DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Interests

Geographic Field(s):  Modern European History: Central/Eastern Europe

Thematic Field(s):  Legal and Criminal History; Economic and Labor History; Urban History

Principal Research Interest(s):  Holocaust and genocide studies, Jewish history

Biography

Ștefan Cristian Ionescu is currently a Theodore Zev and Alice R. Weiss-Holocaust Educational Foundation Visiting Associate Professor in Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University. He was a Senior Lecturer in Holocaust and genocide studies at Hugo Valentin Center, Uppsala University; Judith B. and Burton P. Resnick Visiting Fellow at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC; a Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate at Chapman University; and Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Elon University. Ionescu holds a Ph.D. in history from Clark University. He is the author of several book chapters and articles in such journals as Nationalities Papers: A Journal of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Journal of Genocide Research, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of History and Culture, Yad Vashem Studies, and Culture and Psychology. Ionescu’s book, entitled Jewish Resistance to Romanianization: 1940-1944, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015.