Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković is a research fellow at the Institute for Balkan Studies in Belgrade (Serbia). She received her BA and MA at the Philology Faculty of the West University of Timişoara (Romania), and her PhD at the “Babeş-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca (Romania), with a thesis on Vlachs of Eastern Serbia. Her areas of interest are the folklore, language and identity of Romanian-speaking communities in the Balkans. She is the author of the monograph Românii din Timoc astăzi. Fiinţe mitologice (The Vlachs of Eastern Serbia today. Mythological beings, 2012), the co-author of the album Românii de lângă noi(The Romanians near us, 2013), and has published more than 50 academic papers in international peer-reviewed journals.

Mircea Măran
Pre-school Teacher Training College “Mihailo Palov” in Vršac

Mircea Măran is a professor at the Pre-school Teacher Training College “Mihailo Palov in Vršac. He graduated from the Philosophy Faculty of the University of Novi Sad, where he also got his MA and PhD, with a thesis on the cultural situation of Romanians in the Serbian Banat between 1945 and 1952. His research interests are the history of Romanians in the Serbian Banat, and Romanian-Serbian relations. He is the author of several monographs, among which areRomânii din Voivodina (The Romanians in Vojvodina, 2011), Românii din Banatul sârbesc în anii interbelici 1918–1941 (The Romanians in the Serbian Banat in the interwar years 1918–1941, 2012), and has published more than 50 academic papers in international peer-reviewed journals.