2013 - 2016 I served on the RAINN SPEAKERS BUREAU
Cristina A. BejaN, PhD
Finalist for the 2021 MSU Denver Faculty Senate Teaching Award
"Your passion for your discipline and your desire to share that passion with your students [is] obvious ... You are truly an inspiring professor."
- Metropolitan State University of Denver to Prof. Bejan
A seasoned history and theatre professor and historian of totalitarianism and the Holocaust, visit Dr. Cristina A. Bejan's profile on Women Also Know History. Bejan has held teaching appointments at Georgetown University (as the Ion Rațiu Teaching Fellow in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service), Duke University, UNC-Greensboro, Wake Technical Community College, Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Denver. She is currently studying at University of Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne. She has held fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Georgetown University, and twice at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Bejan has presented her research at numerous international conferences. Her writing and research interests include totalitarianism and genocide in Europe, South Asia and Africa. Bejan also worked as a researcher at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for three years. For 9 years she served as an invited guest lecturer for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute (part of the State Department; has been renamed the National Foreign Affairs Training Center) providing tailored lectures to US diplomats departing for Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, and Bulgaria. In November 2023 and 2025 she was the keynote speaker at the international conference "Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication" and taught courses as guest lecturer at the Romanian-American University in Bucharest. She recently filmed in Hollywood as an expert historian on A&E's The History Channel "History's Greatest Mysteries" TV series hosted by Laurence Fishburne.
Bejan contributed 64 articles to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933 -1945, Vol. 3. In 2019 she published her first book Intellectuals and Fascism in Romania: The Criterion Association (Palgrave Macmillan) and she has started work on two research projects entitled: "Victims of Colonialism - Africa and the Holocaust" and "The Romanian National Theatre Under Totalitarianism". Bejan's 16 research languages are English, French, German, Romanian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Dutch, Flemish, and South Pacific pidgin and she is always discovering new ones. Now living in Paris and professionally affiliated with the Sorbonne, she has embarked on writing her next book as historian: The Unknown Holocaust: Axis crimes & memory in Africa, France, and Romania. A proud graduate of Wadham College, University of Oxford's college known for Human Rights advocacy, Dr. Bejan is passionate about Equal Rights and Access to Education. Her Oxford degrees were fully funded by Rhodes and Fulbright Scholarships and many grants.
Courses Taught
The Holocaust: Romania, France and Colonial Contexts (Africa)
History of Modern Europe
History of the Islamic World
USA History since 1865
20th Century European History
History of Germany WWI - WWII
World History before 1500 (Ancient)
World History after 1500 (Modern)
The Enlightenment
The Failure of Liberalism and the Rise of Dictatorship in 20th C Romania
Romanian Cultural Greats of the 20th Century
Honors Program - Honors Thesis Supervisor (Holocaust Education)
Theatre History & Criticism I
Staging Cultures: Theatre, Drama, and Multiculturalism
June 10, 2009, bejan lost her colleague and friend STEPHEN Tyrone JohnS to a VIOLent Hate Crime committed at her workplace in Washington DC. Every professional decision she has made since has been to honor his memory and fight Hate in all its Evil dimensions. Love you & miss you, sTEPHEN.
ALL BOOKS by Dr. Cristina A. Bejan
Oxford University Alumni FEATURE Author - The author's books are widely available in libraries including the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. For those in PARIS, please order Bejan's books at Shakespeare & Co. and Red Wheelbarrow. In ROMANIA Bejan's books can be purchased nationally in bookstores (e.g. Cărturești and Humanitas) and online. In NYC, find Bejan's plays at Drama Book Shop. In ASPEN, COLORADO Bejan's books can be ordered at Explore Books and Coffee. For the DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA community, you can purchase Bejan's books at The Regulator. For the DENVER, COLORADO community, you can find Bejan's books in local bookstores, such as Tattered Cover, West Side Books and Petals & Pages. All books can be ordered online (e.g. Amazon) and at a discount and signed directly from author CRISTINA A. BEJAN via email: info@cristinaabejan.com. Madame Bejan is grateful for the interest and support.
