Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters
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Journal Articles:
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Natalia Linos, Mary T. Bassett, Alejandra Salemi, Margareta Matache, Konstantinos Tararas, Rodney Kort, Susana Gomez, Michela Zaghi, Rosemary Lane, Brianna Harrison, Karin Lucke, Gianna Sanchez, Anne Althaus, Mirna P. Amaya, Theadora Swift Koller, Opportunities to tackle structural racism and ethnicity-based discrimination in recovering and rebuilding from the COVID-19 pandemic, Nature, June 2022
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Margaret M.Sullivan, Margareta Matache, Samuel Peisch, Jacqueline Bhabha, Reproductive healthcare in immigration detention: The imperative of informed consent, The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, Volume 10, June 2022
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Kelly R. Knight, Ph.D., Laura G. Duncan, B.A., Marek Szilvasi, Ph.D., Ashish Premkumar, M.D., Margareta Matache, Ph.D., and Andrea Jackson, M.D., Reproductive (In)justice — Two Patients with Avoidable Poor Reproductive Outcomes, The New England Journal of Medicine, 2019;
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Jacqueline Bhabha, Arlan Fuller, Margareta Matache, Jelena Vranjesevic, Miriam Chernoff, Boris Spasic, Jelena Ivanis, Reclaiming Adolescence: A Roma Youth Perspective, Harvard Educational Review Journal, July 2017
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Margareta Matache in Biased Elites, Unfit Policies: Reflections on the Lacunae of Roma Integration Strategies, European Review Journal. Cambridge University Press, 2017
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Book Chapters:
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Margareta Matache and Jacqueline Bhabha, “The Roma Case for Reparations, “ in Jacqueline Bhabha, Margareta Matache, Caroline Elkins, eds, Time for Reparations, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021
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Margareta Matache, Jennifer Leaning, Jacqueline Bhabha, “Hatred against Roma in Times of Pandemic” in Amy E. Meade, Arlan F. Fuller, Caitlin O. Mahoney, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, eds, Public Health, Mental Health, and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Taylor & Francis, 2021
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Margareta Matache and Simona Barbu, “Assessing Racialized Poverty. The case of Romani people in the EU,” in Martha Davis, Morten Kjaerum, Amanda Lyons, eds, Research Handbook on Poverty and Human Rights, 2021
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Nidhi Trehan and Margareta Matache, “Transatlantic Dialogues and Oppressed Solidarity: Critical Race Activism in the US and Canada,” in Andrew Ryder, Marius Taba and Nidhi Trehan, eds., Romani Communities and Transformative Change: A New Social Europe, Policy Press, 2020
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Margareta Matache, Tanja Jovanovic, Simona Barbu, and Jacqueline Bhabha, “Roma in Higher Education: Access Denied,” in Jacqueline Bhabha, Wenona Giles and Faraaz Mahomed, eds, A Better Future: The Role of Higher Education for Displaced and Marginalized People, Cambridge University Press, 2020
Current Research Focus
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Magda Matache’s current research prioritizes health equity and climate justice. This work is anchored in the Roma Health and Well-being Initiative, which she launched in 2023 within the Roma Program at Harvard to investigate the structural, political, and environmental determinants of Roma health in Europe, the Americas, and beyond.
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Matache is engaged in several interconnected projects that are both intellectually rigorous and deeply motivating.
She is leading a scoping review examining how anti-Roma racism shapes health outcomes, everyday life, and neighborhood conditions across Europe.
In parallel, she is studying how Romani people in the Greater Toronto–Hamilton Area (GTHA) in Canada respond to everyday racism. Building on previous work, this project analyzes how Romani individuals in the GTHA respond to nine specific forms of everyday racism and how these experiences influence their identity, well-being, and overall lives.
Finally, Matache is collaborating with 11 feminists from across Europe on Fostering Strength: Romani Feminist Leadership for Climate Justice. This project examines the distinct and shared impacts of climate hazards on Roma women, children, and families living in segregated areas in Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, and Spain.