior” University of Târgu Mureş.
Memberships - Member of national and international institutions
- Member of the Commission for the History of International Relations within the International Committee for Historical Sciences (Milan), since 1990
- Corresponding member of the Academy for Sciences, Letters and Arts (Paris), since 1999
- Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy (2001 - 2010), full Member of the Romanian Academy as of 2010, and President of the Romanian Academy since 2018
- Member of the Institute for Central European Cultural Encounters (Gorizia), since 2005
- Member of the Ateneo Veneto (Venice), since 2005
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute for Research in Social and Religious History (Vicenza, Italy), since 2006
- Member of the European Academy for Sciences and Arts (Salzburg, Austria), since 2013
- Member of the International and Adult Continuing Education (IACE) Hall of Fame (SUA), since 2013
- Member of the Central European College for the Study of Ethnical Problems within the Romanian Academy, since 2013
- Honorary Member of the Academy of Science of Moldavia, since 2015
- Full Member of the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana (Mantova, Italy), since 2015
- Full Member (entitled to vote) of the Monitoring Committee of the 2014 - 2020 Regional Operational Programme, since 2015
Editorial Boards
- Director of the “Transylvanian Review” of the Centre for Transylvanian Studies within the Romanian Academy (ISI), since 1994
- Member of the editorial board of “Promemoria”— the journal of the Institute of Oral History
- President of the editorial board of the journal “Articles. Creative Research and Art”, Haifa, Israel
- Member of the editorial board of “Revista de Politica Ştiinţei şi Scientometrie”
- Member of the scientific board of “Magazin istoric”
- Member of the editorial board of the journal “Memoriile Secţiei de Ştiinţe Istorice şi Arheologie”
- Member of the scientific board of the journal “Analele Universităţii “Ovidius” din Constanţa – Seria Istorie”
- Member of the editorial board of the “Academica” Review of the Romanian Academy
- Member of the editorial board of the “Zagreb” Review
- Member of the honorary scientific board of the collection “Corpus membranarum Capuanarum”, published by Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane and Edizioni Palladio
- Member of the honorary permanent board of the Annals of the Romanian Institute of Culture and Humanistic Research – Venice
- Member of the scientific board of the Annual published by the Archives in Mureș
- Member of the editorial board of the “Akademos” journal
- Member of the editorial board of the “Banatica” review
- Member of the editorial board of the "Acta Musei Napocensis" review, no. 52/11/2015
