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Doina Anca Cretu, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • 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

Research Interests

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

Research projects

  • 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

Fellowships abroad

  • 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

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • Cretu, Doina Anca. Health, Disease, Mortality; Demographic Effects, International Encyclopedia of the First World War, 1914-1918 Online (forthcoming).
  • Cretu, Doina Anca. "Nationalizing international relief: Romanian responses to American aid for children in the Great War era," European Review of History/revue 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, No. 2 (October 2019).

Book Chapters

  • Cretu, Doina Anca. For The “Youth of The Great Nation:” The American YMCA and Nation-Building in Greater Romania in the Interwar Period (forthcoming in Spreading Protestant Modernity: Global Perspectives on the Social Work of the YMCA and YWCA,1889-1970, eds. Harald Fischer- Tine, Stefan Hubner, Ian Tyrrell).

Book Reviews

  • Cretu, Doina Anca. Review of Michelle Tusan, “The British Empire and the Armenian Genocide: Humanitarianism and Imperial Politics from Gladstone to Churchill,” Twentieth Century British History, September 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwy031
  • Cretu, Doina Anca. Review of Robert Nemes, “Another Hungary: The Nineteenth-Century Provinces in Eight Lives,” Nations and  Nationalism, January 2018. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12357
  • Cretu, Doina Anca. Review of Jelena Batinić, “Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance,” Slavonic and East European Review, July 2016. DOI: 10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.3.0562

Editorials