{"id":20615,"date":"2025-10-21T11:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/?p=20615"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:06:12","slug":"park-yuha-3-3-2-3-6-3-4-3-2-2-6-2-3-2-3-2-5-2-4-3-5-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/other-en\/2025\/10\/21\/20615\/","title":{"rendered":"BADESCU, Gruia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Name<\/h5>\n<p>BADESCU, Gruia<\/p>\n<h5>Position and Affiliated Institution<\/h5>\n<p>Research Fellow (Research Group Leader), Zukunftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), University of Konstanz<\/p>\n<h5>Highest Degree<\/h5>\n<p>Ph.D., University of Cambridge<\/p>\n<h5>Education and Academic Employment<\/h5>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-colored-tbhd\" style=\"height: 205px; width: 99.355%; border-collapse: collapse;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 24px;\"><strong>Education:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 24px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 24px;\">2007<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 24px;\" width=\"543\">BA, Middlebury College, Geography and European Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 24px;\">2009<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 24px;\">MSc, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), City Design and Social Science<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 24px;\">2018<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 24px;\">PhD, University of Cambridge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 10px;\"><strong>Academic Employment:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 10px;\" width=\"543\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 17px;\">2015-2018<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 17px;\">Lecturer and Research Associate, University of Oxford<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 24px;\">2017-2024<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 24px;\">Visiting Lecturer, SNSPA Bucharest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 24px;\">2019-2021<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 24px;\">Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Konstanz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 10px;\">2024-2025<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 10px;\">Research Fellow, Paris Institute for Advanced Studies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25.9913%; height: 24px;\">2020-present<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 74.0088%; height: 24px;\">Research Fellow (Research Group Leader), Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>Research Topic<\/h5>\n<p>Cities after war: Urban reconstruction and memory-work<\/p>\n<h5>Research Fields of Interest<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Cities after political ruptures<\/li>\n<li>Post-war urban reconstruction<\/li>\n<li>Cities during and after authoritarianism<\/li>\n<li>Comparative urbanism;<\/li>\n<li>Dealing with the past after war, dictatorship, and empire, transitional justice<\/li>\n<li>Legacies of empire, imperial duress, imperial nostalgia<\/li>\n<li>Urban cosmopolitanism; migration, refugees; syncretic place-making;<\/li>\n<li>Architecture and memory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Academic Publications<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>B\u0103descu, G. (2022). \u201cThe City as a World in Common: Syncretic Place-Making as a Spatial Approach to Peace.\u201d <em>Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding<\/em>, 16(5).<\/li>\n<li>B\u0103descu, G. (2024). \u201cRemaking the Urban: International Actors and the Post-war Reconstruction of Cities.\u201d <em>International Studies Quarterly<\/em>, 68(2).<\/li>\n<li>B\u0103descu, G., Baillie, B., &amp; Mazzucchelli, F. (eds.) (2021). *Synchronous Pasts: Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia. <em>Palgrave Macmillan<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>B\u0103descu, Gruia (2020) &#8220;Rewritten in stone: imperial heritage in the sacred place of the nation&#8221;, <em>Cultural Studies<\/em>, 34 (5), pp. 707-729.<\/li>\n<li>B\u0103descu, G. (2019). \u2018Making Sense of Ruins: Architectural Reconstruction and Collective Memory in Belgrade\u2019. <em>Nationalities Papers,<\/em> pp. 182-197<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Professional Affiliations<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Memory Studies Association (Convener, Space, Place and Memory Working Group)<\/li>\n<li>International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA)<\/li>\n<li>Memory Lab, Trans-European Exchange Platform on History and Remembrance<\/li>\n<li>International Sociological Association RC21 (Sociology of Urban and Regional Development)<\/li>\n<li>Association for Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS)<\/li>\n<li>Association for Slavic, East European, &amp; Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Honors<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>RFIEA Marie Sk\u0142odowska-Curie Fellowship (2024\u20132025)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Zukunftskolleg Research Fellowship (2020\u20132026)<\/li>\n<li>Eric Lane Award, Clare College, University of Cambridge (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Award for Best Doctoral Paper on European Geography, Association of American Geographers, Chicago (2015)<\/li>\n<li>Aspen Institute Romania Fellowship for Young Leaders (2013)<\/li>\n<li>Romanian Graduate Student of the Year Award, Europe Section (2013)<\/li>\n<li>Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship (2008\u20132014)<\/li>\n<li>National Geographic Society Young Explorer Grant (2008\u20132010)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Other Interests<\/h5>\n<p>Enjoys architecture, cities, traveling, photography, and cinema. Interested in cultural exchange and exploring cities through their histories and built environments.<\/p>\n<h5>HP<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geschichte.uni-konstanz.de\/forschung-geschichte\/kolar\/team\/dr-gruia-badescu\/\">https:\/\/www.geschichte.uni-konstanz.de\/forschung-geschichte\/kolar\/team\/dr-gruia-badescu\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paris-iea.fr\/en\/fellows\/gruia-badescu-2\">https:\/\/www.paris-iea.fr\/en\/fellows\/gruia-badescu-2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name BADESCU, Gruia Position and Affiliated Institution Research Fellow (Research Group Leader), Zukunftskolle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20616,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20615\/revisions\/20616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}