Dr Anna Calori
- Lecturer in Contemporary Economic History (Political & International Studies)
Biography
I joined the University of Glasgow in September 2023 as a Lecturer in Contemporary Economic History.
My interests are in the global economic and social history of the Cold War and its aftermath, the business and labour histories of Eastern Europe (broadly defined) and the history of international development and technical cooperation between (former) socialist countries and the developing world. My research is situated primarily in the Western Balkans/Former Yugoslavia and the countries of the non-aligned world, particularly Cuba and Zambia. Through these seemingly different context, I explore the economic history of state socialism as part of European and global history, its legacy and afterlives. Together with colleagues at the University of Vienna, I am part of a research project titled YU-ZAM: A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa , funded by the Austrian research fund (FWF).
Before joining the University of Glasgow, I was a researcy fellow at the Research Center for the History of Transformations at the University of Vienna. There, I was awarded a three-year post-doctoral fellowship funded by Marie Sklodowska Curie COFUND initiative (REWIRE - Reinforcing Women in Research). I've held research fellowships at the University of Leipzig, Jena, Konstanz and a traineeship at the ILO in Geneva. At the University of Exeter, where I obtained my PhD, I was part of a collaborative research project which investigated the history of socialism and its demise in a global perspective.
Research interests
Research groups
- Economic & Social History
Supervision
Albert Gil Gil (together with first supervisor, Dr. Helen Yaffe)
I welcome PhD proposals that relate to my research interests.
Teaching
I convene the following courses:
PGT Globalization and the nation-state
I teach on the following courses:
