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I am a researcher, Assistant Profesor at the Department of Political Science of the University of Bucharest working on art and politics (both cultural policies and artistic artifacts) in modern dictatorships and for now in Eastern Europe and Latin America (with a focus on Romania and Chile). I also deal with the aftermath of dictatorships through an analysis of art of memorialization or art of memory.
Research interests: Latin America, Eastern Europe, Cultural Politics, Art and Politics, Transitional Justice and the Arts, Cultural Memory.
Editor of Studia Politica Romanian Political Science Review
Research Projects
Transregional remembrance of dictatorships: restoring human dignity through artistic practices in South America and Eastern Europe (Contract TE, 138/2018 (2018-2020), PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0346, UEFISCDI: 449.744 Ron)
∗ From the ”state artist” to the artist dependent on the state: The Union of Visual Artists (of Romania) (1950-2010) – the Bucharest branch (UEFISCDI: PN-II-RU-TE- 2014-4-0243, 01/10/2015 – 30/09/2017) Contract 206/2015.
∗ A visual tool for the display of the visual representations of the Roma of Romania in the 19th and 20th centuries in the Europeana collections: between stereotypes and truthfulness, Europeana research grant 2017.
Publications
Caterina Preda, Art and Politics under Modern Dictatorships A Comparison of Chile and Romania (Palgrave, 2017)
Caterina Preda (ed.), The State Artist in Romania and Eastern Europe The Role of the Creative Unions edited by Caterina Preda (Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2017)
Caterina Preda et ali (eds.), Uniunea Artiștilor Plastici din România în documente de arhivă (Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2016)
My articles and research papers www.caterinapreda.ro