Caterina Preda, PhD, Habil. is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Bucharest where she teaches undergraduate courses on Latin American politics, Art and politics, and a graduate course on Cultural memory in South America and Eastern Europe. Her research is interdisciplinary and deals with art in dictatorships, artistic memory in post-dictatorships in South America and Eastern Europe (Chile and Romania), cultural memory, post-communism, Latin American studies, and the visual representation of the Roma. She is the author of Art and Politics under Modern Dictatorships (Palgrave, 2017). Her most recent research projects dealt with the case of the Romanian Artists Union (UAP), and the art and politics of memory of the dictatorship in South America and Eastern Europe” (2018-2020), www.caterinapreda.ro, caterina.preda@unibuc.ro