University at Albany, State University of New York Telephone: (919) 210-6265

CRISTINA FLOREA

University at Albany, State University of New York Telephone: (919) 210-6265

History Department E-mail:

Social Science 145 E

Albany NY 12222

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in History, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, November 2016.

Dissertation:

City of Dreams, Land of Longing: Czernowitz and Bukovina at the Crossroads of Empires, 1875-1991

Committee: Stephen Kotkin, Anson Rabinbach, Jan Gross

M.A. in History, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, May 2012.

General Examinations:

Europe in the Long Twentieth Century (Prof. Anson RabinbachProf. Jan Gross)

The Soviet Empire and Successor States (Prof. Kotkin)

20th-century Cultural and Intellectual History (Prof. Anson Rabinbach)

B.A., summa cum laudae, Highest Honors in History, Williams College, MA, May 2010.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University at Albany, College of Arts and Sciences, State University of New York, 2017-

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Central and Eastern Europe; Germany; Soviet Union/Eurasia; Habsburg Monarchy and Successor States; Empires/Imperial history; Transnational, Global, and Comparative history; Cultural and Intellectual history; Urban history; Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism; Movement, Migration, and Displacement; Borderlands and Frontiers

HONORS ANDAWARDS

ImreKerteszKolleg Jena, Residential Fellowship, History of Central and Eastern Europe, 2017 (declined).

Academy Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University (2016-2017, 2018-2019).

ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship (declined), 2016.

Max Kade Research Grant, American Friends of Marbach, 2014.

Lapidus Summer Research Fellowship, Center for Jewish History, New York, 2014.

American Council of Learned Societies, Eastern Europe Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2013-2014.

John Irwing ’06 Named Fellowship for Academic Excellence, Princeton University, 2010.

PUBLICATIONS

“Emigration Fever: Austria-Hungary’s Easternmost Borderlands and the Problem of Mobility,” in progress.

“The State That Never Was: Legacies of Empire in Interwar Bukovina and the Problems of Nation-Building,” in progress.

CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

upcoming “Between Jewish Emancipation and German Nationalism: Karl Emil Franzos and the German Language,” part of the panel “Languages of Empire as Instruments of Critique and Transgression in 19th-century Austria-Hungary,” presented at the 49th Annual ASEEES Convention, Chicago, IL, 9-12 November, 2017.

upcoming “From Half-Asia to German Oasis: Imagining and Disputing Kulturin Austrian Bukovina,” part of the panel “Czernowitz as a Center of Austrian-Jewish Culture (3): Between Vienna and Half-Asia,” presented at the 41st Annual Conference of GSA, Atlanta, GA, October 5-8, 2017.

“The Last Yiddish Mohican: Josef Burg and Austria’s Legacy in Postwar Bukovina,” part of the panel “Survival Across the Iron Curtain? The Imperial Legacy in Postwar Eastern Europe,” presented at Empire, Socialism, and Jews V: The Postwar Years, Vienna, May 23-24, 2017.

“The Unseen Austria that Remained in our Midst: Empire as a Way of Life and its Aftermath in Bukovina,” 48th Annual Convention of ASEEES, Washington, DC, November 17-20, 2016.

“Emigration Fever: Nationalism, Empire, and the World at the Periphery of Europe,” presented at Harvard University, Harvard Academy of Scholars, November 15, 2016.

“Step Children, Distrusted Brothers: Imperial Collapse and State Building in Bukovina,” part of the panel “Good-Bye to All That? East-Central Europe in the Aftermath of War,” presented at the 47th Annual Convention of ASEEES, Philadelphia PA, November 19-22, 2015.

“Borders That Would Not Go Away: Bukovina’s Imperial Past and Nation-Building in the Interwar Period,” part of the panel “Bukovina,” presented at the 7th International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine, Chernivtsi, 3-9 July 2015.

“World War at the Edge: Bukovina between Empires, 1914-1922,” presented at the Princeton University-Humboldt University Global History Workshop, Berlin, May 2015.

“Culture Bearers: Nationalism and Empire in Habsburg Bukovina,” presented at the Modern Europe Workshop, Princeton University, March 2015.

“Nationalism Against the Nation-State: Raimund Friedrich Kaindl and the Idea of Germany at the Eastern Frontiers,” presented at the 38th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, September 18-21, 2014.

“Renunciations and Dismantlings: Eastern German Ideas of Spatiality and Selfhood After 1989,” presented at the 42nd Annual Convention of North-Eastern Modern Languages Association, New Brunswick, NJ, April 7-10, 2011.

TEACHING

Undergraduate Teaching, University at Albany:

HIS 344: “Europe, 1914-1945” (Fall 2017)

HIS 343: ”Europe, 1848-1914” (Spring 2018)

Graduate Teaching, University at Albany:

HIS 611: “Reading Seminar in European History” (Spring 2018)

Teaching Experience, Princeton University

Assistant-in-instruction, History Department, Princeton University, Spring 2016

“Soviet Empire,” led by Prof. Stephen Kotkin.

Assistant-in-instruction, Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, Princeton University, Fall 2015

“East European Politics and Literature,” led by Prof. Irena Gross.

Assistant-in-instruction, History Department, Princeton University, Spring 2013

“Between Collaboration and Resistance: World War II in Europe,” led by Prof. Jan Gross.

Writing fellow, Princeton Writing Program, 2012-2013, 2014-2015

SERVICE

Member, Undergraduate Committee, University at Albany, Fall 2017

Member, Search Committee for Ancient History, University at Albany, Fall 2017

European Cultural Studies Program, Graduate Affiliate, 2015-2016.

Modern European History Workshop co-organizer, Princeton University, 2012-2013.

Women in History Committee, co-chair, Princeton University, 2010.

LANGUAGES

Romanian (native)

German (fluent)

Russian (fluent)

French (advanced, reading)

Spanish (reading)

Ukrainian (reading, functional speaking)

Yiddish (reading)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

German Studies Association

American Historical Association

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