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." In 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).
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." 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.
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
- Cretu, Doina Anca. “The Irony of Triumph: The Muddled Commemorations of Romania's Great Unification,” Current Affairs, Pierre Du Bois Foundation, November 2018. http://www.fondation-pierredubois.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2018-no8-Cretu.pdf
- Cretu, Doina Anca. “Twenty Years After: The Dayton Accords, Legacies and Opportunities in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Current Affairs, Pierre Du Bois Foundation, July 2015. http://www.fondation-pierredubois.ch/twenty-years-after-the-dayton-accords-legacies-and-opportunities-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/
- Cretu, Doina Anca. “Central and Eastern Europe: Media Freedom and the Struggles of Brussels,” Global Minds, The Global Journal, 8 February 2013. http://www.theglobaljournal.net/article/view/993/
- Cretu, Doina Anca. “Romania: The Tragic Comedy and Its Quiet Audience,” Global Minds, The Global Journal, 28 August 2012. http://www.theglobaljournal.net/article/view/818/
- “Grassroots Monitoring and Aid Effectiveness: Does Greater Community Involvement Matter?” co-authored with Bradley C. Parks,The First Tranche, Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Studies, September 2010. https://www.aiddata.org/blog/grassroots-monitoring-and-aid-effectiveness-does-greater-community-involvement-matter