Daniel Brett – Curriculum Vitae Indiana University Department of History Ballantine Hall, 742 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN 47405 dcbrett@indiana.edu 812-855-8036 Qualifications: 2012: PhD in Social Sciences (University of London) 2001: MA Central and South East European Studies (University College London) 1999: BA (Hons) Politics 2.1 (University of the West of England, Bristol) Professional Experience: 2013- Present Visiting Lecturer in East European History (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA) Member of International Relations Course writing team (Open University) 2013 Visiting Lecturer in History (St Mary’s University College London) 2012-2013 Teaching Fellow in Governing Divided Societies (UCL School of Public Policy) 2012 Referee for ‘Problems of Post-Communism’ 2011-2012 Research Fellow (New Europe College, Bucharest) 2010-2011 Research Assistant for Professor Dennis Deletant (SSEES, UCL) 2010 – Present Associate Lecturer Social Sciences (Open University) 2008-2009 Teaching Fellow in Comparative Politics (SSEES, UCL) 2002-2010 Postgraduate Teaching Assistant (SSEES, UCL) Postgraduate Teaching: ‘Governing Divided Societies’ (MA) ‘Proseminar in Russian and East European Area Studies’ (MA) MA Dissertation Supervision Undergraduate Teaching: A World of Whose Making? Economics, International Relations and Globalisation (Level Three) Comparative Politics (3rd year) Reform, Reaction, Rebellion and Revolution: The Habsburg Monarchy 1701-1921 (300 Level) Eastern Europe since 1945 (300 Level and 3rd year) Secret Police and Transitional Justice in Europe, Latin America and Africa (Intensive Writing – 300 Level) A World Transformed: Nationalism, Empires, War, Revolution and Social Change 1900-1930 (Intensive Writing – 300 Level) Politics and Society in Eastern Europe (2nd year) Revolutions in the Twentieth Century (200 Level) Power, Equality and Dissent: Understanding Contemporary Politics (Level Two) Introduction to Politics (1st year) Seminars in History: Historical Approaches and Methods (1st year) Publications Books: ‘Peasants and Politics: Rural Society in Europe and Latin America (forthcoming 2016) ‘A concise history of Romania’ with Marin,I, I.B.Tauris, (forthcoming 2015) Articles ‘Planning for an Unfulfilled Renaissance: The Peasant Parties in Exile and Proposals for the Future of Central and Eastern Europe 1942-1944’ (In preparation) ‘What was the Peasant Party? Rural Society and political organization in Central and Eastern Europe 1918-1947’ (In preparation) Book Chapters ‘Romania’ in Central and East European Politics: From Communism to Democracy eds Sharon L. Wolchik and Jane L. Curry, Rowman Littlefield, (Forthcoming 2014) ‘Normal politics in a normal country? Comparing Agrarian Party organization in Romania, Sweden and Poland before 1947’ in New Europe College Yearbook 2011-2012, eds Andrei Plesu and Anca Oreavanu ‘Taking the long view? Polish and Romanian Agrarianism in Comparison: A Conceptual Framework’ in Transforming Rural Societies: Agrarian Property and Agrarianism in East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Eds. Dietmar Müller and Angela Harre, Vienna: Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes, 2010 ‘Back to the Future? The revival of Radical Movements in Poland and Romania since 1989’ in The New Central European Culture. Eds. S.Totosy de Zepetnek, C.Andras, and M.Marsovszky Aachen: Shaker Verlag, 2006 ‘Maniu through the Looking Glass. British Perceptions of Iuliu Maniu: The Seton-Watsons and Maniu’ in In and Out of Focus - Romania and Britain: Relations and Perspectives from 1930 to the Present. Ed. D. Deletant, Bucharest, British Council, Cavallioti, 2005, pp. 59-71 Edited volumes - Brett, D. and Marin, I., eds ‘Agents or Objects? Rethinking the History of Bessarabia / Moldova’ I.B.Tauris, Forthcoming 2015 - Brett, D. and Jarvis, C. and Marin, I., eds. (2008) Four empires and an enlargement: States, Societies and individuals: transfiguring perspectives and images of Central and Eastern Europe. Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe (4). School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL, London, UK. ISBN 9780903425803 Fellowships/Grants 2011-2012 Research Fellow (New Europe College, Bucharest) 2007 Erasmus Grant to carry out research at Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Research Projects 2007-2011 - a member of the ‘Agrarismus in Ostmitteleuropa 1890 – 1950’ research team involved in a four-year academic project based at Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt, Germany 2006- present - joint coordinator with Professor Dennis Deletant of the ‘Romanian-Moldovan Research Group’ http://www.ssees.ac.uk/romanian-moldovanstudies.htm. Recent Conference Participation: ‘Normal Politics in a Normal Country? Agarian Party Organization before 1947 – the case of Romania, Poland, Sweden and Denmark.’ Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania, 2012 International Congress on Romanian Studies, 2-4th July 2012 ‘Coming in from the cold? The transformation of parties and rural politics’ Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, ‘Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe: before, after, in the process?’ 4th-5th March 2011 ‘în Bucuresti pe stânga: Archives, Archivists, Arguments and Photocopiers’ University College London, London, ‘2nd CEELBAS Workshop on Research Ethics and the Practicalities of doing fieldwork in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe’, 30th November 2010 ‘Modernising Yourself Out of a Job. Administrative Charisma, Social Transformation and Grassroots Peasantism’ Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, ‘New Perspectives on Modern Romania’, 10th – 11th July 2008 ‘The Romanian Party system as a stumbling block to Reform? Presidential Impeachment and Electoral Reform’ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, The Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Conference, May-June, 2008 Referees: Professor Padraic Kenney Indiana University Department of History Ballantine Hall, 742 1020 E. Kirkwood Ave. Bloomington, IN 47405 pjkenney@indiana.edu Professor Dennis Deletant (PhD Supervisor) Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies School of Foreign Service Georgetown University Box 571031, ICC 304A Washington DC 20057-1031 djd68@georgetown.edu Dr Sherrill Stroschein School of Public Policy, University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT s.stroschein@ucl.ac.uk