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Dr Doina Anca Cretu is an Assistant Professor in Modern European History at the University of Warwick's Department of History (Faculty of Arts). Her academic career includes roles as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Vienna (2023-2024) and a Research Associate at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2020-2024, part of an ERC-funded project). She holds a PhD in International History and Politics from the Graduate Institute Geneva (2013-2018) and was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (2019-2020).
Her research focuses on humanitarianism, migration, and state-building in East-Central Europe, with a particular emphasis on refugee histories and international aid dynamics. Her monograph Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania (Stanford UP, 2024) examines how Romanian state-building intersected with international humanitarian efforts. Current work explores the emergence of modern refugee governance in the Habsburg Empire during WWI, analyzing state policies, humanitarian mobilization, and refugee experiences. She co-edits a volume on Humanitarian Mobilisation in East-Central Europe (Manchester UP, forthcoming).
Teaching specialties include 20th-century European political history, gender studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to migration. She advises students on topics related to humanitarian history, refugee studies, and East-Central Europe. Her work has been supported by grants from the ERC and other institutions, and her research has been published in journals like Central European History and Journal of Contemporary History.
