Izabella Agárdi

Dr. Agárdi is a historian and holds a Ph.D. from Utrecht University. Her research interests are oral history, gender studies, rural women’s history, contemporary historiography and literary theory. She focuses on the intersections of personal and public narratives, practices of periodization and tropes of narrating 20th-century history in Central Europe. She is the author of the book On the Verge of History: The Life Stories of Women from Serbia, Romania, and Hungary, 1920-2020, (Ibidem, 2022), nominated for the prestigious MSA First Book Award.