Alexandra Ghiț

Alexandra Ghiț is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leibniz Center for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) Leipzig. She is the author of the monograph Welfare Work without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest (De Gruyter, 2025) and one of the ten co-authors of the major monograph Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond: A New Transnational History (UCL Press, 2025), among others. Currently, she is working on gendered postwar reconstruction before the Cold War (1944–1948), in Romania placed in a transnational perspective. Her other research interests include women’s political thought in Romania and Moldova across the 20^th century, and international trade union cooperation in the 1990s.

Selected Publications

• Ghiț, Alexandra. Welfare Work without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025).
• Ghiț, Alexandra. “The Treacherous Trade Unionist: Paraschiva B. Ion and Labour activism in the Romanian Tobacco Sector, 1920s to 1940s.” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31, no. 2 (2023): 261-278.
• Ghiț, Alexandra. “Partisan Potential: Researching Communist Women's Organizations in Eastern Europe.” Aspasia 10, no. 1 (2016): 160–166. 

Focus in the HERESSEE Project

• Pacifist and antimilitarist women's political thought in Eastern Europe from the 1920s to the 1950s, with a focus on Romania.
• Feminist thought in Romania since the 1970s.

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