Doina Anca Cretu, Ph.D.

E-mail: cretu@mua.cas.cz

ORCID

2013–2018 PhD, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
2011–2013 MA, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
2007–2011 BA, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA

Humanitarianism, Development, Nationalism and National Indifference, Refugees and Refugee Policy in East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Century

Unlikely refuge? Refugees and citizens in East-Central Europe in the 20th century, ERC Consolidator Grant, Research fellow, starting 09/2020
European Humanitarian Efforts in Transylvania and Bukovina in the Great War Era, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, 2018–2019
Romanian Nation-Building and American Foreign Assistance during and after the First World War, 2013–2018

09/2019–08/2020: Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence
10/2018–03/2019: Junior Visiting Fellowship, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna
10/2017–10/2018: Swiss National Science Foundation Doc. Mobility Fellowship, Faculty of History, University of Oxford

Publication list at MIA CAS in ASEP: here

Cretu, Doina Anca. Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In Quest of an Ideal, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024.

Cretu, Doina Anca. “Child Assistance and the Making of Modern Refugee Camps in Austria-Hungary during the First World War.” Central European History (5 September 2022), doi:10.1017/S0008938922000632.
Cretu, Doina Anca. "Health, Disease, Mortality; Demographic Effects." 1914–1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, eds. Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson (Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, 17 November 2020). DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.11496.
Cretu, Doina Anca. "Nationalizing international relief: Romanian responses to American aid for children in the Great War era." European Review of History / Revue européenne d’histoire (3 February 2020). DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2019.1709049.
Cretu, Doina Anca. "Humanitarian Aid in the 'Bulwark Against Bolshevism': The American Relief Administration and the Quest for Sovereignty in Post-World War I Romania.” Journal of Romanian Studies 1, No. 2 (October 2019).

Cretu, Doina Anca. "For The 'Youth of The Great Nation': The American YMCA and Nation-Building in Greater Romania in the Interwar Period." In Spreading Protestant Modernity: Global Perspectives on the Social Work of the YMCA and YWCA, 1889–1970, eds. Harald Fischer-Tiné, Stefan Huebner, and Ian Tyrrell (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2020), pp. 169–190. DOI: 10.1515/9780824886462-009.
Cretu, Doina Anca. “Securitized Protection: Health Work and the Making of Refugee Camps in Wartime Austria-Hungary” (accepted and forthcoming in World War I and Its Internments: Local, National, and Global Perspectives, eds. Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov).

“Romania: Histories of Refugee Reception,” Current Affairs, Pierre Du Bois Foundation, July 2022.
“Ukraine’s Refugees and the Muddy Waters of Humanitarian Aid: Some Early Thoughts,” New Fascism Syllabus Blog , 3 April 2022.
Collaborator “Experience of Epidemics Podcast,” Episode 13: The World War, refugees, and the long history of Epidemics, 9 November 2021.
“A Regime of Immobility,” History Workshop Journal, 10 May 2021.
“Epidemics and Europe’s Refugee Camps: A Tale of Two Eras,” Current Affairs, Pierre Du Bois Foundation, December 2020.
“The Irony of Triumph: The Muddled Commemorations of Romania's Great Unification,” Current Affairs, Pierre Du Bois Foundation, November 2018.
“Twenty Years After: The Dayton Accords, Legacies and Opportunities in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Current Affairs, Pierre Du Bois Foundation, July 2015.
“Central and Eastern Europe: Media Freedom and the Struggles of Brussels,” Global Minds, The Global Journal, 8 February 2013.
“Romania: The Tragic Comedy and Its Quiet Audience,” Global Minds, The Global Journal, 28 August 2012.
“Grassroots Monitoring and Aid Effectiveness: Does Greater Community Involvement Matter?” The First Tranche, Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Studies, September 2010.