Chiara BONFIGLIOLI

I am Associate Professor in Contemporary History in the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. I am the Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator project titled WO-NAM: Women and Non-Alignment in the Cold War era: biographical and intersectional perspectives.

Previously (2017-2023), I lectured in Gender & Women’s Studies at University College Cork, where I coordinated the one-year interdisciplinary Masters in Women’s Studies, where I gained a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning.

I hold a PhD from the Graduate Gender Programme at the University of Utrecht. Between 2012 and 2014, I was based at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh, first as a research fellow and then as a NWO Rubicon post-doctoral fellow with a project titled “Women’s citizenship in South-East Europe”, within the framework of the ERC project named CITSEE ("The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia"). Between 2015 and 2017, I worked as a NEWFELPRO post-doctoral fellow within the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism (CKPIS), at the University of Pula. In 2016-2017, I was awarded a EURIAS Junior Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna.

Between 2018 and 2022, I was associate fellow of the project “Microstructures of Yugoslav Socialism: Croatia 1970-1990” (2018-2022) funded by the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ). In 2021 I was a Research Fellow at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, University of Jena. In 2022, together with Dr Rory Archer, I received an Elisabeth List Fellowship Programme from the University of Graz for the networking project, “Women’s and gender history in Southeast Europe in the 20th Century: Oral history, ethnographic and biographical approaches as a way to advance intersectionality”, which resulted in a doctoral school and in a postgraduate course which is now added to the curriculum in Graz. In 2023, I was a visiting fellow at the Institute for contemporary history in Ljubljana.

I am the author of the monograph Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector (2019), and of several peer-reviewed article and book chapters which address women’s, gender and feminist history from a transnational perspective. I am especially interested in oral history, qualitative research and memory politics.