Dr. Cristina Teodora Stoica

Professional Background

Cristina Teodora Stoica received her PhD from Western University in 2024. She holds a master’s degree in European and Eurasian studies and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Stoica’s research explores the driving forces of antiziganism and the means through which they violently manifested in Romanian society from the unification of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldova in 1859 to the end of World War II in 1945. Her most recent peer-reviewed article, “Objections to Deportations: Non-violent and clandestine protests to Roma deportations to Transnistria,” provides a micro analysis of Romani agency in protesting Romanian state-sponsored deportations to Transnistria.

Dr. Stoica is not only deeply invested in forging new connections and opening cross-disciplinary avenues for research and pedagogy, she is also committed to building relationships with a diverse and interdisciplinary community of educators. To foster these relationships, she has participated in pedagogical training seminars at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University’s (HEFNU) Regional Institute and Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization.

Fellowship Research

While at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Broadening Academia Initiative Hybrid Fellow, Cristina Teodora Stoica will examine how Roma from northern Transylvania were organized, persecuted, and deported to killing centers in Nazi-occupied Poland. The project moves away from the perception of mass violence as an explosion of violence and brutality toward a more developed understanding of how societies violently target and suppress individuals deemed “dangerous,” “unwanted” and “the other.” Taking a “bottom-up” approach to studying mass violence, her project uses oral history to construct a comprehensive narrative of the group’s experience under Nazi rule and speaks to broader themes of how minorities are classified and labeled, as well as the policies used to persecute and remove victim groups.

Fellowship Period: November 1, 2025 – April 30, 2026