Claudia-Florentina Dobre, a Doctor Habilitation and Senior Researcher at the “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History in Bucharest, earned her Ph.D. in History from Laval University in Québec in 2007. Her dissertation focused on women’s memories of political persecution during the communist era. Dobre’s research encompasses various aspects of communist memory, including museums, memorials, monuments, deportation, and daily life in Romania under communism, as well as studies on knowledge exchange and academic cultures in the Black Sea Region in the XXth century. She has published 55 academic studies, organized 11 conferences and panels and co-directed two documentaries on Bărăgan deportation.
Most recent publications: Historia y Memoria en Rumania Postcomunista, Bogota, Editorial Aula De Humanidades, 2024; Deportați în Bărăgan. Amintiri din Siberia românească (Bărăgan deportees. Memories from the Romanian Siberia), ediția a II-a, Târgoviște, Cetatea de Scaun, 2024 (co-editor); Fostele deținute politic și Securitatea. Studiu de caz (The Former Political Detainees and the Securitate. A Case Study), Târgoviște, Cetatea de Scaun, 2023; Ni víctimas ni heroínas. Las antiguas detenidas políticas y las memorias del comunismo en Rumanía, Bogotá, Editorial Aula de Humanidades, 2022.