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Agustín Cosovschi, PhD

Research Associate

Agustín Cosovschi is a historian. He completed his PhD at the EHESS in France and the University of San Martín in Argentina. His research deals primarily with the history of the Cold War in Southeast Europe from a global perspective. His works combine approaches in political and intellectual history with digital methods in mapping and network analysis. He also serves as a member of the editorial team of The Programming Historian.

He is also the holder of the €1.5 million five-year ERC project “Brokers of Non-Alignment: Biographical and Network Approaches to the Making of the Third World” (Brokers-of-NAM), which was submitted to the panel for the study of the human past. He is the first ERC project holder to embark on an independent research career in the field of human past studies in Slovenia. With the present research project, he will shed light on how the Cold War unfolded in Third World countries. As part of the research, he will study the life paths of five actors from Lebanon, Cyprus, Chile, Burma, and Yugoslavia, who played a central role in shaping the Non-Aligned Movement and promoting anti-colonial and anti-imperialist ideas in the Third World. At the same time, the project marks an original approach to using digital tools for historical research.

Education

Joint Ph.D. in History, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina) and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (France)

Employment

  • 2025 – present: Research Associate, Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino
  • 2022-2025: postdoctoral researcher, École française d’Athènes
  • 2020-2022: research assistant, University of Paris Nanterre
  • 2019-2021: adjunct lecturer, Catholic University of Lille
  • 2018-2019: DAAD postdoctoral fellow, Humboldt Univerasity, Germany.

Research Interests

Areas of research: political and intellectual history, Cold War, digital humanities

Mobility and fellowships

  • 2022 Research fellow in Digital Humanities, German Historical Institute Paris (2 months).
  • 2022 Visegrad scholarship, Open Society Archives, Budapest (2 months).
  • 2020 Short visiting fellowship, Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, Regensburg (3 weeks).
  • 2020 Visiting fellowship, Center of Advanced Study, Sofia (5 months; granted, not effected).
  • 2019 OeAD Ernst Mach Grant, Center for South East European Studies, University of Graz, Graz (5 months).
  • 2018 – 2019 DAAD Postdoctoral research fellowship, Historical Institute, Humboldt University, Berlin (10 months).
  • 2017 Short visiting fellowship, Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb (1 month).
  • 2015-2016 Eiffel Scholarship, French Ministry of Education (10 months).

Scientific networks

  • AFEBALK: Association Française d’études sur les Balkans.
  • Latin American Studies Association
  • Humanistica: Association francophone des humanités numériques

Selected publications

Monographs

  • 2024 (with José Luis Aguilar) Nueva historia del comunismo en Europa del Este, Buenos Aires/Madrid, Siglo XXI.
  • 2022 Les sciences sociales face à la crise : une histoire intellectuelle de la dissolution yougoslave (1980-1995), Paris: Karthala. Collective volumes

Collective volumes

  • In press (with Pablo Sánchez León) European Perspectives on Transition: A Comparative and Transnational Approach to the History of a Political and Social Concept, Berghahn Books.

Articles

  • 2025 “Making and Remaking a Social Science: Croatian Sociology from Socialism to Post-Socialism”, Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences, 9(2), 15–32.
  • 2024 “Clashing visions of non-alignment: the origins of the Cuban-Yugoslav conflict,” Cold War History, vol. 25, issue 2, 197-217.
  • 2024 “Des sources aux données, concevoir une base de données en sciences humaines et sociales avec nodegoat”, Programming Historian en français 6 (2024), https://doi.org/10.46430/phfr0029

 

Supervision

Ph.D Supervision

Matias Figal, Contar una guerra, edificar un Estado. Un estudio de los vínculos entre las narrativas oficiales de la guerra en Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1995) y la construcción estatal de posguerra (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

E-mail:
agustin.cosovschi@inz.si

Research Projects