Dr. Stefan Ionescu

Dr. Stefan Ionescu

Associate Professor
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Department of History
Education:
University of Bucharest, Bachelor of Laws
Central European University, Master of Arts
Clark University, Ph.D.

Biography

Stefan Ionescu is currently an Associate Research Fellow at the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, at Chapman University. Ionescu holds a Ph.D. in history from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He holds an M.A. from the Department of History at Central European History in Budapest, Hungary and an M.A. from the Goren Goldstein Center for Hebrew Studies at the University of Bucharest.  He earned an LLB from the Law School of the University of Bucharest.  He is the author of articles in such journals as Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History and Culture and Psychology.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

Legal Tools instead of Weapons: Jewish Resistance to the Romanianization of Urban Real Estate and Businesses during the Antonescu Regime,“ in Patrick Henry (ed.). Jewish Resistance to the Nazis (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2014).
¨”Bystanders’ attitudes towards the Jews during the Antonescu Regime 1940-1944: Revisiting the Diaries of Holocaust Survivors from Romania,” Holocaust: Studii si Cercetari, no. 6 (2013).