About
Historian, archaeologist. My research is focusing on:
- – Roman religion in the Danubian provinces, especially the case study of Dacia
- cult of Mithras in Dacia and the Danubian provinces
- history of archaeological thought in Romania and Central-East Europe
- heritage of Béla Cserni and András Bodor
- public archaeology in Romania
Education
2007-2010: BA – history (Cluj Napoca, Babes-Bolyai University)
2010-2012: MA- archeology (Cluj Napoca, Babes-Bolyai University)
2012-2016: P.h.D. in archeology and religious studies (University of Pécs, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt)
15 scholarships and small grants since 2009 in Romania, Hungary, Italy and Germany Publications
- Csaba Szabó – Imola Boda, Bibliography of Roman Religion in Dacia (BRRD). Cluj -Napoca, 2014.
- Csaba Szabó, Béla Cserni and the beginnings of urban archaeology in Alba Iulia. Cluj –Napoca, 2016.
- Csaba T. Szabó, Erdélyi Régészet. Kisirások régészetről és műemlékvédelemről [Transylvanian archaeology. Short writings on archaeology and cultural heritage]. Cluj Napoca, 2017
- Csaba Szabó, Sanctuaries in Roman Dacia: materiality and religious experience. Archaeopress, Roman Archaeological Series 49, Oxford, 2018
- T. Szabó Csaba, Erdélyi Régészet II. Irások régészetről és örökségvédelemről, Kolozsvár, 2019
- Csaba Szabó – Imola Boda, The gods of Roman Dacia. An illustrated dictionary, Lampert Publishing, 2019
- Csaba Szabó, András Bodor and the history of classics in Transylvania, Archaeopress, Oxford, 2020
- Csaba Szabó, Roman religion in the Danubian provinces. Space sacralisation and religious communication during the Principate (1st-3rd century AD), Oxbow, Oxford, 2022
- Nemeti, Sorin, Csaba Szabó & Imola Boda (eds.), Si deus si dea. New perspectives in the study of Roman religion in Dacia. Special edition of Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai seria Historia nr. 61, vol. 1. 2016
- Adalbert Cserni and his contemporaries. The pioneers of archaeology in Alba Iulia and beyond. Co-editor with V. R. Bolindet, M. Gligor, G. Rustoiu, Cluj-Napoca, 2017.
- ARTICLES AND OTHER STUDIES
- 1. Dacia and the Cult of Mithras. In: Mithras Reader: Journal of Greek, Roman and Persian Studies, Vol III., London, 2010, 84-99.2. Mithras – un zeu antic si modern – In: Trifescu, Valentin (ed.), Confulente si particularitati europene. Cluj, 2010, 137–146. [Mithras: an ancient and modern divinity]
3. Boda Imola – Szabó Csaba, Notes on a Dolichenian Relief from Mehadia. In:
Marisia 31, 2011, 273–283
4. Searching for the lightbearer: notes on a Mithraic relief from Dragu. In: Marisia
XXXII, 2012, 135–145.
5. Micro-regional Manifestation of a Private Cult. The Mithraic Community in Apulum. In: Moga, Iulian (ed.), Angels, demons and representations of Afterlife within the Jewish, Pagan and Christian Imagery. Antiqua et Mediaevalia. Iasi, 2012, 43 – 73.
6. The Mithraic statue of Secundinus from Apulum. In: ReDiva I., 2013, 45 – 65.
7. A vallási élet néhány gazdasági aspektusai Apulumban. In: V. Nemzetközi és
XI. Országos Interdiszciplináris Grastyán Konferencia Kötete, Pécs, 2013, 373–383. [Some economic aspects of the religious life in Apulum]
8. The map of Roman Dacia in the recent studies. In: JAHA I, 2014, 44–51.
9. Urbs et cultus deorum. Római vallás a Kr.u. II – III. századi városokban. In:
Vallástudományi Szemle 2014/1 – 2, 42-58.
10. Discovering the Gods in Apulum: historiography and new perspectives. In:
ReDiva II, 2014, 53–82.
11. Notes on a new salariarius from Apulum. In: Apulum 51, 2014, 533-544.
12. Roman religious studies in Romania. Historiography and new perspectives.
In: Ephemeris Napocensis, 24, 2014, 195-208.
13. Notes on the Mithraic small finds from Sarmizegetusa. In: Ziridava, 28, 2014, 135-148.
14. Mithras rediscovered. Notes on the CIMRM 1938 (with George Bounegru, Victor Sava). In: Ziridava 28, 2014, 149-156.
15. Mithras rediscovered II. Further notes on CIMRM 1938 and 1986. In: JAHA 2, 2015, 67-73.
16. Notes on a new Cautes statue from Apulum. In: Archaeologische Korrespondenzblatt 2/2015, 237-247.
17. The cult of Mithras in Apulum: communities and individuals. In: Zerbini, Livio (ed.), Culti e religiositá nelle province danubiane”, 2015, 407-422.
18. With Ota, Radu, Cultul lui Magna Mater in Dacia romană. In Apulum 52, 2015, 227-244.
19. Romans in the garden. Notes on some recently attested stone monuments from Alba Iulia. In: Apulum 52, 2015, 217-225.
20. Placing the gods. Sanctuaries and sacralized spaces in the settlements of Apulum, Revista Doctoranzilor în istorie veche şi arhelogie, 3, 2015, 123-160.
21. Karl Gooss and the temple of Jupiter in Apulum, Journal of Ancient History and Archaeology 2.4, 2015, 136-144.
22. Digging up Lived Religion. Notes on a recent companion of archaeology of religion, Archaeus 19-20, 2015-2016, 471-482.
23. Histories of urban archaeology in Alba Iulia (1916-2016). In: Transylvania Nostra, 2, 2016, 30-41.
24. Mapping Apulum. Reconstructing a Roman city. In: Dobos Alpár – Molnár Zsolt & Pánczél Szilamér (eds.), ‘Archaeologia Transylvanica. Studia in honorem Stephani Bajusz. Cluj – Napoca, 2015, 115-124.
25. Artemis from Ephesus in Apulum: notes on a recently discovered bronze statuette. (with Radu Ota, & Marius Ciuta). In: Acta Archaeologica Hungarica, 67, vol. 2., 2016, 231-243.
26. Beyond iconography. Notes on the cult of the Thracian Rider in Apulum. In: Nemeti, Sorin, Csaba Szabó & Imola Boda (szerk.), Si deus si dea. New perspectives in the study of Roman religion in Dacia. Studia Universitatis Babes- Bolyai seria Historia nr. 61, vol. 1. 2016, 62-73.
27. Bodor András (1915-1999). In: Rüsz-Fogarasi Enikő (ed.), A Babes-Bolyai Tudományegyetem Évönyve 2016, 219-229.
28. Notes on a new Mithraic inscription from Dacia. (with I. Boda & C. Timoc). In:
Mensa Rotunda Epigraphica, Cluj Napoca, 2016, 91-104.
29. Párbeszéd Róma isteneivel. A római vallások kutatásának jelenlegi állása és perspektívái. In: Orpheus Noster, 2017, 2. 151-163.
30. Histories of archaeology in Transylvania. A short overview. In Csaba Szabó, Viorica Rusu-Bolindet, Gabriel Rustoiu, Mihai Gligor (eds.), Adalbert Cserni and his contemporaries. The pioneers of archaeology in Alba Iulia and beyond, Cluj-Napoca, 2017, 373-400.
31. Reconstructing Béla Cserni’s biography. In: Csaba Szabó, Viorica Rusu- Bolindet, Gabriel Rustoiu, Mihai Gligor (eds.), Adalbert Cserni and his contemporaries. The pioneers of archaeology in Alba Iulia and beyond, Cluj- Napoca, 2017, 23-34.
32. Béla Pósta. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, ed. by Claire Smith, New York: Springer (Online version)
Memberships
Member of the External Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Member of the Transylvanian Museum Society
Member of the Romanian Archaeological Association