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Cristina Florea is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University, specializing in Central and Eastern Europe and the Habsburg Empire's successor states. Her research focuses on cultural migration and citizenship, comparative and transnational empires and colonialism, and the impact of imperial legacies on modern European history. Florea's work employs a global transnational perspective to investigate how local politics and society are affected by larger geopolitical processes. She is currently writing a book titled 'Crossroads Empire: Revolutions, Encounters, and Frontiers in Europe,' which examines the small East European borderland of Bukovina over centuries of shifting imperial influence from the Austrian Empire to the Soviet Union. Additionally, Florea's intellectual biography of Joseph Roth explores the complexities of identity and history in the Habsburg Empire's afterlife. She teaches various courses on East European and Soviet history, as well as World War II and interwar Europe.
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