Much of my research has been 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 heritage ecologies, I explore how memory and the past are socially and politically mobilised. I am especially interested in the many forms that engagement with the past can take — from state-sanctioned, nationalist, and imperialist heritage projects, through activist interventions, to intimate practices of remembrance and care. Working closely with heritage institutions, social initiatives, collectives, artists, and activists, I ask how knowledge might be co-created otherwise, and how the traces of the past might be worked with differently in the present and for the future.