BIOGRAPHY
I am a native Texan, born in Houston and raised in Humble, and a graduate of Humble High School. I earned a BA in English from the University of St Thomas in Houston. I served two years in the Peace Corps, in a little town in southeast Transylvania, Romania. Upon completion of my Peace Corps service, I studied at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, where I completed an MA in Cultural Studies. Since then I have earned an MSt in Historical Research at the University of Oxford, St Antony's College. I have remained at Oxford to pursue a PhD in Modern History. During the academic year 2006–7 I was supported by a Fulbright student grant for research in Budapest, Hungary. Over the 2007–8 academic year I have continued my research in Romania, funded by a Dissertation Research Fellowship in Southeast European Studies, from the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2009 I will undertake an International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX/IARO) predoctoral fellowship for research in Romania and Macedonia.
I have taught Intro to Humanities (HUMA 1301 & 1302) for North Harris and Kingwood since 2003. My research interests include east European culture and history, with a focus on Romania and Hungary; biopolitics and population-transfer schemes during the interwar period and WWII; and the construciton of national historical narratives of ethnic minority communities.
Selected Publications:"The Csangos Refashioned: History and Plight of a Contested Ethnic Minority in Interwar Romania," in Tudor Georgescu and R Chris Davis (eds), Ethnic Minorities in Interwar Romania: Identities in Flux (forthcoming, 2009).
"Rescue and Recovery: The Biopolitics and Ethnogenealogy of Moldavian Catholics in 1940s Romania" in Ilyés, et al. (eds), Local and Transnational Csángó Lifeworlds (2008): 95–111.
"Restocking the Ethnic Homeland: Ideological and Strategic Motives behind Hungary's Hazatelepítés Schemes during WWII (and the Unintended Consequences)," Regio, vol. 10 (2007): 155–74.
"Poland's Security in the Transatlantic Relationship" in Landsford and Tashev (eds), Old Europe, New Europe, and the US, Ashgate Publishing (2005): 193–218.
"Poland's Security and Its International Dimensions," Politeja 1 (2004): 12–29.I have forthcoming papers on clericalism, biopolitics, and ethnic mobilization in interwar and wartime Romania and Hungary.
For more info on my work, see my other academic homepage at http://oxford.academia.edu/ChrisDavis