Faculty and Staff
Keith Hitchins
Professor of History
Keith Hitchins is Professor of History at the University of Illinois and specializes in Southeastern Europe, Romania, Transylvania, the Kurds, Central Asia, and nationalism. Among his more recent books are Rumania, 1866-1947, in the Oxford History of Modern Europe series (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), The Romanians, 1774-1866 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), A Nation Discovered: Romanian Intellectuals in Transylvania and the Idea of Nation, 1700-1848 (Bucharest: Encyclopaedic Publishing House, 1999), and A Nation Affirmed: The Romanian National Movement in Transylvania, 1860-1914 (Bucharest: Encyclopaedic Publishing House, 1999). He has also written on Kurdish and Tajik literature and the Jadid movement in Central Asia and is the editor of the Journal of Kurdish Studies. He is currently at work on a “History of Southeastern Europe, 1352-1807,” for the Oxford History of Early Modern Europe, and “A Concise History of Romania” for Cambridge University Press. He has a Ph.D from Harvard University and holds honorary degrees from the universities of Cluj, Sibiu, Alba Iulia, Târgu Mureş, and Timişoara in Romania. He is an honorary member of the Romanian Academy.