Sasha Dimitrova holds a MsC in Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology from Maastricht University. She has worked as a research assistant at the Kunsthistorisches Max-Planck-Institut in Florence, with an interest in the ethico-aesthetics of the visual. In her Master’s thesis, she investigated the current everyday usage and discourses around socialist architecture in Bulgaria. Sasha is now part of RECET as a Prae-doc within the project HERESSEE “The History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929 – 2001”, under the supervision of Dr. Zsófia Lóránd.

Research focus

• Artistic cultures of the 20th century

• Feminist intellectual history

• Late Socialism and transition in the Balkans

• Propaganda and resistance

Current research project

Working title: Women’s Intellectual and Cultural Discourses in Socialist and Transition-Era Bulgaria and North Macedonia

This project will explore Bulgarian and Macedonian women’s intellectual and cultural history of the late-Socialist and transition years. The investigated discourses span from the political and academic to the unofficial everyday narratives. Focusing on the ‘double bind’ of socialist women, this project is especially interested in how the cultural organisation of women corresponds to the larger political shifts.