Cristina Florea
Historian and assistant professor of modern European history at Cornell University, specializing in Central and Eastern Europe and author of Bukovina: The Life and Death of an East European Borderland.
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Mar 22, 2026 • 1h 31min
#484 - Borderlands of Bukovina: A Dialogue with Cristina Florea
Cristina Florea, historian and Cornell professor specializing in Central and Eastern Europe, discusses Bukovina as a contested imperial borderland. She covers its Habsburg origins, multilingual and multiethnic makeup, shifting 20th-century borders and populations, the Orthodox Church’s role, wartime upheavals and postwar divisions, and contemporary debates over identity, migration, and regional politics.
