Daniela Stanciu-Păscărița is an assistant professor in the Department of History, Heritage and Protestant Theology, Faculty of Socio-Human Sciences, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. The PhD thesis focused on a comparative approach to the leisure activities of the Germans in Transylvania and Banat before and during the First World War, and was defended at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, under the careful guidance of Professor Rudolf Gräf. Her research interests include urban anthropology and the study of the city in the modern era, the history of nationalities and minorities, and the history of everyday life under social, cultural and demographic aspects.
During her studies, Daniela Stanciu-Păscărita carried out research internships in Germany and Austria at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (2011), Institut für donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Tübingen (2014 & 2017), Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte, Vienna (2015), Humboldt University of Berlin (2018 & 2019).
Daniela Stanciu-Păscărița is currently working on her UEFISCDI-funded postdoctoral project, Being a Minority in Greater Romania.Integration and Patterns of Sociability among Transylvanian Saxons (POL-SOC-SAS), and she is also a fellow of the New Europe College from October 2024 to July 2025.
Recent published works include Daniela Stanciu-Păscărița, Loisir în vremuri de pace și război. Germanii din Transilvania și Banat [Leisure in times of war and peace. The Germans from Transylvania and Banat], ed. Mega, Cluj-Napoca, 2024; Daniela Stanciu-Păscărița, The Precariousness of Everyday Life in Sibiu in Connection to the Great War, in Ana Sima (ed.) Fighting Hardship, Keeping Hope. The Transylvanian Home Front During the Great War, Peter Lang, 2022, Berlin, Daniela Stanciu-Păscărița, Das Kaffeehaus aus Hermannstadt. Unterhaltung und Geselligkeit am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts, Südost-Forschungen 80 (2021).