![]() Martin Kohlrausch, Brokers of Modernity: East Central Europe and the Rise of Modernist Architects, 1910-1950.Dark Finance: Illiquidity and Authoritarianism at the Margins of Europe. Remains of Socialism: Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary. An earlier version of this paper appeared in French as “Plans impénétrables et expertise poreuse: construire un Bucarest socialiste, reconstruire son passé (1953-1968), » Études Balkaniques 2010/1 (n° 17) : 147-165.“Impenetrable Plans and Porous Expertise: Building a Socialist Bucharest, Reconstructing Its Past (1958-1968).” EUI Working Papers (2012).“Property Puzzles and Political Zigzags in an Ambivalent State: The Shifting Value of the Ethnic Germans in Communist Romania.” In No Neighbours’ Land: Postwar Europe in a New Comparative Perspective, edited by Małgorzata Łukianow, Sabine Rutar, and Anna Wylegała.“Networking Texts and Persons: Politics of Plagiarism in Postsocialist Romania.” Romanian Journal of Society and Politics 4, 2 (2004): 148-173.(A Case Study).” Romanian Journal of Society and Politics 5, 2 (2006): 38-64 “Work, State, and the Linguistic Construction of ‘Self’ in Romania of the 1950s and 1960s.“Letters, Plans, and Walls: Architects, Archeologists, and Institutional Politics in Bucharest of the 1960s.” Anthropology of East Europe Review 57, 2 (2009): 56-67.“Arbiters of Value: The Nationalization of Art and the Politics of Expertise in Early Socialist Romania.” East European Politics & Societies and Cultures, 33, 3 (2019): 656-676. ![]() ‘Restitution Reversal’ or ‘Re-nationalization’? An Analysis of Law, Property, and History Through the Case of the ‘Szekely Mikó’ High School in Transylvania.” The Journal of Romanian Studies, special issue on “Law and Society.” Fall 2020 (2): 135-164.“A Deconstruction Story: Property, Memory, and Temporality in a Transylvanian Village.” History and Anthropology, published online: October 5, 2020.Winner of the 2020 Ed Hewett Book Prize offered by ASEEES.Socialist Heritage: History, Place, and Belonging in 20th century Romania (Indiana University Press, 2019).Ph.D.: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2010 Her second book manuscript in progress is a historical and anthropological study of property restitution, ethnic rights, and Europeanization, with a focus on the multiethnic region of Transylvania, Romania. An archival and ethnographic research of the changing meanings of the Old Town reveals the fundamentally dual nature of heritage: behind every search for the essence of an idealized past lie strategies of differentiation that can lead to further marginalization and exclusion. " The book traces the transformation of a central district of Bucharest, the Old Town, from a socially and ethnically diverse place in the early 20th century, into an epitome of national history under socialism, and then, starting in the 2000s, into the historic center of a European capital. Her first book, Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania (Indiana University Press, 2019) is the winner of the 2020 Ed Hewett book prize, offered by the A ssociation for S lavic, E ast European, and Eurasian Studies for "an outstanding monograph on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe. She is also a recipient of fellowships from the Wenner Gren Foundation For Anthropological Research (dissertation research grant), the American Council for Learned Societies (dissertation writing grant), and the Max Weber Postdoctoral Program of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. She has conducted extensive archival and ethnographic research in different locations in Romania, and has published on a range of topics, including 1) the politics of archaeology and nationalism under socialism 2) urban planning, state-making and material practices, 3) petitions, intertextuality, and citizenship in socialism, and 4) plagiarism in post-socialism. She received her PhD from the Interdisciplinary Program in Anthropology and History of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Emanuela Grama specializes in the history of 20th century Central and Eastern Europe, with a focus on urban politics, processes of state-making, property, memory and cultural change in 20 th and 21 st century Romania.
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