Alexandra Ghiț is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at GWZO Leipzig and a ZARAH Research Affiliate at CEU.
Her research interests include women's labour history (with a focus on twentieth century Eastern Europe, especially Romania), the history and sociology of social policy, the social history of state socialisms and postsocialisms, the history of women's social movements.
Her first single-authored monograph, titled Welfare Work without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest (De Gruyter-Brill), was published (OA) in autumn 2025. From January 2026, Ghiț will focus on researching gendered postwar reconstruction in the period 1944–1948, as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at GWZO Leipzig.
In 2024–2025, she was postdoctoral researcher in the History of Feminist Political Thought and Women’s Rights Discourses in East Central Europe 1929–2001 (HERESSEE) project at the University of Vienna, Department of Contemporary History and RECET Center. Her research focused on interwar antimilitarism and pacifism in Central and Eastern Europe.
From February 2020 to July 2023, she was Postdoctoral Fellow in the project ZARAH : Women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late 20th century (ERC Advanced Grant).
In ZARAH, she investigated women's labour activism in the Romanian tobacco industry since the 19th century, a ZARAH component study titled Women’s Work and Entangled Organizing in the Tobacco Industry, in Transylvania from the 1890s, and Romania from the 1920s, to the 1990s (see linked OA articles below). In addition, she was lead responsible for developing and managing ZARAH DB, the project's database.
She taught the interdisciplinary masters-level course "The Gender of Labor Struggle: Past and Present" in the Department of Political Science at Vienna University (Summer Semester 2025). As Global Teaching Fellow at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh (Fall 2019), she convened writing seminars focusing on the global history of textile work and the social history of radio. She was teaching assistant for prof. Francisca De Haan's "Communism and Gender" course (CEU, Winter 2014).
She was a Fellow of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena (January–June 2022) and Fellow at the Leibniz Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO), Leipzig, on a "Starting Research Grant" (January–April 2024).
Photo by Diana Joseph. Imre Kertész Kolleg/ FSU Jena.
