Graduate Program

Roland Clark

Fields:

European history
Gender, Ethnicity, Race and Religion
Twentieth century Eastern Europe

PhD research topic:

My doctoral dissertation examines the formation of supportive communities within and around fascist social movements. I focus on the community formed by the rank and file members and sympathizers of one of the largest and most enduring fascist movements in interwar Europe, the Legion of the Archangel Michael, to see how rank-and-file fascists created first a community and then a distinctive subculture in the absence of a centralized regime.

Teaching experience:

Stand alone courses:
East European Civilization (Spring & Summer 2009)

Teaching Assistant:
Western Civilization 2 (2008)
Soviet Russia (2008)
Introduction to Islamic Civilization (2007)
Western Civilization 1 (2007)
East European Civilization (2006)

Conference Presentations:

'The Ladies of the Legion: Women in Romanian Fascist Communities,' Institute of East European History Conference, Vienna, 2011.

'Anti-Masonry as Political Protest: Fascist Attitudes to Freemasonry in Interwar Romania,' Canonbury Masonic Research Centre Conference, London, 2010.

'Regional Cooperation According to Interwar Romanian Nationalists,' The Balkans and the Caucasus Symposium, New Europe College, Bucharest, 2010.

'Love Thy Neighbour: International Cooperation in the Early Thought of Dumitru Stăniloae,' Orthodox Christianity in Europe Conference, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2010.

'Conversion Accounts and Religious Frames in Romanian Fascist Biographies', Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Convention, Boston, 2009.

Publications:

'Collective Singing in Romanian Fascism,' Cultural and Social History (Forthcoming).

'Anti-Masonry as Political Protest: Fascists and Freemasons in Interwar Romania,' Patterns of Prejudice (Forthcoming).

'New Models, New Questions: Historiographical Approaches to the Romanian Holocaust,' European Historical Review (Forthcoming).

Nationalism, Ethnotheology and Mysticism in Interwar Romania, Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, No. 2002, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2009.

Fellowships, Awards:

Lillian B. Lawler Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2011-2012)

Council on Library and Information Resources Mellon Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities in Original Sources (2010-2011)

Cultural Studies Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (declined – 2010-2011)

Andrew Mellon Research Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2009-2010)

Arts and Sciences Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (2005)

Department of History