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Dr. Jill Massino is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Her research focuses on gender, Cold War dynamics, and socio-political transitions in Romania and Eastern Europe. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University (2007) and has published extensively on socialist and postsocialist Romania's cultural, political, and gendered dimensions.
Her current book project, Friends in Need, examines Romania's Global South relationships during the Cold War. She teaches courses including Gender and War in the Twentieth Century, Modern Revolutions, and History of Europe since 1660. Her work bridges Cold War international relations, gender studies, and everyday life under state socialism.
Key research themes include: historical memory, socialist consumption patterns, citizen-state interactions under Ceaușescu, and gendered transitions from socialism to capitalism. She co-edited Gender Politics and Everyday Life in State Socialist Eastern and Central Europe (2009) and hosts a podcast on the New Books Network.
Her publications analyze topics such as Romanian responses to the Vietnam War, economic transition ambiguities, and civic mobilization post-1989. Grants and institutional affiliations include teaching roles in the university's Prospect Program and Dowd initiative.
