UNIGR-FELLOW 2024/25
Adelina Stefan is a historian of tourism and consumption during the Cold War with a particular focus on socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain. She gained a PhD in history from the University of Pittsburgh, United States. She has been a Humanities Initiative Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest and has held positions at European University Institute in Florence and The Centre for Contemporary and Digital History at University of Luxembourg. Her latest book, Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain, has been published by Cornell University Press in December 2024.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Vacationing in Dictatorships: International Tourism in Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain. Cornell University Press, 2024. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501778513/vacationing-in-dictatorships/.
- “Fighting the Cold War on the Beach: East-West Encounters on the Romanian Black Sea Riviera Between the 1960s and the 1980s”. Journal of Tourism History 14 (2022): 123–143. https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182X.2022.2123052.
- “Unpacking Tourism in the Cold War: International Tourism and Commercialism in Socialist Romania, 1960s–1980s”. Contemporary European History 32, no. 3 (2022): 365–384. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777321000540.
- “Postcards Transfer Across the Iron Curtain: Foreign Tourists and Transcultural Exchanges in Socialist Romania during the 1960s and 1980s”. International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (HCM) 5, no. 1 (2018): 169–195.
- “‘They Even Gave Us Pork Cutlets for Breakfast’: Foreign Tourists and Eating-Out Practices in Socialist Romania During the 1960s and the 1980s”. In Consumption and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century, edited by Magdalena Eriksroed-Burger, Heidi Hein-Kircher, and Julia Malitska. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
- “Foreign Tourists and the Shadow Economy in Socialist Romania in the 1960s–1980s”. In Tourism and Travel During the Cold War: Negotiating Tourist Experiences Across the Iron Curtain, edited by Christian Noack and Sune Bechmann Pedersen. Routledge, 2019.
