Tea Sindbæk Andersen is an associate professor in Eastern European Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on the contemporary history of Southeastern Europe, particularly issues related to cultural memory, the use of history, identity politics, and popular culture in the former Yugoslav region.
She is the author of Usable History? Representations of Yugoslavia’s Difficult Past from 1945 to 2002 (Aarhus UP 2012), which examines how internal Yugoslav massacres and genocides committed during World War II have been portrayed and discussed in historical communication and popular culture in socialist Yugoslavia and its successor states. In later projects, she has researched how the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been remembered in literature, history education, and public monuments.
Tea Sindbæk Andersen, together with Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, is also the editor of Disputed Memory: Emotions and Memory Politics in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (De Gruyter 2016) and The Twentieth Century in European Memory: Transcultural Mediation and Reception (Brill 2018).
From 2016 to 2021, Tea Sindbæk Andersen was a member of the executive committee of the Memory Studies Association, and together with Jessica Ortner, she organized the MSA Annual Conference 2017 in Copenhagen, which gathered over 600 memory scholars from around the world.
She is the principal investigator for the collective research project Postwar Memory Generations: Contested Memory, Historical Narratives, and History Education in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia (2023-2025): https://ccrs.ku.dk/research/centres-and-projects/postwar-memory-generations/
