Doina Anca Cretu, Ph.D.

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

Publication list at MIA CAS in ASEP: here

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Cretu, Doina Anca. “Child Assistance and the Making of Modern Refugee Camps in Austria-Hungary during the First World War.” Central European History, Vol. 55, Issue 4 (December 2022), 510-527. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938922000632 
• 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, Vol. 27, No.4 (February 2020), 527-547.  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, Vol.1, No. 2 (October 2019), 65-88.

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.
• Cretu, Doina Anca. “Securitized Protection: Health Work and the Making of Refugee Camps in Wartime Austria- Hungary,” in Out of Line, Out of Place: A Global and Local History of World War I Internments, eds. Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022), 73-91.

Public History

• “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.