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Alexandra Ghit

@alexghit.bsky.social

Gender and women's history, labour history, history of welfare and social policy in Eastern and Central Europe, esp. Romania. MSCA postdoc fellow at Leibniz GWZO Leipzig, researching gendered postwar reconstruction, focus on 1944-1948 #MSCA_RECKON.

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MSCA Project Blog | GWZO This blog accompanies the MSCA research project »Women’s Politics and Postwar Reconstruction in Romania« by Alexandra Ghiț. How did women politicians and grassroots activists shape the postwar remaking of key political fields? RECKON will investigate the gendered transformation of public health, labour, foreign affairs and culture after World War II, with a focus on Romania 1944–1948.It regularly features reflection pieces that provide insights into ongoing research, prefiguring interpretative lines and offering a glimpse of the findings to be unpacked in longer-format publications. The blog and the research project are funded by the European Union under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA).

RECKON Blog post #1: Starting from the Rough Edges: On Researching Mid – 1940s Brochures and the History of Postwar Romania 📔 📓 🗃️ www.leibniz-gwzo.de/en/research/... MSCA_RECKON

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Painting by Alexandru Ciucurencu, titled "Femeie scriind [Writing woman], 1945, oil on cardboard. Original displayed in the National Art Museum of Romania. Reproduction source: Europeana.eu, CC BY-SA.

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Painting by Alexandru Ciucurencu, titled "Femeie scriind [Writing woman], 1945, oil on cardboard. Original displayed in the National Art Museum of Romania. Reproduction source: Europeana.eu, CC BY-SA.

Painting by Alexandru Ciucurencu, titled "Femeie scriind [Writing woman], 1945, oil on cardboard. Original displayed in the National Art Museum of Romania. Reproduction source: Europeana.eu, CC BY-SA.

I gave my first lecture of the year last week, on women in parliamentary politics in the immediate aftermath of World War II in Romania - #MSCA_RECKON. Happy to explore Faith/Glaube, incl. in painting, in the "In die Wallachei..." lecture series at #GWZO Leipzig: www.leibniz-gwzo.de/en/transfer/...

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Alexandra Ghiț | GWZO Alexandra Ghiț studied political science, liberal arts, history and gender studies in Cluj Napoca, Budapest, Durham (USA), Nottingham and Leipzig. She obtained a Doctorate (2020) from Central European University Budapest with a dissertation on women’s activism, gendered expertise and social policy in interwar Bucharest placed in transnational perspective. From February 2020 to July 2023, she was Postdoctoral Fellow in the project ZARAH (ERC Advanced Grant), on women’s labour activism, at CEU Budapest. In 2024 and 2025, she was a postdoctoral researcher in HERESSEE (ERC Starting Grant), on women’s political thought, at Vienna University.

New academic home (and warm welcome) at #GWZO Leipzig. I will be working on gendered histories of postwar reconstruction in my MSCA-funded project #RECKON : www.leibniz-gwzo.de/en/research/... Profile page here: www.leibniz-gwzo.de/en/institute... . Project updates on Bsky, Linked-in and similar.

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Welfare Work Without Welfare Welfare Work Without Welfare argues that women activists, wage workers, and homemakers in the Romanian capital Bucharest ensured others’ well-being in the interwar period through their "austerity welf...

*tapping the mike* Hello, my first book is out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... It is Open Access. For those who want the hardback: 40% off until 11.12, thanks to the good folx at @dgb-history.bsky.social
It deals with the labor of women who ensured others’ well-being in interwar Bucharest.

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New academic year ... new publication. Women's Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond.

historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

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ZARAH – Women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late 20th century

"We" is #ZARAH, project @weareceu.bsky.social, funded by
@erc.europa.eu, PI: Susan Zimmermann, Researchers: Selin Çağatay, Mátyás Erdélyi, @alexghit.bsky.social , Olga Gnydiuk, Veronika Helfert, Ivelina Masheva, Zhanna Popova, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Program Manager: Lukas Neissl
zarah-ceu.org

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@cleocz.bsky.social

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Today and tomorrow, a great conference at Sciences Po Grenoble on "marginal/critical economic knowledge" in economics organised by Simon Godard, @pierrealayrac.bsky.social and Tobias Rupprecht:

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When in France, the mandatory tour of the BD shelves at FNAC #Grenoble

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With @veenomen.bsky.social and Juliette Blayac, after our panel at the "Economic Marginalities" conference organized by @SimonGodard in very pretty Grenoble

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The Vienna-Zürich train ride on a sunny winter day continues to be the.most.beautiful

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Hello better place!

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