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

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As a history professor, Bejan has taught at Georgetown University (as the Ion Rațiu Teaching Fellow), Duke University, UNC-Greensboro, and Wake Technical Community College. After four years of teaching history and theatre at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Bejan has joined the University of Denver in a teaching and research capacity, with a focus in her area of expertise: the Holocaust. She has presented her research at numerous international conferences. Her writing and research interests include totalitarianism and genocide in Europe, South Asia and Africa. Prior to committing to a career in teaching, Bejan worked as a researcher at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for three years. She has been an invited guest lecturer for the Foreign Service Institute since 2016, providing tailored lectures to US diplomats departing for Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, and Bulgaria. In November 2023 she was the keynote conference speaker and guest lecturer at the Romanian-American University in Bucharest.