Maria Bucur, an assistant professor at Indiana University, holds the John W. Hill Chair in East European History. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, she is the co-editor, with Nancy Wingfield, of Staging the Past: the Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present.

Original, theoretically innovative, vividly written and well-constructed. Thanks to Maria Bucur's path-breaking work, students of Eastern Europe will better understand the immense complexities of Romania's (and the whole region's) espousal of liberal modernity.

Maria Bucur, an assistant professor at Indiana University, holds the John W. Hill Chair in East European History. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, she is the co-editor, with Nancy Wingfield, of Staging the Past: the Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present.

Original, theoretically innovative, vividly written and well-constructed. Thanks to Maria Bucur's path-breaking work, students of Eastern Europe will better understand the immense complexities of Romania's (and the whole region's) espousal of liberal modernity.

Maria Bucur, an assistant professor at Indiana University, holds the John W. Hill Chair in East European History. The recipient of numerous grants and awards, she is the co-editor, with Nancy Wingfield, of Staging the Past: the Politics of Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present.

Original, theoretically innovative, vividly written and well-constructed. Thanks to Maria Bucur's path-breaking work, students of Eastern Europe will better understand the immense complexities of Romania's (and the whole region's) espousal of liberal modernity.