Igor Cașu

Igor Cașu (born 8 October 1973) is a historian from the Republic of Moldova.

Early life and education

Igor Cașu was born on October 8, 1973, in Borogani, district Comrat, now in Leova. He studied history for three years at the State University of Moldova and then transferred to University of Iași, where he graduated with an MA in history in 1995 and subsequently defended his PhD at the same university – University of Iași - in 2000. The subjects of his Ph.D. were Soviet nationalities and politics in Moldavia from 1944 to 1989.

Career In the 2000 fall semester, he was Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina, teaching courses on Balkan history and politics in the 20th century.

He contributed in 2006 to the Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania as an expert on the former Moldavian SSR.

Igor Cașu has also been deputy Chair of the Commission for the Analysis of the Totalitarian Communist Regime in the Republic of Moldova, designated by Presidential Decree signed by the Acting President of Moldova, Mihai Ghimpu.

In October 2010, he became (founding) Director of the Center for the Study of Totalitarianism at the Faculty of History and Philosophy, State University of Moldova in Chişinău. He contributed for Radio Free Europe (2010–2011), Romanian-language section. as well as to Romanian daily Adevărul (2010-2014), Chişinău edition.

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