Rada Varga is a Scientific Researcher at the Babeș-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca. She holds a PhD in History, with a specialisation in the field of Ancient History. Her principal research interests are in the areas of Roman prosopography, provincial social studies, economic history and digital humanities. She has previously been awarded several fellowships and research projects, which have involved both close collaboration with scholars from a range of European universities and the investigation of complex, interdisciplinary research topics. In the digital humanities field, she has served as the principal investigator on a project that has yielded significant results and continues to be relevant in the field (Romans1by1), taught classes and seminars, and participated in international teaching programs. She is currently the principal investigator of a project examining the material culture of the Batavians from Roman Dacia, a particular group of auxiliary soldiers in the Roman Empire, and the ways in which objects reflect migration, change and identity. This project employs archaeology as a tool to reconstruct historical narrations, and is therefore inherently interdisciplinary and collaborative. It entails chemical analyses of artefacts, statistical renderings and projections of the macro-results. It is noteworthy that Dr. Varga has endeavored to disseminate her research to a wider audience through articles in popular history journals, such as Historia and Ancient warfare.
