Rate My Professor Celia Donert

Donert's research focuses on contemporary European history, particularly Central Europe, exploring communism and state socialism, nationalism and internationalism, human rights, and gender, with emphasis on Romani activism, citizenship rights under socialism, and women's rights in international communism. Her monograph The Rights of the Roma: The Struggle for Citizenship in Postwar Czechoslovakia (Cambridge University Press, 2017) received the Czechoslovak Studies Association Book Prize in 2019 and was a finalist for the Wiener Library Ernst Fraenkel Prize in 2018; a Czech translation appeared in 2024. Key edited volumes include The Legacies of the Romani Genocide in Europe since 1945 (Routledge, 2022, with Eve Rosenhaft), Making Sense of Dictatorship: Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe since 1945 (Central European University Press, 2022, with Ana Kladnik and Martin Sabrow), and Women's Rights and Global Socialism (International Review of Social History, 2022). She has held AHRC Leadership Fellowships for projects such as How Women’s Rights became Human Rights: Gender, Socialism, and Postsocialism in Global History, 1917-2017, and received grants from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and British Academy. Donert serves on the editorial boards of Past & Present, Journal of Contemporary History, Social History, and Historický časopis; was co-editor of Contemporary European History (2018-2023); and co-edits the Cambridge University Press series European Histories of the Present. She convenes the Rethinking Modern Europe seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, and presented a BBC World Service documentary on The Romani Holocaust: An Unfinished History.