Foreword

Moving beyond Gypsylorism

Authors

  • Dezso Mate Associate Researcher, Europa–Universität Flensburg (EUF) – Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies (ICES)
  • Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka Deputy Director, European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), Berlin
  • Iulius Rostas
  • Calin Rus Director, Intercultural Institute of Timișoara, Romania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29098/crs.v8i1.241

Abstract

Foreword to the thematic issue "Racism and Romani Studies"

Author Biographies

  • Dezso Mate, Associate Researcher, Europa–Universität Flensburg (EUF) – Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies (ICES)

    Dezso Mate holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Sociology from Eötvös Loránd University. Currently he is a Research Fellow at Europa–Universitat Flensburg and Visiting Research Fellow at Heidelberg University – Research Centre on Antigypsyism. In 2025 he was elected as deputy chair of the Barvalipe Academy at European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture. Dr Mate also lectures at the Critical Romani Studies Department at Södertörn University. His research interests encompass the science of racism, intersectional antigypsyism, and social resilience.

  • Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Deputy Director, European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), Berlin

    Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka is a Polish anthropologist and Romani activist. She holds a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has worked with various Romani organisations in Poland and Spain and coordinated EU projects and academic initiatives. A former Open Society Foundations Fellow and CEU Romani Studies Program Post-doctoral Fellow, she studied Roma movements in Latin America and Europe. Dr Mirga-Kruszelnicka co-edited two volumes on the Roma Holocaust and resistance and authored Mobilizing Romani Ethnicity (2022). Since 2018, she serves as deputy director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC).

  • Iulius Rostas

    Iulius Rostas is a Visiting Professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest (Hungary) and the National University of Political Studies and Administration (Romania) and has taught courses on racism at the University of Stuttgart and Dortmund University of Applied Sciences (2021–2024). Between 2016 and 2019 he served as Chair of Romani Studies and Assistant Professor at the Central European University. Previously, he was an Affiliated Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Studies at CEU and a Visiting Lecturer at Corvinus University in Budapest. Dr Rostas is the editor of Ten Years After: A History of Roma School Desegregation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEU Press, 2012) and he published Social Inclusion or Exclusion: The Rights of Persons Living with HIV in Moldova (Cartier Publishing, 2011). He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Critical Romani Studies. He authored A Task for Sisyphus: Why Policies towards
    Roma in Europe Are Failing (CEU Press, 2019) and co-authored Ungleiche Teilhabe (Springer, 2025).

  • Calin Rus, Director, Intercultural Institute of Timișoara, Romania

    Calin Rus holds a PhD in Social Psychology and an MA in Sociology. He has led the Intercultural Institute of Timișoara since 1996 and is also Associate Professor at West University of Timișoara. Since the late 1990s he has been involved as consultant in various activities of the Council of Europe, including several focusing on Roma. Dr Rus’s research interests range from anti-Roma racism, intercultural relations, and intercultural education to democratic participation in disadvantaged communities and competences for democratic culture.

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12/11/2025 — Updated on 01/06/2026

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2025): Racism and Romani Studies

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Foreword: Moving beyond Gypsylorism. (2026). Critical Romani Studies, 8(1), 4-14. https://doi.org/10.29098/crs.v8i1.241 (Original work published 2025)