Before starting at the University of Pittsburgh, I earned my BA in History, International Studies, and French at Indiana University (2013), after which I went on to complete an interdisciplinary MA in European Studies (2015) at the same institution. Currently, I am completing my dissertation, " National in Difference: Primary Schooling, Citizen-Subjects, and Imperial Notions in Romanian-Administered Dobruja, 1878-1920," which explores the imperial legacies structuring the relationship between the new Romanian nation-state and the many ethno-confessional groups in Dobruja, an incredibly diverse maritime region long caught at the crossroads of imperial and national rivalries. My side interests include the history of public hygiene and global food history.
Committee:
Dr. Gregor Thum (Advisor)
Dr. James Pickett
Dr. Pernille Røge
Dr. Ben Eklof (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN)
Fields:
East Central Europe
The Balkans
Russian Empire
Education
Borderlands
Nationalism
State Building
Global Food History
Public Health
Representative Publications
Fumurescu, Ana. “Nurturing a ‘Great Social Organism’: School Hygiene, Body Politics, and the State in Late Imperial Russia.” History of Education Quarterly 62, no. 1 (2022): 61–83. doi:10.1017/heq.2021.58. [Peer Reviewed]
Fumurescu, Ana. “It Takes a Village: Raising Patriots in Nineteenth-Century Romania.” In Nineteenth-Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives, eds. Baxter, Jane Eva, and Meredith A. B Ellis, Vol. 6 (Havertown: Oxbow Books, Limited, 2018). [Peer Reviewed]
Teaching Experience:
HIST 1084: Food and History (Instructor of Record, Pitt, Summer 2021 & 2022)
HIST 0187: World War II in Europe (Grader, Pitt, Spring 2022)
HIST 0200 East Central Europe (Instructor of Record, Pitt, Summer 2019)
HIST 1638: Native American Traditional Cultures (Teaching Fellow, Pitt, Spring 2019)
HIST 1649: Antisemitism Then and Now: Perspectives After Tree of Life (Teaching Fellow, Pitt, Spring 2019)
HIST 0301: Imperial Russia to 1917 (Teaching Fellow, Pitt, Fall 2018)
HIST 1376: The United States to 1877 (Teaching Assistant, University of Houston, Fall 2015-Spring 2017)