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First Name
Cristina A.
Last Name
Bejan
Country
United States
State
Affiliation
Independent Scholar
Website URL
https://www.cristinaabejan.com/
Keywords
Intellectual History, Cultural History, Eastern Europe, Romania, Moldova, Fascism, Communism, Totalitarianism, Holocaust, Global Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, Vichy France, North & West Africa, Vanuatu (Melanesia, South Pacific), Theatre/Theater
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Dr. Cristina A. Bejan lives in Paris, France and is currently auditing classes at the Sorbonne while working on multiple book and writing projects.
PhD
PhD

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About Me

Cristina A. Bejan is a historian, theatre artist, and poet. A Rhodes and Fulbright scholar, she has had fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Wilson Center and Georgetown University. She has taught at five universities in the USA. Bejan received her Masters and DPhil (PhD) in Modern History from the University of Oxford and her BA in Philosophy (Honors) from Northwestern University, where she also studied theatre. While a researcher for USHMM, she authored 64 articles on camps in Africa and Europe for the “Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos – Vol. 3.” In 2019 she published her first history book “Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania: The Criterion Association,” and in 2020 debut poetry collection “Green Horses on the Walls.” Her published plays include “J’y suis j’y reste / Here I am, here I stay”  (in Voices on the Move, an anthology by and about refugees edited by Domnica Radulescu and Roxana Cazan), “Buchenwald” (Next Stage Press, 2023) and Finally Quiet: Four Plays from Bucharest to Washington DC (No Passport Press, 2023). A playwright and spoken word artist, her creative work has appeared in the US, UK, Romania and Vanuatu. Bejan runs the arts and culture collective Bucharest Inside the Beltway (BiB). Please visit www.cristinaabejan.com Cristina A. Bejan PhD (LinkedIn).

Dr. Bejan departed University of Denver (DU) in April 2025 to take up the professional role of Outreach for the Rhodes Trust at the University of Oxford to Romania and the Republic of Moldova. She no longer has any teaching or research connection to DU whatsoever. Dr. Bejan’s job at University of Denver is a former role.

Recent Publications

Academic Books

* Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania: The Criterion Association (Palgrave, 2019)
* United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Vol III (Contributor, Indiana University Press, 2018)

For articles and book reviews, please visit -> 

https://independent.academia.edu/CristinaBejanPhD

Media Coverage
Washington Post, Huffington Post, Evenimentul Zilei, Radio Romania International , Observator Cultural, among others
Country Focus
Romania, Republic of Moldova, France, North & West Africa, Vanuatu
Expertise by Geography
Africa, Eastern Europe, India, Pacific, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
Modern, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Genocide, Holocaust & Nazi Persecution, Human Rights, Literary History, Military, Politics, Rebellion & Revolution, Religion, Urban History, World War II