Staff

Clementina Irimina joined the research area “Contemporary History and Archive” in a project about the history of the Bauakademie (Building Academy) of the GDR as a research associate in November 2024. She studied history at the University of Bucharest and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Svetlana Burmistr has been working on the project "How the Past Counts. The History of the Federal Statistical Office (GeStat)" of the Research Area "Contemporary History and Archive" since 1 November 2024. She studied linguistics, modern German literature and political science at Freie Universität Berlin. In 2014, she completed her doctorate in modern history at the Centre for Research on Antisemitism at Technische Universität Berlin.

Anastasia Betsa joined the Research Area “Contemporary History and Archive” at the IRS as a research associate in the new lead project with the working title “Boden. Rethinking a Historically Fraught Category” in November 2024. Previously she graduated with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Architecture from the RWTH Aachen and completed the M.A. Historical Urban Studies at Technische Universität Berlin.

Marie-Madeleine Ozdoba has been a postdoctoral researcher in the research group ‘Historical Urban and Spatial Research’ since July 2024, funded by a cooperation centre of the Max Weber Foundation. At the IRS, she is pursuing her postdoctoral project ‘The Invention of the Socialist Environment. Media Mediations of the Modern City in the GDR’, at the interface of architectural history and visual studies.