Dr. Alexandra Ghiț

Postdoc 2025/2026 and Affiliated Researcher

Alexandra Ghiț is a researcher in the History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929-2001 (HERESSEE) project at the University of Vienna. In 2020-2023, she was postdoctoral researcher in the ZARAH ERC project, on women’s labor activism, at Central European University. She has a PhD in Comparative Gender Studies (CEU, 2020). 

Selected Publications

• 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2023.2227514.
• Ghiț, Alexandra. “Professionals’ and Amateurs’ Pasts: A Decolonizing Reading of Post-War Romanian Histories of Gendered Interwar Activism.” European Review of History 25, no. 1 (2018): 21–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2017.1376619.
• Ghiț, Alexandra. “Partisan Potential: Researching Communist Women's Organizations in Eastern Europe.” Aspasia 10, no. 1 (2016): 160–166. https://doi.org/10.3167/asp.2016.100107.

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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