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- Senior Lecturer
- SSEES
- UCL SLASH
1983 Magdalen College, Oxford, BA (Hons.) Modern History
1992 School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, MA Central and East European History
1998 University of London, PhD 'Romanian Policy towards Germany, 1936-1940'


My research focus is on the history of the Romanians and the Romanian state. In the last few years I have published a number of articles on the Romanian Legionary Movement. Most recently, I co-edited a book entitled In the Shadow of Hitler: Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe published by IB Tauris. I am continuing to work on various aspect of the history of the Romanian Legionary Movement and on the histories of Romania and the Republic of Moldova.
Recent MPhil/PhD supervision topics include: 'The impact of Christian Orthodoxy on the doctrine of the Iron Guard' and 'The Role of Anti-semitism in the Ideology of the Legion of the Archangel Michael’.
I teach the postgraduate course:
'Little Hitlers? Right Radicalism in Central and Eastern Europe, 1900-1945'
and the following undergraduate courses:
'History of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1700-1918'
'Successors to the Habsburgs: East-Central Europe, 1914-1945'
'From Dacians to Democrats: Themes in Romanian History'
'Fascism and Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe, 1918-1945'.