New book: Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe
About the author:
Dr. Anca Cretu is a historian of modern Europe working at the intersection of the history of east-central Europe and international history. She joined the History Department and the GHCC in 2024 as an Assistant professor in Modern European History.
Congratulations!
New publication by GHCC member! Congratulations to assistant profesor Dr. Anca Cretu, whose edited volume Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe: Local, national and international perspectives has just been published!
Humanitarian mobilization in Central and Eastern Europe
This volume, edited by Anca and Michal Frank (Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe) explores modern humanitarianism from different perspectives.Published by Manchester University Press, this volume gathers 10 authors reconstructing the perspectives of actors at different scales, from local to global. In doing so, they challenge the unidirectional, asymmetrical perspective that has often limited analysis of humanitarianism.
Anca's previous monograph Foreign Aid and State-building in Interwar Romania was published in 2024 with Stanford University Press. You can read some of her thoughts around global history as an approach and her own research topics in our previous blog post: East-Central Europe and Global Histories: An Ambiguous Relationship (For Now).
Available from Manchester University Press (November 2025)