Cristina A. Bejan, DPhil (Oxon) is an award-winning Romanian-American historian, theatre artist, and poet. A Rhodes and Fulbright scholar, she has had fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the Wilson Center and Georgetown University. She has taught at five universities and one community college, and currently researches and teaches at the University of Denver. Bejan has authored three books with more on the way. Bejan received her Masters and DPhil (PhD) in Modern History from the University of Oxford and her BA in Philosophy (Honors) from Northwestern University, where she also studied theatre. While a researcher for USHMM, she authored 64 articles on camps in Africa and Europe for the “Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos – Vol. 3.” Bejan has written 19 plays and performs her spoken word poetry under her stage name Lady Godiva. Her creative work has appeared in the US, UK, Romania and Vanuatu. Bejan runs the arts and culture platform Bucharest Inside the Beltway (BiB), based in Denver, CO.
