Professor Dennis Deletant

Professor of Romanian Studies

Dennis Deletant Email
d.deletant@ssees.ucl.ac.uk

Phone Number
020 7679 8816

Fax
020 7679 8722

I am Professor of Romanian Studies at SSEES, and at the University of Amsterdam (on secondment). As a graduate of SSEES I studied on a British Council postgraduate scholarship for nine months in 1969, and thereafter visited Romania frequently until 1988 when I was declared persona non grata as a result of my adverse comments on the Ceausescu regime in the British publishing and broadcasting media. In 1990, I acted as co-organizer of the British Book Appeal in aid of Central University Library in Bucharest - damaged by fire during the Romanian revolution in December 1989 - which assembled 400,000 volumes for despatch between January and April 1990 and in the same year I was invited to join the advisory board of the British government's Know-How Fund. I was actively involved in the Romanian and Moldovan aspects of its work until the board was dissolved in 1999; for this service I was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1995. Between 2000 and 2001 I was Rosenzweig Family Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and in December 2002 I was appointed a Senior Research Scholar of the Cold War International History Project, funded by the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC. My study of the regime of Marshal Ion Antonescu (1941-1944) was published in London in 2006.

Research Interests
Romanian history from 1250; Marshal Ion Antonescu (1940-44); Party, politics and literature in Romania, 1944-1989; Romanian current affairs.

Teaching and supervision
Romanian literature (BA)

Current Research

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