Academic title: Professor

CV | Caterina Preda is a professor, doctor of political science of the University of Bucharest (2009) with a doctoral research internships at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine – Paris 3 and Santiago de Chile. Caterina Preda is entitled to coordinate PhDs in political science from 2022 and is affiliated with the Doctoral School of Political Science. She is interested in comparative politics and especially the comparison between Latin America and Eastern Europe (Chile and Romania), and she conducted research projects on the cultural policies of the dictatorships in the South and Eastern Europe, the Union of Plastic artists in Romania, the art of memorialization from a trans-regional perspective, artistic representation of Roma people. Director of PolArt (interdisciplinary Center for Research Arts, Politics, Memory, Society): https://polart.unibuc.ro/

Research interests: cultural policies in dictatorships and democracies, the relationship between art and politics, artistic practices of memorialization in post-dictatorial contexts.

Courses: SPE (Politics and society in Latin America), SPF (Politique et société en Amérique latine, Art(s) et Politique(s)), SPR (Politică și societate în America latină), SSL (Probleme de securitate în America latină), MPE (Politiques mémorielles et culturelles en Europe)

Recent publications:

• Caterina Preda, Magdalena Radomska (eds.), Plural and Multiple Geographies of Modern and Contemporary Art in East-Central Europe (Routledge 2025).
• Caterina Preda, Uniunea Artiștilor Plastici și artistul socialist de stathttps://www.idea.ro/editura/ro/uniunea-artitilor-plastici-i-artistul-socialist-de-stat-d213.html (Cluj: Ed. Idea, 2023).
• “Transnational socialist encounters in the Second Socialist World: the case of the Chilean Museum of Solidarity. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue Canadienne Des Études Latino-Américaines et Caraïbes, 49(3) (2024), 428–448. https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2024.2374624
•  “The Artistic Demystification of the Communist Regime in Romania” special issue of Southeastern Europe 48, 1 (2024): 57-83. https://doi.org/10.30965/18763332-48010004
• “Representations of dissent against communism in Romania: anticommunist heroes, ‘prison saints’ and (extra)ordinary citizens” for a special issue edited by Ferenc Laczo and Tamas Scheibner, “Canonizing and Contesting Soviet-Era Dissent since 1989. Actors, Representations, Impacts”. East European Politics and Societies in 2024, 38(3), 887-909 https://doi.org/10.1177/08883254231158817
• “Postsocialist Statuary Politics in Romania and Bulgaria: An Ambivalent Socialist Heritage“, Comparative Southeast European Studies vol. 71, no. 2, 2023, pp. 147-168. https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2022-0043

Topics for BA/MA coordination:  (1) art and politics (cultural policies, art as political discourse), (2) Latin America (democratization, contemporary politics), (3) the politics of cultural memory (monuments and museums) and transitional justice, (4) comparative analysis of autocratic regimes

Office hours: Tuesday 10.30-11.30 by appointment by email

E-mail:  caterina.preda@unibuc.ro

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