Dr. Simina Dragoș

Biography

Simina Dragoș is a Research Fellow at Queens' College, University of Cambridge, focusing on the intersection of sociology, race, political sociology, critical education studies, and memory studies. Her PhD research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, examines the relationship between racism and collective memory, particularly how national understandings of the past contribute to the racialization of media narratives. Dragoș argues that nationalist hegemonic projects necessitate a functioning historical commonsense, reinforcing the reproduction of societal norms. Her empirical work investigates how educational materials perpetuate racialized historical commonsense in Romania and highlights the connection between nationalism and anti-Roma racism. Along with Dr. Ali Meghji, she co-founded the Catalysts for Decolonization lab at the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at the University of Cambridge, where she engages in teaching and research on eugenics, nationalism, and settler colonialism. Dragoș is also involved in academic communities such as the Race, Empire, Education Collective and the Politics of Representation Collective, contributing to discussions surrounding collective memory, sociology of education, and the politics of race and ethnicity.

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