Professor Marius Turda

BA, MA, PhD

Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine

School of Education, Humanities and Languages

Role

Professor Turda has supervised and continues to supervise BA, MA and PhD dissertations on various aspects of the history of eugenics, racism and the Holocaust.

Teaching and supervision

Courses

Modules taught

Undergraduate

Death, Disease and Doctors: Medicine and Society [Year 1];
Power and Dominion [Year 1];
Brave New Worlds: Evolution and its Discontents [Year 2];
On Race and Racism [Year 3]

Postgraduate

Engineering Society: Eugenics and Biopolitics in Europe, 1860-1945 [MA]

Supervision

Currently, Professor Turda is supervising the following doctoral students:

Anca Stef
Terry-Lee Marttinen
John Mason
James Martyn

Research

Professor Turda's research interests are in the history of eugenics, race and racism as well as the Holocaust.

Research impact

More information about Professor Turda's research impact can be found at: Confront Eugenics website.

Centres and institutes

Centre for Medical Humanities (CMH)

Groups

Projects

“We are not alone”: Legacies of Eugenics

Projects as Principal Investigator, or Lead Academic if project is led by another Institution

Uppsala University studentship - Terry-Lee Marttinen (01/09/2022 - 31/08/2028), funded by: Vetenskapsradet (Swedish Research Council), funding amount received by Brookes: £49,416
'We are not alone': Legacies of Eugenics, 1921-2021 (01/07/2021 - 31/12/2025), funded by: Ford Foundation, funding amount received by Brookes: £140,233
Ana Aslan and Gerovital: Rejuvenation, Gerontology and Senescence in Romania - extra funding (01/11/2019 - 31/12/2025), funded by: Farmec SA, funding amount received by Brookes: £3,200
Ana Aslan and Gerovital: Rejuvenation, Gerontology and Senescence in Romania (01/11/2019 - 07/01/2023), funded by: Farmec SA, funding amount received by Brookes: £13,158

Publications

Turda M, Șandru D, Ceea ce s-a întâmplat din 1965 până în 1989 a fost cel mai dramatic proiect eugenist pe care l-a cunoscut România modernă
Polis – Revistă de Științe Politice 12 (4) (2024) ISSN: 1221-9762 Ceea ce s-a întâmplat din 1965 până în 1989 a fost cel mai dramatic proiect eugenist pe care l-a cunoscut România modernă Open Access version on RADAR
Turda M, Eugenics and the Racialisation of "White Eastern Europeans"
Cultural Sociology (2023) ISSN: 1749-9755 eISSN: 1749-9763
Turda M, Diwan P, Challenging National Canons: New Perspectives and the Possibilities of an Anti-Eugenic Future
Revista Brasileira de História 43 (94) (2023) ISSN: 0102-0188 eISSN: 1806-9347
Turda M, Eugenia și stigmatizarea indivizilor „cu boli mintale”
Noua Revistă de Drepturile Omului = New Journal of Human Rights 19 (2) (2023) pp.67-72 ISSN: 1841-4710 eISSN: 2734-7567
Turda M, Balogun B, Colonialism, eugenics and "race" in Central and Eastern Europe
Global Social Challenges Journal 2 (2) (2023) pp.168-178 ISSN: 2752-3349 eISSN: 2752-3349
Turda M, Furtuna AN, Roma and the Question of Ethnic Origin in Romania during the Holocaust
Critical Romani Studies 4 (2) (2022) pp.8-32 ISSN: 2560-3019 eISSN: 2630-855X
Turda M, Legacies of eugenics: confronting the past, forging a future
Ethnic and Racial Studies 45 (13) (2022) pp.2470-2477 ISSN: 0141-9870 eISSN: 1466-4356 Legacies of eugenics: confronting the past, forging a future Open Access version on RADAR
Ipgrave B, Chavez-Garcia M, Darnovsky M, Das S, Galarneau C, Garland-Thomson R, Groce NE, Platt T, Reynolds M, Turda M, Wilson RA, From small beginnings: to build an anti-eugenic future
The Lancet 399 (10339) (2022) pp.1934-1935 ISSN: 0140-6736 eISSN: 1474-547X
Turda, M, Subversive Affinities: Embracing Soviet Science in late 1940s Romania
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 83 (2020) ISSN: 1369-8486 eISSN: 1879-2499 Subversive Affinities: Embracing Soviet Science in late 1940s Romania Open Access version on RADAR
Turda M, Scientific Calvinism: Eugenics as a Secular Religion
The Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture 4 (2) (2018) pp.1-16 ISSN: 2057-4517 eISSN: 2057-4525 Scientific Calvinism: Eugenics as a Secular Religion Open Access version on RADAR
Turda M, Unity in Diversity: Latin Eugenic Narrative in Europe, c. 1910s-1930s
Contemporanea: XIXth and XXth Century History Review 1 (2017) pp.3-30 ISSN: 1127-3070 Unity in Diversity: Latin Eugenic Narrative in Europe, c. 1910s-1930s Open Access version on RADAR
Turda M, Romanian Eugenic Sub-Culture and the Allure of Biopolitics, 1918–39
Acta Poloniae Historica 114 (2017) pp.29-58 ISSN: 0001–6829 eISSN: 2450-8462 Romanian Eugenic Sub-Culture and the Allure of Biopolitics, 1918–39 Open Access version on RADAR
Turda M, Redemptive Family Narratives: Olga Lengyel and the Textuality of the Holocaust
Archiva Moldaviae 8 (2016) pp.69-82 ISSN: 2067-3930 Redemptive Family Narratives: Olga Lengyel and the Textuality of the Holocaust Open Access version on RADAR
Turda M, Sub-Cultures and Narratives of Race in Hungary
Cahiers d'Etudes Hongroises et Finlandaises 20-2014 (2015) pp.229-241 ISSN: 1149-6525
Turda M, The ambiguous victim: Miklós Nyiszli's narrative of medical experimentation in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Historein 14 (1) (2014) pp.43-58 ISSN: 2241-2816
Turda M, In Pursuit of Greater Hungary: Eugenic Ideas of Social and Biological Improvement, 1940–1941
The Journal of Modern History 85 (3) (2013) pp.558-591 ISSN: 0022-2801 eISSN: 1537-5358
Turda M, In Search of racial types: soldiers and the anthropological mapping of the Romanian nation, 1914-1944
Patterns of Prejudice 47 (1) (2013) pp.1-21 ISSN: 0031-322X
Turda M, Entangled traditions of race: physical anthropology in Hungary and Romania, 1900-1940
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 58 (3) (2010) pp.32-46 ISSN: 0920-1297
Turda M, The Biology of War: Eugenics in Hungary, 1914-1918
Austrian History Yearbook 40 (2009) pp.238-264 ISSN: 0067-2378 eISSN: 1558-5255
Turda M, To end the degeneration of a nation': debates on eugenic sterilization in inter-war Romania
Medical History 53 (1) (2009) pp.77-104 ISSN: 0025-7273
Turda M, To End the Degeneration of a Nation: Debates on Eugenic Sterilization in Inter-war Romania
Medical History 53 (1) (2009) pp.77-104 ISSN: 0025-7273 eISSN: 2048-8343
Turda M, Conservative palingenesis and cultural modernism in early twentieth-century Romania
Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 9 (4) (2008) pp.437-453 ISSN: 1469-0764 eISSN: 1743-9647
Turda M, Social Hygiene and Public Health in Hungary and Romania, 1920-1940
Gesundheitswesen 68 (2006) pp.496-497 ISSN: 0941-3790 eISSN: 1439-4421

Turda M, În căutarea românului perfect ,
Polirom (2024) ISBN: 9789734698806
Turda M, (ed.), A Cultural History of Race ,
Bloomsbury Publishing (2021) ISBN: 9781350067578
Marius Turda, "Războiul Sfânt” al Rasei ,
Editura Școala Ardeleană (2021) ISBN: 978-606-797-547-5
Feller J, Pyrah R, Turda M, (ed.), Identities In-Between in East-Central Europe ,
CRC Press (2019) ISBN: 9780367244651 eISBN: 9780429282614
Gibson W, O'Brien D, Turda M, (ed.), Teleology and Modernity ,
Routledge (2019) ISBN: 9780815351030 eISBN: 9781351141888
Turda, M., Science and Ethnicity II: Biopolitics and Eugenics in Romania, 1920-1944,
Municipal Museum of Bucharest (2019) ISBN: 9786068717418
Fellerer J, Pyrah R, Turda M, (ed.), Identities in-Between in East-Central Europe,
Routledge (2019) ISBN: 9780367244651
Turda, M Quine, S M, Istorie si rasism: Ideea de rasa de la Iluminism la Donald Trump,
Polirom (2019) ISBN: 9789734671892
, Ştiinţa şi etnicitate II : biopolitică şi eugenism in Romania, 1920-1944 = Science and ethnicity biopolitics and eugenics in Romania, 1920-1944,
Bucharest Municipal Museum (2019) ISBN: 9786068717418
Turda M, (ed.), Religion, Evolution and Heredity ,
University of Wales Press (2018) ISBN: 9781786833785 eISBN: 9781786833808
Turda M, Stiinta si etnicitate: Cercetarea antropologica in Romania anilor '30,
Muzeul Municipiului Bucuresti (2018) ISBN: 9786068717333
Turda M, Quine MS, Historicizing Race : a Global History ,
Bloomsbury Academic (2018) ISBN: 9781441143679 eISBN: 9781441158246
Turda, M., (ed.), Religion, Evolution and Heredity ,
University of Wales Press (2018) ISBN: 9781786833785 eISBN: 9781786833808
Turda M, Ideea de superioritate nationala in Imperiul Austro-Ungar,
Argonaut (2016) ISBN: 9789731096254
Turda M, (ed.), The History of Eugenics in East-Central Europe, 1900-1945 ,
Bloomsbury (2015) ISBN: 9781472533562
Turda M, Eugenism si modernitate: Natiune, Rasa si biopolitica in Europa, 1870-1950,
Polirom (2014) ISBN: 9789734648863
Mishkova D, Turda M, Trencsenyi B, (ed.), Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Eastern Europe 1770-1945: Anti-Modernism,
CEU Press (2014) ISBN: 978-963-7326-62-2
Turda M, Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary ,
Palgrave (2014) ISBN: 978-1-137-29353-4
Turda M, Gillette A, Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspective ,
Bloomsbury (2014) ISBN: 9781472522108
Turda M, Crafting Humans: From Genesis to Eugenics and beyond ,
V&R Unipress (2013) ISBN: 978-3847100591
Promitzer C, Trubeta S, Turda M, (ed.), Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945 ,
CEU Press (2011) ISBN: 9789639776821 eISBN: 9789639776883
Turda M, A healthy nation: eugenics, race and biopolitics in Hungary, 1904-1944,
CEU Press (2010)
Turda M, Modernism and eugenics,
Palgrave Macmillan (2010) ISBN: 9780230230835
Pyrah R, Turda M, Re-Contextualising East Central European History: Nation, Culture and Minority Groups,
Legenda (2009) ISBN: 978-1-906540-87-6
Feldman M, Turda, M, Georgescu T, Clerical Fascism in Interwar Europe ,
Routledge (2008) ISBN: 9781138011380
Turda M, (ed.), The garden and the workshop: disseminating cultural history in East-Central Europe : in memoriam Péter Hanák,
CEU Press and Europa Institut (1999) ISBN: 9630365227

Turda M, Teleology and Race
in Gibson W, O'Brien D, Turda M (ed.), Teleology and Modernity, Routledge (2019) ISBN: 9780815351030 eISBN: 9781351141888
Turda, M, History of medicine in Eastern Europe, including Russia
in Mark Jackson (ed.), A Global History of Medicine, Oxford University Press (2018) ISBN: 9780198803188 History of medicine in Eastern Europe, including Russia Open Access version on RADAR
Turda M, Paul D, Eugenics, History of
in Wright JD (ed.), , Elsevier (2015) ISBN: 9780080970868
Turda M, Allen G, Eugenics as a Basis for Population Policy
in Wrigth JD (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), Elsevier (2015) ISBN: 978-0-08-097087-5
Turda M, Biology and Eugenics
in Saler M (ed.), The Fin-De-Siècle World, Routledge (2014) ISBN: 9780415674133 eISBN: 9781315748115
Turda M, Academic History Writing in the Balkans to 1945
in The Oxford History of Historical Writing 1800-1945 , Oxford University Press (2011) ISBN: 9780199533091
Turda M, History of Medicine in Eastern Europe, including Russia
in Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine , Oxford University Press (2011) ISBN: 9780199546497
Turda M, Race, science and eugenics in the twentieth century
in Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics , Oxford University Press (2010) ISBN: 9780195373141

Turda M, review of Review: Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century
Social History of Medicine 27 (3) (2014) pp.623-624 ISSN: 0951-631X eISSN: 1477-4666
Turda M, review of Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives on Health
Medical History 57 (2013) pp.149-151 ISSN: 0025-7273 eISSN: 2048-8343
Turda M, review of Public Space in Budapest: the History of Kossuth Square
European History Quarterly 42 (2012) pp.351-352 ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
Turda M, review of Between States: the Transylvania Question and the European Idea During World War II
Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies 69 (2010) pp.448-450 ISSN: 0037-6779 eISSN: 2325-7784
Turda M, review of Between War and Euthanasia. Forced Sterilizations in Vienna 1940-1945
Social History of Medicine 23 (2010) pp.408-412 ISSN: 0951-631X eISSN: 1477-4666
Turda M, review of ... Common Sense, Not Repugnant to ...? Catholic Eugenics in Austria Before 1938
Social History of Medicine 23 (2010) pp.408-412 ISSN: 0951-631X eISSN: 1477-4666
Turda M, review of Eugenic Reason. Intervention in the Reproductive Culture By Medicine, 1900-2000
Social History of Medicine 23 (2010) pp.408-412 ISSN: 0951-631X eISSN: 1477-4666
Turda M, review of Searching for Cioran
Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies 69 (2010) pp.222-223 ISSN: 0037-6779 eISSN: 2325-7784
Turda M, review of The Pure Society: From Darwin to Hitler
History of the Human Sciences 23 (2010) pp.132-134 ISSN: 0952-6951 eISSN: 1461-720X
Turda M, review of An Infamous Past: E. M. Cioran and the Rise of Fascism in Romania
43 (2009) pp.187-189
Turda M, review of New Perspectives on Race and Eugenics
The Historical Journal 51 (2009) pp.1115-1124 ISSN: 0018-246X eISSN: 1469-5103
Turda M, review of Slavic Thinkers Or the Creation of Polities. Intellectual History and Political Thought in Central Europe and the Balkans in the 19th Century
European History Quarterly 39 (2009) pp.512-513 ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
Turda M, review of Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe
European History Quarterly 38 (2008) pp.152-154 ISSN: 0265-6914 eISSN: 1461-7110
Turda M, review of Doing Medicine Together: Germany and Russia Between the Wars
American Historical Review 112 (2008) pp.1601-1602 ISSN: 0002-8762 eISSN: 1937-5239
Turda M, review of Eugenics and the Welfare State: Sterilization Policy in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, 2nd Edition
Bulletin of the History of Medicine 81 (2008) pp.894-895 ISSN: 0007-5140 eISSN: 1086-3176
Turda M, review of Medical Apartheid: the Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present
Social History of Medicine 20 (2008) pp.620-621 ISSN: 0951-631X eISSN: 1477-4666
Turda M, review of From Craniology to Serology: Racial Anthropology in Interwar Hungary and Romania
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 43 (2007) pp.361-377 ISSN: 0022-5061 eISSN: 1520-6696
Turda M, review of From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich.
41 (2007) pp.96-99
Turda M, review of Rumania and Transnistria: Holocaust Problem: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
40 (2007) pp.505-507
Turda M, review of Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials: From Medical War Crimes to Informed Consent.
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 61 (2006) pp.236-240 ISSN: 0022-5045 eISSN: 1468-4373

Turda M, Science and Ethnicity II: Biopolitics and Eugenics in Romania, 1920-1944 = Ştiinţa şi etnicitate II : biopolitică şi eugenism in Romania, 1920-1944 ,
(2019)

Professional information

Memberships of professional bodies

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Member of the Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Member of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography
Fellow of the Adelphi Genetics Forum (formerly Galton Institute)
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the Academia Europaea
Member of the American Psychological Association

Conferences

Recent conferences organised and papers presented

See the History of Race and Eugenics (HRE) for a full list of conferences.

Seminar series organised

Co-founder and convenor of East & East-Central Europe Seminar, University of Oxford (2006-2012)
Convenor of the History of Medicine Seminar, Oxford Brookes University (2010-2014)
Convenor of the Centre for Medical Humanities Seminar, Oxford Brookes University (2015-present)

Further details

Series editor of CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
Confront Eugenics website