Alex Drace-Francis

​Dr. Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the European Studies program of the University of Amsterdam. Drace-Francis has published widely on the modern social and cultural history of Romania and southeastern Europe, including topics such as literacy, travel, food and cultural identities in a comparative European context. He has also lived in Merseyside for over two decades and formerly taught modern history at the University of Liverpool.