Andrea Feldman (historian)

Feldman participated at many international conferences in Croatia, US, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, UK, Poland, Turkey, Slovakia, Belgium and Italy. During her stay in the US, she regularly participated in the work of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She is Croatian representative at the International Federation for Research in Women's History since 1989.[1] For ten years she co-organized an international conference "Women and Politics" at Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik. Between 1987 and 1988, she was a researcher and associate at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and in the fall of 1993 a junior researcher at the Austrian Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen. In 1996, she worked for the Sterling Memorial Library transcribing, translating and cataloging testimonies of Holocaust survivors from Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Holocaust Archives. As director of the Institute Vlado Gotovac, she organized an international conference "Minorities as a Cross-border Cooperation Bridge" in Osijek in 2003. Friedman collaborated with the Yale Psychiatric Institute, working as a translator and co-worker on a posttraumatic stress disorder research. She conducted and translated conversations with refugees from BiH, who participated in the research as patients. She also analyzed the background of political and historical events in the successor countries of the SFR Yugoslavia for the conductors of research prof. Dori Laub and prof. Steven Wein. She translated therapeutic sessions from Bosnian and Croatian to English and vice versa.

In 1992, Feldman worked as an assistant at the Department of History of the University of Yale where she lectured subjects Russian Culture (1824-90), Formation of American Culture (20th Century), History of International Communism and History of the Working Class in America. Between 1992 and 1993, she lectured the initial degree of Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian languages at the Department of Slavic Studies at the Yale University. In the fall semester of 1995, she lectured subject Bosnia and Herzegovina - Evolution of Multicultural Society. In 1996, she became assistant to prof. Mark Steinberg on the subject Russian Culture (1824-1990). Between 1985 and 2020 Feldman worked at the Croatian Institute of History. In the academic year 2002-03, she lectured subject History of Serbs for students of a special program of Serbian language, history, and culture at the Faculty of Teacher Education of the University of Zagreb. Between 2002 and 2004, she advised Foreign Ministers Tonino Picula and Miomir Žužul on human rights and civil society. In 2004, she was appointed a director of the Open Society Institute - Croatia. She worked at the position until 2006 when she became executive director of the Institute for Democracy'. In 2008, she was appointed a deputy director of the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences.

As an external associate at the University Department for Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb, she lectured subject Women/Gender History in the 19th and 20th centuries. She also taught courses in History and Culture of the West (from the French Revolution to the Fall of the Berlin Wall) and the Political and Cultural Formations of the South Slavic Nations at the University of Business Studies in Banja Luka.[2] In the academic year 2010-11, she lectured subject of Comparative Politics at the School of Science and Technology of the University of Sarajevo. In addition, she also lectured at the University of London, University College London and King's College.[3]

Feldman is a member of the Croatian Writers' Society (HDP), and member of the Management Board of the Croatian branch of PEN International.