Dr Iulia Statica

Iulia Statica’s research explores urban transformation in postsocialist contexts, focusing on women’s experiences of domesticity and landscape and the ways these intersect with state planning and policy frameworks including questions of reproductive justice and natality, as well as with feminised migration processes that emerged as a post–Cold War condition. Her research inquires into legacies of socialist urban planning, environments and infrastructures in Eastern Europe, and their interactions with postcolonial geographies of Asia and late-socialist states such as Cuba. In 2025 she was awarded the Mellon Fellowship in Democracy and Landscape, at Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard University institute in Washington DC. Between 2019 and 2021 she was a Marie Curie Research Fellow at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where she developed the project "Gender, Infrastructure, and the Production of Domesticity in the Postsocialist City". 

She employs documentary film as both a research method and practice; her film "My Socialist Home" premiered in the 2021 exhibition "Archiving the Home: Gender and Domesticity in Postsocialist Bucharest" in London. Previously, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies (Latin American Studies Program) at Cornell University (2018–2019) and a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto (2013–2014). Iulia holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Rome La Sapienza, and is the author of "Urban Phantasmagorias: Domesticity, Production and the Politics of Modernity in Communist Bucharest" (Routledge, 2024).