Abstract:
Eduard Baidaus graduated with distinction from the Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University in Chisinau in 1990. He then taught at this university until 2006 when he immigrated to Canada. Baidaus earned a doctoral degree from the Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of Moldova in 1995. His disserta-tion “Political Relations of Moldavia with Poland-Lithuania and Muscovy dur-ing the Reign of Vasile Lupu 1634-1653” focused on international relations in the early-modern Eastern Europe and the Balkans. More recently, in 2017, he earned a PhD from the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta. His dissertation “Nation-Building and Separatism in Eastern Europe: The Transnis-tria Problem in Moldova and in the Geopolitics of Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and the European Union (1917-2014)” investigated problems of identity construction, state-building, and separatism. Dr. Baidaus specializes in the history of Imperial Russia, Soviet Union and post-Soviet states, and Romania and Moldova. He au-thored a number of books and articles, and held fellowships in Poland, Russia, Hungary, Ukraine, Unites States, Egypt, Canada, and Romania. As a faculty member, he has held teaching appointments in Moldova and in the United States. Currently, he lives and teaches history, global studies, and history of science and technology in Canada.
