Finalist for the 2021 MSU Denver Faculty Senate Teaching Award

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"Your passion for your discipline and your desire to share that passion with your students [is] obvious ... You are truly an inspiring professor."

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- 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.