Team members

Dr Ada Hajdu✞ was Assistant Professor of Art History at the National University of Arts and Researcher at New Europe College in Bucharest. She was Principle Investigator of the ERC project ‘Art Historiographies in Central and Eastern Europe. An Inquiry from the Perspective of Entangled Histories’. Her publications included Architecture and the National Project. The Romanian National Style (2009) and Art Nouveau in Romania (2008).

Dr Mihnea Mihail is Teaching Assistant at the National University of Arts, Researcher at New Europe College in Bucharest and Research Assistant for the ERC project ‘Art Historiographies in Central and Eastern Europe’. He has recently defended his PhD thesis Iconographic Transfers and the Geography of Art in the Hungarian Kingdom. 14th-15th Centuries.

Dr Shona Kallestrup is Associate Lecturer in the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews and Project Supervisor and Senior Researcher for the ERC project ‘Art Historiographies in Central and Eastern Europe’. Her publications include Art and Design in Romania 1866-1927. Local and international aspects of the search for national expression (2006).

Dr Magdalena Kunińska is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Art History at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and Senior Researcher for the ERC project ‘Art Historiographies in Central and Eastern Europe’. She wrote her PhD dissertation on Marian Sokołowski’s history of art and in 2012 was awarded the Szczęsny Dettlof prize for the best work by a young art historian in Poland. She is the author of a number of articles on Central European art historiography.

Dr Anna Adashinskaya is Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC project ‘Art Historiographies in Central and Eastern Europe’. Her research interests lie in the fields of Byzantine and Balkan Studies as well as Serbian and Bulgarian Art Historiographies. She has recently defended her PhD dissertation Ktetor: Practices of Ecclesiastic Foundation, Sponsorship, and Patronage in Late Byzantium and Balkan Slavic Countries.

Dr Cosmin Minea is Postdoctoral Researcher for the ERC project ‘Art Historiographies in Central and Eastern Europe’. His research interests lie in the field of architectural history and historiography of modern (nineteenth and twentieth-century) Central and Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on how the material heritage of the region was used to project new identities and foster allegiances. He has recently defended his PhD dissertation Old Buildings for Modern Times: The Rise of Architectural Monuments as Symbols of The State in Late 19th Century Romania.