University of Pittsburgh

Faculty

Irina Livezeanu

Associate Professor
PhD, University of Michigan (1986)

University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3520 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7466
irinal@pitt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Field(s)

Modern Europe
Intellectual and Cultural History
Jewish History

 

Teaching

Eastern and Central Europe
Gender and Nationalism
Society and Politics in Modern East Central Europe
Modernization, Modernity and Modernism in the “Other Europe”
Modern East European Jewry


Selected Publications

Women & Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Volume I Southeastern and East Central Europe (with June Pachuta Farris), M.E. Sharpe, 2007

Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building, and Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930, Cornell 1995 & 2000

“’From Dada to Gaga’: The Peripatetic Romanian Avant-Garde Confronts Communism,”in Mihaï Dinu Gheorghiu with Lucia Dragomir, eds., Littératures et pouvoir symbolique. Bucharest: Paralela 45, 2005, pp. 239- 253

“Generational Politics and the Philosophy of Culture: Lucian Blaga between Tradition and Modernism,” in Austrian History Yearbook, vol. 33 (2002): 207-237


Honors/Awards

Senior Fellowship, Collegium Budapest (2002)

International Studies Fellowship, Kluge Center, Library of Congress (2001)

National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Grant (2001)

American Philosophical Society Fellowship (2000)

Heldt Book Prize from the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (1995)

American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences book award (1995)

Project(s)

Routledge HISTORY OF EAST CENTRAL EUROPE SINCE 1700

The New Generation and the Avant-Garde: Ideas, Art and Politics in Romania, 1916-1947