Nadège Ragaru, a historian and political scientist, is Research Professor at Sciences Po Paris (Center for international studies, CERI-CNRS) where she teaches among others the transnational history of war crime trials. She was formerly Visiting Scholar at Oxford University (Nuffield College, Trinity term 2017) and Reid Hall Fellow at Columbia University (1999-2000). In 2018, she defended her Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) at the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS). She also holds a PhD in Political science from Sciences Po Paris, a Master’s Degree in Soviet and East European Studies (Sciences Po Paris), a Master’s Degree in Political science (Sciences Po Paris), a Master’s Degree in International Affairs (USC), as well as a Bachelor from Sciences Po Paris (top of the year 1992). She joined the CERI in 2008.

Ragaru has been a consultant for various international and national organizations such as the European Parliament, the OSCE (electoral observer and supervisor), the French Parliament, and the Human rights Department of the DGCID/French ministry of European and Foreign Affairs. After taking part in the evaluation and recruitment activities of Section 40 (political science and sociology of work and organizations) of the CNRS National Committee, she joined Section 4 of the Conseil national des universités (CNU, in charge of evaluating political scientists in France). A member of the scientific council of the TRIAC pole (Turkey, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia) of the French Research Institutes Abroad (UMIFRE, MEAE-CNRS) and of the History Commission of the Foundation for Holocaust Memory (Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah, France), she also seats on the scientific board of the CNRS sponsored research network dedicated to Central and Southeast European Studies (GDR n°. 3607, « Connaissance de l’Europe médiane ») and on the board of the French Association for Russian and East European Studies in Social Sciences (SFERES). A member of the editorial boards of the peer-reviewed journals, Critique internationale and Balkanologie, and of the scientific board of the peer-reviewed open access journal, Comparative Southeast European Studies, she is also a member of the scientific board (Conseil d’unité) of the CERI.

Her research centers on the history, historiography and memory of World War Two, the Holocaust and socialism in Southeast Europe, as well as on ethnicity and identities in Southeast Europe. Her last open access book, Bulgaria, The Jews and the Holocaust. On the Origins of a Heroic Narrative (RUP, 2023) earlier appeared in Bulgarian (2022) and in French (2020). Within the Research Program ANR « Nazi war crimes in the courtroom - Central and Eastern Europe 1943-1991 » coordinated by Vanessa Voisin (University of Bologna), she co-coordinated with Emilia Koustova (University of Strasbourg) the research package « The manifold temporalities of justice. » She is currently working on a book project dedicated to end-of-war trials for anti-Jewish crimes in Bulgaria, as well as on a collection of articles dedicated to the visual history of socialism in Bulgaria.