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First Name
Maria
Last Name
Bucur
Affiliation
Indiana University Bloomington
Website URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Bucur
Keywords
gender, Europe, twentieth century, citizenship, memory, eugenics, film, feminism, communism, title IX, sexual misconduct
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About Me

I am an expert in 20th century history of Eastern Europe with a focus on eugenics, war and memory, and gender and communism, as well as an expert in gender studies with a focus on comparative gender regimes in the 20th century, looking at questions of gender justice in relation to citizenship, birth control, sexual violence, and kinship. I teach at Indiana University in history and gender studies and 4 years ago I founded the School for Global and International Studies there. I have served as an expert on political asylum cases for people from Eastern Europe. I have also served on Romania’s highest board for academic accreditation.

Recent Publications

The Birth of Democratic Citizenship:  Women in Modern Romania, with Mihaela Miroiu. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018, .

The Century of Women:  How Women Have Changed the World since 1900, Lanham:  Roman and Littlefield, 2018.

The Global West, co-author with Frank Kidner et al.  Belmont, CA:  Cengage, 2017.

 Gendering Modernism.  A Historical Rappraisal of the Canon. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

“Prostitution in Romania:  Bucharest and Constanta,” Guide to the League of Nations Archives on Human Trafficking, Jean-Michel Chaumont, Paul Servais, and Magaly Rodriguez, eds., 2017.

“Intimate Politics under Communism in Romania,” in Catherine Baker, ed., Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Basingstoke:  Palgrave, 2016.

“The Economics of Citizenship: Gender Regimes and Property Rights in Romania in the 20th Century,” In Anne Epstein and Rachel Fuchs, eds., Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective.  Basingstoke:  Palgrave, 2016.

Heroes and Victims:  Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania, Indiana University Press, 2009.

Media Coverage
Ziare.com, Revistatango.ro, Observator Cultural, LaPunkt.ro, Scena9.ro, Radio Romania International, C-Span, Digi 24, China Radio International, Al-Jazeera, Radio Romania Cultural Actualitati, Radio Romania Actualitati, History Channel, “Global View,
Country Focus
Romania
Expertise by Geography
Eastern Europe, Russia, United States, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
5, 7, 8, 9
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Government, Higher Ed, Law, Medicine, Migration & Immigration, Museums, Pedagogy, Politics, Public History, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women