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
As a history professor, Bejan has taught at Georgetown University (as the Ion Rațiu Teaching Fellow), Duke University, UNC-Greensboro, Wake Technical Community College and is now affiliate faculty at Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver) in the History and Theatre Departments. 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, and Bulgaria.
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 projects entitled The Romanian National Theatre Under Totalitarianism and Victims of Colonialism - Africa and the Holocaust. Bejan's research languages include: English, French, German, Romanian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Yiddish, Dutch, Flemish, and South Pacific pidgin. Inspired by her MSU Denver students, Bejan is currently studying spoken Spanish.
Courses Taught
Staging Cultures: Theatre, Drama, and Multiculturalism
Theatre History & Criticism I
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
