About
the Author
Dr. Victor Neumann is Professor of History of Modern and Contemporary Europe and of
History of Political Thought in Central and Eastern Europe at the West
University of Timişoara, Romania. He is also Director of the Institute for
Liberal Studies -- Timişoara (Romania). His main research interests are in
Romanian and East-Central European intellectual history, majority-minorities
relations in Romania and interculturality and multiculturality.
He
was counselor for minority issues in the Romanian Government – Ministry of
Culture (1990-1992), senior researcher at the Institute of Social Theory in
Bucharest affiliated with the Romanian Academy (1992-1994), Director of the
Intercultural Institute of Timişoara (1994-1996), set up by the Council of
Europe and visiting professor in France and the U.S.A.
His
international experience also includes lectures, presentations and research
conducted in the U.S.A., United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Israel, The
Netherlands, Poland and Hungary. He was fellow of the Central European
University (Hungary); Hebrew University (Israel); IREX (USA); the Netherlands
Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar; Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bonn
(Germany); Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Germany); Institute for East and
Southeastern European Studies – University of Vienna (Austria); Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - Paris (France); Maison des Sciences de
l’Homme – Paris (France). For 1995-1997 he was awarded a NATO Individual
Research Fellowship. The first edition of his book, Tenţatia
lui Homo Europaeus. Geneza ideilor moderne in Europa Centrală şi de
Sud-Est [The Temptation of Homo Europaeus. The Genesis of Modern Ideas in
Central and Southeastern Europe] (Bucharest: Stiintifica, ) was awarded the
“A.D. Xenopol” Prize of the Romanian Academy.
His
main publications include: The Tempation
of Homo Europaeus (Boulder, Colorado; New
York: Columbia University Press, 1993); Istoria
evreilor din România. Studii documentare şi teoretice [History of the
Jews of Romania. Documentary Studies and Theoretical Surveys] (Timişoara:
Amarcord, 1996); Identités multiples dans
l’Europe des regions. L’interculturalité du Banat (Timişoara:
Hestia, 1997); Istoria evreilor din Banat.
O mărturie a multi şi interculturalitătii Europei Oriental-Centrale
[History of the Jews of the Banat County. A Testimony of Multi- and
Interculturality in East-Central Europe] (Bucharest: Atlas-Du Stylle, 1999); Ideologie
şi fantasmagorie. Perspective comparative asupra istoriei gîndirii
politice în Europa Est-Centrală [Ideology and Phantasmagoria.
Comparative Perspectives on the History of Political Thought in East-Central
Europe] (Iaşi: Polirom, 2001); “National Political Cultures and Regime
Changes in Eastern and Central Europe” in The
History of Political Thought in National Context, Edited by Dario
Castiglione and Iain Hampsher-Monk (Cambridge
University Press, 2001).
From
September 200 through September 2001 he was visiting Fulbright scholar
affiliated with the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.