ROSE SMITH

I research how societies remember, represent, and make meaning of the past, with particular interests in museums, the Cold War and the communist past, and their contemporary cultural and political significance.
My current research develops the concept of the post-communist exotic, examining museums in Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Smith, R. (2025). “Exhibiting the Post-Communist Exotic: Nostalgia, Humour, and Commodification in Kitschified Museum Exhibitions.” Dějiny – Teorie – Kritika, no. 2 (December): 83–114.
Smith, R. (2022). “The Museal Production of Hungary’s Inorganic Past and Poland’s Postponed Victory / The Case of the House of Terror and the Warsaw Rising Museum.” Soudobé dějiny, 29(3): 825-851.
Smith, R. (2021). “An American’s Museum of Communism in Prague.” WerkstattGeschichte, 29(83): 121-124.