Director of the Project: Dr. Habilitation Claudia-Florentina Dobre

Claudia-Florentina DOBRE has conducted research on politics of memory in Romania and Bulgaria, on the memory of communist political violence in Romania, on museums, memorials and monuments in Romania and Bulgaria, on women's memory and everyday life in Romania and in Central and Eastern Europe, and has published extensively on these topics in important academic journals and books. Furthermore, Dobre disseminated her findings through international academic conferences and workshops (90 to this day), and through publishing 5 books as an author/co-author and (co)-editing 5 books and 5 academic journals issues, but also in mass-media and cultural magazines.

Co-Director of the Project: Dr. Habilitation Ludmila Cojocari

Ludmila COJOCARI is an associate professor and the director of the brunch „Museum of the Victims of Deportations and Political Repression” of the National Museum of History of Moldova. She has published extensively on the memory of communist repression, on memory politics, and museum studies in specialized journals, edited books, and she coordinated several research projects among which: “Trauma, Surviving Strategies and Problems of Social Reintegration in the Memory of Victims of the Totalitarian-Communist Regime in the Moldavian SSR. Researches in the Districts of the Center Zone of the Republic of Moldova (2016 – 2018)”.

Dr. Habilitation Virgiliu Bîrlădeanu

Virgiliu BÎRLĂDEANU is an associate professor, head of the Contemporary History Department at the Institute of History of the Moldova State University. He has organized numerous conferences and has published extensively on memory of totalitarian regimes, memory politics, Stalinist deportations, local memories. He has participated to various international projects, among which: „Researching totalitarian regimes and building European memory culture to overcome historical traumas: exchange and promotion of best practices between Lithuania and the Republic of Moldova” and „The Patterns of Border Identity: Republic of Moldova in the Context of Visible and Invisible Borders”.

Dr. Liudmila Chiciuc

Ludmila CHICIUC is a university lecturer teaching courses on „Historiography of the contemporary history of Romanians” and „Philosophy of history”. She has conducted research on history and memory of totalitarian communist regime in the Republic of Moldova, through local history and oral history investigations. Significant results of her research on these topics were achieved due to her involvement in the State Program, „Historical recovery and valorization of the memory of the victims of the totalitarian-communist regime in the Moldavian SSR (1940-1941, 1944-1953)”, where she contributed with research on the localities of southern Moldova.

Andreea Corca, MA

Andreea CORCA is a curator at the Brukenthal National Museum in Sibiu and custodian of the Recent History Collection. She has conducted research and published on various topics pertaining to childhood during communism in Romania, to communist repression and communist monuments. She organized exhibitions on these topics and guided visits for students.

Dr. Habilitation Manuela Marin

Manuela MARIN is a researcher at the „George Barițiu” Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Cluj Branch. She had conducted research on various topics related to the communist regime in Romania, including cult of personality, press and propaganda, Roma minority. She has been involved in two research projects, one investigated the memories of Roma people about the communist period while the second one dealt with the artistic representations of the various violent pasts from a comparative Eastern European perspective and she has published extensively on these topics and related one, such as communist nostalgia and youth perceptions of the recent past.

Dr. Lidia Pădureac

Lidia PĂDUREAC is an associate professor and vice-rector of the „Alecu Russo” State University of Moldova. She has edited several books and coordinated various research projects such as: „Organized hunger and repression on confessional grounds in the memories of the victims of the totalitarian-communist regime in the Moldavian SSR. Research in the localities of the north of the Republic of Moldova” and „Recovery and historical valorization of the memory of the victims of the totalitarian-communist regime in the Moldavian SSR (years 1940-1941, 1944-1953): research in the localities of the north of the Republic of Moldova”.

Dr. Corneliu Pintilescu

Corneliu PINTILESCU is a senior researcher at „George Bariţiu” Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Cluj-Napoca. He has published extensively on military courts under communism, on the policies of Antonescu's and communist dictatorships on ethnic and religious minorities; on the opposition and collaboration under communism. Between 2016 and 2019, he acted as deputy task manager for Romania within the Horizon project “COURAGE: Cultural Opposition – Understanding the Cultural Heritage of Dissent in the Former Socialist Countries” and was a member of the international project, „Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories”, financed by COST Actions.

Dr. Habilitation Mihai-Stelian Rusu

Mihai-Stelian RUSU is an associate professor at Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, „Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu. His research explore the multiple facets and complex interactions between the politics of death, mourning, and memory, with a particular focus on the politics of coming to terms with the past in the context of postsocialist Romania. His contributions to several strands of academic scholarship have brought him worldwide recognition. Besides the multiple citations received by his articles, his contributions to academic literature were also included in numerous syllabi and course outlines from universities around the world.

Olga Trandafilova, PhD Student

Olga TRANDAFILOVA is the director of the Museum of History of Avdarma, in the Republic of Moldova. She has a good expertise in management of exhibition, cultural tourism and museum studies. She has presented to and organized several international and regional conferences, and published on the topic of local memories and the memory of repression in the Republic of Moldova.