Holds a PhD in Political Science (2005), a double Master’s Degree in Political Science and East European Studies and a BA from Sciences-Po Paris, as well as a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from USC (USA). Former Reid Hall Fellow at Columbia University (1999-2000). Member of the editorial boards of Critique internationale and Balkanologie.
Her doctoral dissertation was devoted to the domestication of post-socialist changes in Bulgaria and the role of political connections and exchanges of favours in this process.
She is currently conducting research on popular culture and the social history of socialism in Bulgaria (1970-1980). Her other research interests include ethnic mobilizations and everyday ethnicity in Bulgaria and Macedonia, as well as EU conflict management policies in the Balkans. Since 2010, Nadège Ragaru is also the Scientific editor of CERI's Webcast series "Au fil des mots".
Teaching
- Master 1 "Affaires internationales", Sciences Po: "World Politics"
- Cycle européen de Dijon, Sciences Po Paris, "Deconstructing Conflict Analysis"
- Collège universitaire de Sciences Po Paris, "Screening Socialism : Visual Culture in Eastern Europe"
Research interest
- Historical Sociology of communism in Bulgaria ; visual culture and cinema under socialism.
- Ethnicity and community relations in the Balkans.
- The EU enlargement to the Western Balkans
- State-building et post-conflict management in the Balkans.
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