
Cristina Florea is a historian of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, specializing in Eastern and Central European history, including the history of modern Germany and the Habsburg Monarchy and successor states, at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is currently writing a book on competing forms of sovereignty and cultural transformation projects in the multinational province of Bukovina, titled Where the Ground Never Stood Still: Cultural Revolutions and Nostalgias at the Eastern Frontiers of Europe. Florea completed her PhD at Princeton University and is currently an Academy Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International and Area Studies at Harvard University.