Julie Deschepper
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Julie Deschepper is a Scientific Assistant at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence (Max-Planck-Institut). Trained both as a specialist in cultural heritage and a historian of Russia, she received her PhD from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris (2019). She is currently working on the publication of my first monograph on Soviet monumental heritage and Soviet conception of heritage, and her next project explores the afterlives of socialist objects in public and private collections across Europe. Her work has, among others, been published in the International Journal of Heritage Studies, and 20&21, and she was recently the guest editor of the Revue Russe.
Prior to coming to the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, she was a Max Weber Fellow at the History and Civilization Department of the European University Institute (2019-20), a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Russian Studies Department of Inalco (2019), and a Junior Lecturer at the University Paris VIII (2018). From 2011 to 2014, she was a curatorial assistant in Paris Musées, Musée national d'art moderne and Musée Jean Moulin.
She is currently the co-coordinator of the Francophone network of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.