My research interests lie in the politics of architecture and urban planning in 20th century Central and Eastern Europe. I focus on representations of “national heritage” in socialist Central and Eastern Europe, and the ways in which they continue to inform and challenge claims of property restitution in a post-1989 context. Specifically, I examine the simultaneous processes of built heritage reevaluation and restitution and the refashioning of ethnic identities through the discourse of cultural property and cultural rights in contemporary Romania.
