Doina Anca Cretu is a historian of modern Central and Eastern Europe. Topically, her research interests focus on humanitarianism, development, refugees, nationalism and national indifference, and the relationship between social policy, culture, and foreign relations.<\/p>\n
Anca is currently Research Fellow within the ERC Consolidator Grant \u201cUnlikely Refuge? Refugees and citizens in 20th<\/sup> century East-Central Europe.\u201d \u00a0Her related project investigates concepts regarding \u201cspaces of refugeedom\u201d in twentieth-century Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on refugee camps in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, during the First World War.<\/p>\n Anca holds a PhD (2018) in International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and was previously a 2019-2020 Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She also held visiting fellowships at Institut f\u00fcr die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna (2018-2019), University of Oxford (2017-2018), and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (2015-2016).<\/p>\n Anca is also currently working on a book manuscript preliminarily titled In Quest of an Ideal: Foreign Aid and Nation-Building in Interwar Romania<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n