Keith Hitchins

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: Claredon Press, 1994), The Romanians, 1774-1866 (Oxford: Claredon Press, 1996), A Nation Discovered: Romanian Intellectuals in Transylvania and the Idea of a Nation, 1700-1848 (Bucharest: Encyclopaedic Publishing House...See more

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: Claredon Press, 1994), The Romanians, 1774-1866 (Oxford: Claredon Press, 1996), A Nation Discovered: Romanian Intellectuals in Transylvania and the Idea of a Nation, 1700-1848 (Bucharest: Encyclopaedic Publishing House, 1999). He is an honorary member of the Romanian Academy. See less