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About Jill Massino
I'm a scholar of modern Europe with an interest in gender, everyday life, and transnational engagements. My current project explores Romania's (and more broadly the Eastern Bloc's) relationship with the Global South during the Cold War.NBN Episodes hosted by Jill:
May 15, 2024
Russia in World History
Russia in World History: A Transnational Approach (Bloomsbury, 2022) uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context. T…
February 26, 2024
The Human Rights Dictatorship
In The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany (Cambridge UP, 2020), Ned Richardson-Little exposes the …
February 16, 2024
Empire of Friends
The familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repression and military force. But in Empire of Friends: Soviet Pow…
January 10, 2024
Deserved
After the fall of the Iron Curtain, people across the former socialist world saw their lives transformed. In just a few years, labor markets were comp…
September 22, 2023
Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain
The Global Sixties are well known as a period of non-conformist lifestyles, experimentation with consumer products and technology, counterculture, and…
August 8, 2023
Blood and Diamonds
Since the late 1990s, activists have campaigned to remove "conflict diamonds" from jewelry shops and department stores. But if the problem of conflict…
February 22, 2023
Against the World
Before the First World War, enthusiasm for a borderless world reached its height. International travel, migration, trade, and progressive projects…
January 6, 2023
Ghosts of War
How do states and societies confront the legacies of war and occupation, and what do truth, guilt, and justice mean in that process? In Ghosts o…
December 9, 2022
Socialism Goes Global
Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation (Oxford UP, 2022) is the first work to provide a broad history…
October 24, 2022
Unequal under Socialism
Unequal under Socialism: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria (U Toronto Press, 2021) examines the formation of racial, gender, and national …
May 5, 2022
Free
Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Sta…
March 28, 2022
Forging Germans
Caroline Mezger's Forging Germans: Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918-1944 (Oxford UP, 2020)…
March 2, 2022
The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary
The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary (Palgrave, 2022) explains a new type of political order that emerged in Hungary in 2010: a form of authorita…
February 22, 2022
Borderlands in European Gender Studies
Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experi…
February 14, 2022
Communism in Eastern Europe
Communism in Eastern Europe (Routledge, 2021) is a groundbreaking new survey of the history of Eastern Europe since 1945. It examines how Communist go…
January 27, 2022
Nonaligned Modernism
In less than half a century, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia successfully defeated Fascist occupation, fended off dominating pressures fr…
January 19, 2022
Radical Empathy
Structural racism has impacted the lives of African Americans in the United States since before the country’s founding. Although the country has made …
October 27, 2021
Peripheries at the Centre
Following the Treaty of Versailles, European nation-states were faced with the challenge of instilling national loyalty in their new borderlands, in w…
September 10, 2021
Citizens Without Borders
Among Eastern Europe’s postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe’s liberal democr…
September 2, 2021
Don't Need No Thought Control
The fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state. Meanw…
August 16, 2021
1989
The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues that c…
August 3, 2021
Women and Industry in the Balkans
Women's emancipation through productive labour was a key tenet of socialist politics in post-World War II Yugoslavia. Mass industrialisation under Tit…
June 21, 2021
Velvet Retro
Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked “nostalgia” to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of t…
June 18, 2021
Museums of Communism
How did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed m…