My research is grounded in long-term ethnographic, museum, and archival fieldwork in Romania and the UK, and more recently in Italy, Germany, and Poland. I approach Eastern and Southern Europe as critical vantage points—sites that challenge dominant narratives of Europe, expose complex historical entanglements, and open up space for imagining alternative possibilities.
Focusing on museum collections, curatorial practices, and forms of intangible heritage, I explore how memory and the past are socially and politically mobilised. My work spans a broad spectrum: from activist interventions and state initiatives to intimate acts of remembrance and care, as well as nationalist and imperialist heritage projects that shape which histories are highlighted—or obscured.
Collaboration is central to my research. I work closely with heritage institutions, social initiatives, collectives, artists, and activists to explore new ways of co-creating knowledge and reimagining how the traces of the past shape our present and future.