D. Anca Cretu
@dacretu.bsky.social
Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. My first book available now: https://www.sup.org/books/history/foreign-aid-and-state-building-interwar-romania . Currently writing on refugees, Central Europe, WWI
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Refugees and the Governance of Time in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War
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Self-promotion, but will be giving a talk on something I have been VERY slowly working on at University of Oxford next Tuesday (11 November) at 5 pm! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/26c...
Alan Carr, how I love thee!
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Alan Carr, how I love thee!
David Olusoga representing historians well on Celebrity Traitors UK. 😅
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
David Olusoga representing historians well on Celebrity Traitors UK. 😅
Self-promotion, but will be giving a talk on something I have been VERY slowly working on at University of Oxford next Tuesday (11 November) at 5 pm! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/26c...
Refugees and the Governance of Time in the Habsburg Empire during the First World War
talks.ox.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Self-promotion, but will be giving a talk on something I have been VERY slowly working on at University of Oxford next Tuesday (11 November) at 5 pm! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/26c...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Thank you for the critical eye and big picture!
In Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024), Doina Anca Cretu explores how Romania leveraged American aid for post–First World War modernization and reconstruction. Mathias Fuelling reviews the book.
Read here:
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Read here:
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Humanitarian aid and philanthropy in interwar Romania - CEU Review of Books
In Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania (Stanford UP, 2024), Doina Anca Cretu explores how Romania leveraged American aid for post–First World War modernization and reconstruction. Mathi...
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October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Thank you for the critical eye and big picture!
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Lipscani Street in Bucharest in 1939.
October 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Lipscani Street in Bucharest in 1939.
I tapped on my earlier work and played a little with ideas that we might have to look back to find a roadmap of future in aid. "Ebbs and Flows of International Aid and the Model of Interwar Eastern Europe: An Experimental Reflection" www.fondation-pierredubois.ch/wp-content/u...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I tapped on my earlier work and played a little with ideas that we might have to look back to find a roadmap of future in aid. "Ebbs and Flows of International Aid and the Model of Interwar Eastern Europe: An Experimental Reflection" www.fondation-pierredubois.ch/wp-content/u...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Finally caught up with these beautiful texts! Content on the side, we have some amazing writers in our field…
Check out the 20 blogs by emerging scholars in Central European history, discussing the successes, promises, + challenges experienced at the 2025 Vienna Central European History Convention, that featured 2 keynotes + 55 panels, among other events. cehc.hypotheses.org
October 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Finally caught up with these beautiful texts! Content on the side, we have some amazing writers in our field…
Great time to listen to inspiring work ( and share my humble contributions) at the “Refugees in the Mediterranean: Flight, Migration, and Relief during the Twentieth Century” for the past 2 days. Many thanks to Ruth Natermann for the invitation! ( And nice to see a bit of Rome in the process)
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Great time to listen to inspiring work ( and share my humble contributions) at the “Refugees in the Mediterranean: Flight, Migration, and Relief during the Twentieth Century” for the past 2 days. Many thanks to Ruth Natermann for the invitation! ( And nice to see a bit of Rome in the process)
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Major multiple job opportunities klaxon 📣. If you are looking for a change and fancy living in a UNESCO world heritage city and working in a university with a culture of collaboration and excellence with impact, please come and join us. #WeAreInternational
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October 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Major multiple job opportunities klaxon 📣. If you are looking for a change and fancy living in a UNESCO world heritage city and working in a university with a culture of collaboration and excellence with impact, please come and join us. #WeAreInternational
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Came across this rather suddenly, but many many thanks to Kimberly Lowe for such a careful reading and critical eye on my book. academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...
Looking for the Local in US Aid to Romania
Historian Doina Anca Cretu’s monograph focuses on US humanitarian and philanthropic projects in Romania after World War I. The book’s four chapters covers
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October 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Came across this rather suddenly, but many many thanks to Kimberly Lowe for such a careful reading and critical eye on my book. academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...
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Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.
September 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.
The multilayered question is why many eastern Europeans vote for Farage's allies in loco: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage falsely accuses eastern European migrants of eating swans from royal parks
Nigel Farage has been accused of ‘peddling wild conspiracy theories’ with critics saying his latest claims are a ‘direct lift from the Trump song book’
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September 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The multilayered question is why many eastern Europeans vote for Farage's allies in loco: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Many thanks to Grant Harward for the kind review of my book! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Foreign Aid and State Building in Interwar Romania: In Quest of an Ideal
Published in First World War Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Many thanks to Grant Harward for the kind review of my book! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Shoutout to my good friend and collaborator, Dagmar Hájková, who knows way more about TGM than anyone should have to. 🥰https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/europe/tgm-letter-czech-republic-scli-intl
Czechs agog as national archive prepares to open mysterious envelope sealed for 20 years | CNN
Citizens of the Czech Republic are waiting with bated breath for a longstanding mystery to be solved: What were the last words of the country’s revered first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk?
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September 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Shoutout to my good friend and collaborator, Dagmar Hájková, who knows way more about TGM than anyone should have to. 🥰https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/europe/tgm-letter-czech-republic-scli-intl
Escaping to Italy and checking a bucket list must since I was 8: F1 Grand Prix at Monza.
September 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Escaping to Italy and checking a bucket list must since I was 8: F1 Grand Prix at Monza.
Baffling to say that the "lottery" system was kind to me, but super grateful to have received a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant...Time to finish research for project #2 and spend some time back in Central Europe next year (if all goes well). #birthdaypresent
September 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Baffling to say that the "lottery" system was kind to me, but super grateful to have received a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant...Time to finish research for project #2 and spend some time back in Central Europe next year (if all goes well). #birthdaypresent
Times are grim, but at least Great British Bake-Off is back.
September 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Times are grim, but at least Great British Bake-Off is back.
Fueling racism in Romania like there's no tomorrow as well.
September 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Fueling racism in Romania like there's no tomorrow as well.
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area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
September 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
area man incapable of separating the Roma vs the Romanians
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The kind of good news we have been waiting for far too long:
👇👇👇
"UK preparing for Erasmus reunion"
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"UK preparing for Erasmus reunion"
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September 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The kind of good news we have been waiting for far too long:
👇👇👇
"UK preparing for Erasmus reunion"
www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...
👇👇👇
"UK preparing for Erasmus reunion"
www.researchprofessional.com/0/rr/news/uk...
Good time as any to announce that I have joined the Contemporary European History team as a Reviews Editor. Holler at me if you'd be interested in putting a review essay together...I have already started a list.😎 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Editorial board
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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August 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Good time as any to announce that I have joined the Contemporary European History team as a Reviews Editor. Holler at me if you'd be interested in putting a review essay together...I have already started a list.😎 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps.
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
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"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP
August 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps.
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP