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.
Bucharest Inside the Beltway
Bucharest Inside the Beltway is a Romanian and American arts and culture platform. In December 2013 BiB was born in Washington DC. BiB was officially launched at the Romanian Embassy to the United States June 2014 and then launched in Romania in Carol 53 October of 2014. BiB then produced sold-out shows in Washington DC in the Capital Fringe Festival, DC Black Theatre Festival and the Source Theatre, hosted Romanian dancer Paul Cimpoieru at the DC Goethe Institute and organized a spoken word poetry evening at Carol 53 in Bucharest, among many other cultural events. BiB launched in Denver, Colorado on December 10, 2021 with the international RADIANCE new play showcase, generated out of the competitive virtual playwrights residency led by award-winning Romanian-Filipina-American playwright Amanda L. Andrei (MFA USC). In July 2025 BiB relocated to Paris, E.U. and continues to collaborate with local and international artists to continue to celebrate and be inspired by "the fearlessness of Bucharest." BiB is currently on a SOCIAL MEDIA PAUSE.
Cristina A. Bejan serves as BiB Founding Executive Director (Paris), Rucsandra Pop as BiB Founding Artistic Director (Bucharest) and Ivo Iacob (Timișoara) as BiB Creative Producer. BiB has had professional collaborations with the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York, the Romanian Embassy to the United States, Wheatridge Theatre Company, and Theater29 Denver, in addition to working with local and international artists on a daily basis. Please visit: bucharestinsidethebetlway.com & @bucharestinsidethebeltway (FB) & @bucharestinsidethebeltway (IG) & Bucharest Inside the Beltway (LinkedIn). Bejan and Pop firmly believe in the power of arts and culture to uplift humanity and co-founded BiB for precisely this purpose.
