University of Oxford

Graduate Student, History

PhD Candidate in Modern History

St Antony's College

Thesis Title: Narrating the past: constructing a national history of the Moldavian Csangos

Supervisor: Prof. Robert Evans

About

I am a native Texan, born in Houston and raised in Humble, and a graduate of Humble High School. I earned a BA in English from the University of St Thomas in Houston. I served in the US Peace Corps from 2000–2 in Sfântu-Gheorghe/Sepsiszentgyörgy, Romania.

Upon completion of my Peace Corps service, I studied at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, completing an MA in Central and East European Studies. From 2003 I began teaching Humanities courses for the Lonestar College system in Houston. I then headed to the University of Oxford, St Antony's College, where I earned an MSt in Historical Research. I have remained at Oxford to pursue a PhD in Modern History.

During the academic year 2006–7 I was supported by a Fulbright student grant for research in Budapest, Hungary. Over the 2007–8 academic year I have continued my research in Romania, funded by a Dissertation Research Fellowship in Southeast European Studies, from the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2009 I was awarded an IREX/IARO predoctoral fellowship for research in Romania and Macedonia, as well as a bursary for foreign researchers from the Romanian Cultural Institute. For the 2009-10 academic year, I will be a fellow in the 'Regimes of Historicity' project at the Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS), Sofia.

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Telephone: +40728403665 in Romania