Felcher Anastasia

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Anastasia Felcher is a historian, cultural heritage specialist, and archivist, with academic work focused on the cultural history of Eastern European border regions, memory studies, and minority histories. She obtained her bachelor's degree in anthropology in Chisinau in 2008, her master's degree in comparative history at Central European University in 2010, and her doctorate in Cultural Heritage Management and Development at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca in 2016. Her research has addressed themes such as the protection of Jewish heritage, Holocaust memory in post-Soviet states, heritage discussions in Central and Eastern Europe, and the relationship between literature and politics in the Eastern European space, with some of these studies being developed into international academic works and projects. Since 2020, Anastasia Felcher has been working in Hungary, at the Blinken OSA Archivum of the Central European University in Budapest, where she coordinates the Slavic collection and manages Slavic, Jewish, and samizdat archival collections. In this capacity, she has contributed to the organization, description, and metadata enhancement of the archival catalog, the promotion of collections, public and teaching activities, as well as the supervision of assistant archivists and fellows. In parallel, since 2023, she has been teaching part-time at the Cultural Heritage Studies Program of CEU in Vienna and has previously collaborated with initiatives such as the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, as a national expert, and the Invisible University for Ukraine program, as a mentor for the culture/heritage component. Throughout her career, she has benefited from scholarships and research internships at prestigious institutions such as Blinken OSA, the German Historical Institute in Moscow, the Leibniz Institute for History and Culture of Eastern Europe in Leipzig, the Center for Advanced Studies in Sofia, and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. She was also involved in projects funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, the Swedish Research Foundation, and Horizon 2020, and in 2025 she is participating in the development of a digital archive about Russia's war against Ukraine within the INDEX Institute for Documentation and Exchange in Lviv. Publicly available information emphasizes her professional and academic path; no relevant details about her personal life or family are provided in the public sources consulted.