{"id":14231,"date":"2024-04-04T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T09:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-v2.kulturwissenschaften.de\/?post_type=person&#038;p=14231"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:15:02","slug":"dr-anca-mandru","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/person\/dr-anca-mandru\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Anca Mandru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Academic Career<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2021- 2023<br \/>\nGerda Henkel Postdoctoral Researcher in the project \u201cThe Liminality of Failing Democracy: East Central Europe during the Interwar Slump,\u201d University of Birmingham, UK<\/p>\n<p>2019- 2020<br \/>\nTeaching Fellow in Modern European History, Department of History, University of Birmingham, UK<\/p>\n<p>2019<br \/>\nPhD, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA; Thesis Title: <em>Socialism of Sentiment: Progress, Culture and Community in the Early Romanian Left<\/em> <em>(1880-1914), <\/em>supervisor: Maria Todorova<\/p>\n<p>2016- 2017<br \/>\nThe Humanities Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Illinois Graduate Fellowship<\/p>\n<p>2012-2013<br \/>\nAmerican Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC IDRF)<\/p>\n<p>2012<br \/>\nDan David Prize Graduate Fellowship for History\/Biography<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eastern European History<\/li>\n<li>Comparative Socialism(s) and Nationalism(s)<\/li>\n<li>Cultural and Intellectual History<\/li>\n<li>Sociology of Literature<\/li>\n<li>Social and Cultural History of the Great Depression<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe Allure of Royal Patronage: Interwar Romanian Intellectuals and the Quest for Security\u201d (under review for <em>Slavic Review<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li><em>The Great Depression in Eastern Europe<\/em>, volume co-edited with Klaus Richter and Jasmin Nithammer, under contract with CEU Press.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDegrees of Crisis: The Romanian Countryside during the Great Depression,\u201d, chapter in volume <em>Building Citizenship in Central and South-Eastern Europe<\/em>, edited by Andrei Sora, Sorin Radu and Constantin Iordachi, under contract with Palgrave Macmillan.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCircumventing the Uncomfortable: The Historiography of the Early Romanian Left,\u201d in <em>Re-Imagining the Balkans: How to Think and Teach a Region<\/em>, edited by Augusta Dimou, Theodora Dragostinova, and Veneta Ivanova (Regensburg, 2023), 257-268.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c\u2018Nationalism as a National Danger\u2019? Early Romanian Socialists and the Paradoxes of the National Question (1880-1914)\u201d <em>Nationalities Papers <\/em>Vol.43, Issue 2 (2015), 319-336.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mandru-anca-cv-2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Extensive CV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":14707,"template":"","person_category":[288,675,437],"class_list":["post-14231","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","person_category-alumni","person_category-cohort-8-en","person_category-fellows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/14231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"person_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_category?post=14231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}