Relational Evolution of Ethnic Political Identities in Romania and Slovakia, 1989-1999: A Qualitative Event Database This research consists of a collection of 120,000 digital photos of local newspaper articles in Hungarian, Romanian, and Slovak, which chronologically document the incremental emergence of ethnic political identities in Romania and Slovakia. The collapse of Communism in 1989 provided a unique moment in which political actors began to contest on an open political field for the first time in decades. It is in this setting that the “us-them” dynamics of ethnic politics can be traced over time. Used in 2012 book, Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe (Cambridge 2012), and for ongoing current projects.