Caterina Preda holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Bucharest (2008) and is currently an Odobleja Fellow at the Advanced Studies Center, New Europe College in Bucharest. Caterina has been the recipient of several undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships in Europe and South America. A Senior Lecturer (tenured) at the University of Bucharest, Department of Political Sciences, she teaches Contemporary Latin America, Art and Politics, and Cultural Memory in Eastern Europe and South America courses. She works on topics related to art and politics in modern dictatorships in Latin America and Eastern Europe as well as issues related to the art of memorialization in the two areas. Caterina has published several scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals, as well as chapters in volumes published at important publishing houses such as Routledge and Palgrave. Caterina is currently working on a book project comparing several cases in the Southern  Cone and Eastern  Europe from the perspective  of the relation between art and politics.