Dr. Stefan Cristian Ionescu

Associate Professor

History, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Education:: University of Bucharest, Bachelor of Laws
Central European University, Master of Arts
Clark University, Ph.D.

Biography

Stefan Cristian Ionescu is currently the Leon and Sophie Weinstein Associate Professor in Holocaust History and the Associate Director of the Rodgers Center of Holocaust Education, History Department, Chapman University. He held teaching and research positions at several academic institutions, including Northwestern University and Uppsala University. He is the author of several book chapters and articles in such journals as Central European History; Eastern European Holocaust Studies; Holocaust and Genocide Studies; Nationalities Papers; Journal of Genocide Research; Holocaust Studies: A Journal of History and Culture; Yad Vashem Studies; Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, and Culture and Psychology. His academic interests cover European modern history, Holocaust and genocide studies, transitional justice, and minority studies. Ionescu authored two books: “Jewish Resistance to ‘Romanianization,’ 1940-1944 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)” and “Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950” (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania: Rebuilding Jewish Lives and Communities, 1944-1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024).; “The Rise and Fall of an Aryanization Bank: The Romanian Loan Institute, 1941-1951,” in Rory Yeomans (ed.), A Marketplace Without Jews: Aryanization and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe (London: Routledge, November 2024). ISBN 9781032767444.; “Aryanization Bureaucrats in Post-Holocaust Romania,” Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, Vol. 31 (2023): 92-108. http://dx.doi.org/10.12946/rg31/092-108; “Politics of Holocaust Memory in Communist and Post-Communist Romania: On Jewish Communist Survivor Matei Gall’s Multiple Life Stories,” co-author: Dr. Dana Mihailescu, Yad Vashem Studies, Vol. 51, No. 1 (2023): 119-145.; “The International Struggle of Romanian Jewry for Holocaust Restitution, 1944–1948,” Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, Vol. 16, Issue 2 (2022). DOI: 10.1080/23739770.2022.2118443; “Jewish Humanitarian Aid for Transnistrian Deportees, 1941-44,” in Jan Lanicek and Jan Lambertz (eds.), Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2022).; Jewish Resistance to ‘Romanianization,’ 1940-1944 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).; “Perceptions of Legality during the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944,” Journal of Romanian Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2020): 53-80. https://doi.org/10.3828/jrns.2020.2.2.03; “Debates on the Restitution of Romanianized Property During the Antonescu Regime, 19401-944,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 34, No. 1 (2020): 45-62. https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcaa004; “Theorists of Economic Nationalism in 1930s-1940s Romania,” Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Vol. 47 No. 2 (2019): 264-279. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2018.4; “Loyal Citizens or Dangerous Stateless Refugees? The ‘Armenian Question’ in World War II Romania, 1940-44,” Journal of Genocide Research, Vol. 19, No. 3 (2017): 318-339. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2017.1291001.; “‘Californian’ Colonists versus Local Profiteers? The Competition for Jewish Property during the Economic Colonization of Bukovina, 1941-1943,” Yad Vashem Studies, Vol. 44, No. 2 (2016): 121-145.; “The Restitution of Jewish Jobs in the Aftermath of the Antonescu Regime,” in Thomas Kühne and Mary Jane Rein (eds.), Agency and the Holocaust (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).; “Legal Resistance through Petitions During the Holocaust: The Strategies of Romanian Jewish Leader Wilhelm Filderman, 1940-44,” in Wolf Gruner and Thomas Pegelow Kaplan (eds.), Resisting Persecution: Jews and their Petitions during the Holocaust (NYC: Berghahn Books, 2020).; Legal Tools instead of Weapons: Jewish Resistance to the Romanianization of Urban Real Estate and Businesses during the Antonescu Regime,“ in Patrick Henry (ed.). Jewish Resistance to the Nazis (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014).; ¨”Bystanders’ attitudes towards the Jews during the Antonescu Regime 1940-1944: Revisiting the Diaries of Holocaust Survivors from Romania,” Holocaust: Studii si Cercetari, no. 6 (2013).

Dr. Stefan Cristian Ionescu

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