MICRO-BIO

• Maria Alina Asavei is an Assistant Professor of Area Studies at the Charles University in Prague. She is the recipent of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship from Fordham University (The Orthodox Studies Center) and senior researcher i...More

  Maria Alina Asavei is an Assistant Professor of Area Studies at the Charles University in Prague. She is the recipent of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship from Fordham University (The Orthodox Studies Center) and senior researcher in several reseach projects: POPREBEL (H2020); PRIMUS (Beyond Hegemonic Narratives and Myths: History and Memory in Central and Southeastern Europe) and Transregional artistic memory: Restoring human dignity after dictatorships. Maria published on art, politics and religion. Her new book project (wit Palgrave McMillan) focuses on Arts, Politics and Resistance in (Post-) Communist Romania. 

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EXPERIENCE

• Charles University

  • Assistant Professor
  • Russian and East European Studies
  • September 2014 to Present

EDUCATION

• Central European University Budapest

  • PhD

  PhD in Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics

Interests

• Cultural Memory

• The Body As An Instrument For Salvation

• Religious Revitalisation Movements

• Messianic Populism

• Populism

• Post Communism

• Political Art And Religion; Cultural Studies

• Religious Art As Political Resistance

• Region&Politics

Links

• Dr. Maria-Alina Asavei