Dr. Chiara Bonfiglioli

Chiara Bonfiglioli is a Lecturer in Gender & Women’s Studies at University College Cork, Ireland, where she also coordinates the one-year interdisciplinary Masters in Women’s Studies and where she has been teaching feminist theories and methods since 2017. She completed a PhD at the Graduate Gender Programme, Utrecht University, in 2012, and has held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Edinburgh (NWO Rubicon), the University of Pula (NEWFELPRO Marie Curie Cofund) and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (EURIAS Junior Fellowship). She has also taken part in conferences and taught as guest-lecturer at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, and is a long term affiliate the Centre for Historical and Cultural Research of Socialism (CKPIS) at the University of Pula, currently involved in the project titled Microstructures of Yugoslav Socialism: Croatia 1970-1990. 

Dr Bonfiglioli has been working on women’s and gender history in South Eastern Europe for over a decade, investigating second wave feminism and state socialist women’s organizations in Yugoslavia, as well as the long history of female industrial workers in the region, from 1945 until the present days. She is the author of Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector (I.B. Tauris 2019) and of many chapters in edited volumes and articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Gender & History, Women’s Studies International Forum, Feminist Review, Contemporary Southeastern Europe, Labor History, and Social History.

Elisabeth-List-Fellowship Projekt: Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte in Südosteuropa im 20. Jahrhundert