Maria Bogdan

Fortunoff Research Fellow (10/2023 – 09/2025)

The Representation of the Forgotten-Silenced: Understanding the Social Process of Cultural Trauma of the European Romani Communities

As a VWI Fortunoff Fellow, Maria Bogdan researches testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies related to the Sinti and Roma experience. As part of this work, she - together with the archive's partner, the Milan Šimečku Foundation (MSF) in Bratislava - promotes the use of Slovak-language testimonies of Sinti and Roma survivors. More than a dozen of the testimonies are currently closed to the public due to issues related to privacy and legal regulations. She is working with the MSF to open up the collection and enable its use in teaching and research. At the same time, she is working on her current research project on social processes of cultural traumatisation in European Roma communities.

Maria Bogdan, media researcher and social scientist. PhD in Film, media and cultural theory at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Graduate and first Romani Rose Postdoctoral Researcher fellow at the Antigypsyism Research Center at Heidelberg University. Founding member and managing editor of the Critical Romani Studies journal.

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