Chris Davis

Mr Chris Davis received a BA degree in English from the University of St Thomas, in Houston, Texas (1999) and an MA in Central and East European Studies from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland (2004). He is currently a PhD candidate in Modern History at the University of Oxford, St Antony's College. Chris has been the recipient of a number of research fellowships, including a Fulbright Student grant (2006 - 2007), an American Councils of Learned Societies dissertation research fellowship (2007 - 2008), and an International Research and Exchanges (IREX) advanced research grant (2008 - 2009). Chris works on ethnic and religious minorities in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, with a focus on identity shifts, the construction of historical narratives, clericalism, biopolitics, and population transfers.

Prior to his graduate studies, Chris taught high-school English in the US and then served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in Romania (2000 - 2002). He currently lives in Bucharest, where he is writing up his dissertation. In addition to this, Chris writes a blog, works as a freelance journalist and copyeditor for a business magazine in Bucharest, and teaches history and humanities courses online for a small college in the US.