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Keith Arnold Hitchins was an American historian and a professor of Eastern European history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Romania and its history.
Keith Hitchins
American historian member of the Romanian Academy
Keith Arnold Hitchins (April 2, 1931 – November 1, 2020) was an American historian and a professor of Eastern European history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Romania and its history.[1]
He was born in Schenectady, New York.[2][3] After graduating from Union College, he went to Harvard University, earning a Ph.D.
in history in 1964 under the direction of Robert Lee Wolff. After teaching for seven years at Wake Forest University and then for a short period at Rice University, he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois, where he spent the rest of his academic career.[1]
Hitchins wrote or edited more than 20 books, most related to Romania.[1] An honorary member of the Romanian Academy since 1991,[2][3] he was awarded the National Order of Merit by Romanian PresidentKlaus Iohannis.[4]
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