Anastasia Betsa

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. As part of this project, she works on her PhD thesis about the transnational circulations of concepts of Boden and their effects on the built environment.

Anastasia Betsa previously 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. She worked in various architecture firms in Aachen and Rotterdam and was a research assistant in the Research Area “Contemporary History and Archive” since 2022. In her master's thesis, she investigated the role of a German construction company on the urban imaginaries of Buenos Aires in the first decades of the 20th century.