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.

- History, Historiography and Remembrance of World War Two and the Holocaust in Southeast Europe
- War crime trials in Eastern Europe
- Historical sociology and cultural history of Socialism
- Identities and identification policies in Southeast Europe

• Nadège Ragaru. « Et maintenant, où va-t-on ? » Le communisme en scène. Eur’Orbem Éditions, 402 p., 2025, Cultures & Sociétés, 979-10-96982-41-7. ⟨hal-05357805⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Elastic and Explosive Europe at a Time of War: How Can We Rethink European Cleavages and Linkages?. Piron, 2024, 26, 15 p. ⟨hal-04842277⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. "Et maintenant, où va-t-on?" Le communisme en scène. Eur'Orbem Éditions, 424 p., 2024, 979-10-96982-41-7. ⟨hal-04842220⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. The Dispossessed. Bulgarian Jews and the “Trial of the Anti-Semites,” 1944–1945. Rory Yeomans (ed.). A Marketplace Without Jews. Aryanization and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, Routledge, 30 p., 2024, Routledge Studies in Second World War History, 9781032767413. ⟨hal-04823140⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. East-West Encounters at the Adolf-Heinz Beckerle Trial (1967-1968): How Holocaust Knowledge and Remembrance Went Global. Anna Koch and Stephan Stach (eds.). Holocaust Memory and the Cold War. Remembering across the Iron Curtain, De Gruyter, pp.147-172, 2024, 9783110672411. ⟨10.1515/9783110672657-007⟩. ⟨halshs-03069409⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Encore des élections ? La Bulgarie à la veille des scrutins du 9 juin. 2024. ⟨hal-04834642⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. A Heroic Narrative about Bulgaria, the Jews and the Holocaust?. 2023. ⟨hal-04317129⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. L’énigme de Kajluka (Bulgarie), 10-11 juillet 1944. Encyclopédie d'histoire numérique de l'Europe, 2023. ⟨hal-04282744⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. L'Église orthodoxe bulgare face à la Shoah : logiques individuelles et collectives. Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah/Collège des Bernardins. 1942, les Églises face à la persécution des Juifs (Actes en ligne), , 13 p., 2023. ⟨hal-04246851⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust. On the Origins of a Heroic Narrative. University of Rochester Press, 406 p., 2023, 9781648250705. ⟨hal-04274176⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Abîmes du terrain : impensés, indicibles. Critique Internationale, 2023, 2023/3 (N° 100), pp.129-138. ⟨10.3917/crii.100.0129⟩. ⟨hal-04203718⟩
• Thomas Brisson, Nadège Ragaru. Connexions, circulations. Retour sur les déclinaisons du « prisme circulatoire » au sein de "Critique internationale". Critique Internationale, 2023, 3 (100), pp.35-46. ⟨10.3917/crii.100.0035⟩. ⟨hal-04203633⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Histoire/ethnographie, dialogue : l'archive comme terrain. Critique Internationale, 2023, 2023/3 (N° 100), pp.75-80. ⟨10.3917/crii.100.0075⟩. ⟨hal-04203651⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. “Millions for the Movies” in Late Socialist Bulgaria: The Political and Moral Economy of the Cinema Industry. Sociétés politiques comparées, 2023, 59 (janvier-avril 2023), 28 p. ⟨hal-04087885⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Bulgarie, quelle sortie de crise ?. 2023. ⟨hal-04223249⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Se souvenir sélectivement. Les savoirs sur la Shoah en Bulgarie. Témoigner entre histoire et mémoire : revue pluridisciplinaire de la Fondation Auschwitz = Getuigen tussen geschiedenis en gedachtenis : multidisciplinair tijdschrift van de Auschwitz stichting, 2023, 136, pp.94-101. ⟨10.4000/temoigner.11844⟩. ⟨hal-04094119⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Among Neighbors and Relatives: Intercessions and Jewish Persecution Through the Lens of Bulgaria’s Postwar Trials (1944–45). Anna Wylegała; Sabine Rutar; Małgorzata Łukianow (eds). No Neighbors’ Lands in Postwar Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, pp.179-203, 2023, Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience, 9783031108563. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-10857-0_8⟩. ⟨hal-04062407⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Symbolic Time(s) of Violence in Late Socialist Bulgaria. Slavic Review, 2023, 82 (1), pp.48-68. ⟨10.1017/slr.2023.103⟩. ⟨hal-04195697⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. "There's No Place Like Home". "Return Policies" for Human Trafficking Victims in Bulgaria. Mathilde Darley (ed.). Trafficking and Sex Work. Gender, Race and Public Order, Routledge, pp.84-100, 2022, 9781003188971. ⟨10.4324/9781003188971-7⟩. ⟨hal-03887907⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. “И българските евреи бяха спасени…” История на знанията за Холокоста в България. Critique and Humanism Publishing, 2022, Varius, 9789545872457. ⟨hal-03847948⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. The Present’s Ever-Changing Past: Post-1989 Memory of the “Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews”. Nicolas Maslowski and Kinga Torbicka (eds.). Contested Legacies of 1989 Geopolitics, Memories and Societies in Central and Eastern Europe, Peter Lang, pp.135-163, 2022, 9783631857984. ⟨hal-03870307⟩
• Irina Tcherneva, Vanessa Voisin, Nadège Ragaru, Mate Zombory. East European Societies in Search of Accountability for Nazi War Crimes. ASEEES, Oct 2022, Chicago, United States. ⟨hal-03924192⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. « Vous êtes filmés ». Quand les agents du renseignement est-européens apprenaient leur métier par l’image. Alexandra Midal et Matthieu Orléan (dir.). Top secret - Cinéma & Espionnage, Flammarion, pp.224-228, 2022, 9782080283122. ⟨hal-03883066⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Justice in Mantle Coats: Shooting the Bulgarian People’s Courts in Revolutionary Times. Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva and Vanessa Voisin (eds.). Seeking Accountability for War Crimes in East and Central Europe. A People’s Justice?, 29, Rochester University Press, pp.31-77, 2022, Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe, 9781648250415. ⟨hal-03885314⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Monumentalités rivales : Skopje de pierre et de bronze. Pierre Sintès (dir.). Rue d'Alger. Art, mémoire, espace public, éditions MF, pp.303-317, 2022, 9782378040499. ⟨hal-03632530⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Le témoignage de Menahem Isaac Cohen, rescapé d’Auschwitz, devant la justice bulgare en mars 1945. Revue d'histoire de la Shoah, 2022, n° 215, pp.379-408. ⟨10.3917/rhsho.215.0379⟩. ⟨hal-03632497⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Crafting a Socialist Remembrance of the Holocaust. Konrad Wolf’s Zvezdi / Sterne from a Bulgarian Perspective. Jan Gerber; Philipp Graf; Anna Pollmann (dir.). Geschichtsoptimismus und Katastrophenbewusstsein. Europa nach dem Holocaust, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage, pp.151-178, 2022, 9783525317365. ⟨10.13109/9783666317361.151⟩. ⟨hal-03632894⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. The Present’s Ever-Changing Past: Post-1989 Memory of the “Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews”. Nicolas Maslowski and Kinga Torbicka (eds.). Contested Legacies of 1989. Geopolitics, Memories and Societies in Central and Eastern Europe, Peter Lang, pp.135-163, 2022, 9783631857984. ⟨halshs-03069080⟩
• Nadège Ragaru, Maël Le Noc. Visual Clues to the Holocaust: The Case of the Deportation of Jews from Northern Greece. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2021, 35 (3), pp.376-403. ⟨10.1093/hgs/dcab058⟩. ⟨hal-02875070⟩
• Milena Jakšić, Nadège Ragaru. Réparer l’exploitation sexuelle. Le dispositif d’indemnisation des victimes de traite en France. Cultures & conflits, 2021, 122, pp.123-140. ⟨10.4000/conflits.22965⟩. ⟨hal-03426656⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Bulgaria as Rescuer? Film Footage of the March 1943 Deportation and Its Reception across the Iron Curtain. East European Jewish Affairs, 2021, 51 (1), pp.36-69. ⟨10.1080/13501674.2021.1952025⟩. ⟨hal-03400717⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Figure de l’accusé en témoin de l’accusation : les circulations internationales des poursuites judiciaires des crimes de la Shoah en Bulgarie. Revue d'histoire de la Shoah, 2021, 2021/2 (214), pp.121-148. ⟨10.3917/rhsho.214.0121⟩. ⟨halshs-03368110⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Entretien avec Nadège Ragaru - « Et les Juifs bulgares furent sauvés… ». Une histoire des savoirs sur la Shoah en Bulgarie. 2021. ⟨hal-03384135⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. What We Talk About When We (Do not) Talk about the Holocaust in Bulgaria. Südosteuropa Mitteilungen, 2021, 2021/2-3 (61), pp.61 - 72. ⟨hal-03380825⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. La Bulgarie a-t-elle « sauvé » ses Juifs ?. L'Histoire, 2021, 482. ⟨hal-03566284⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Écritures visuelles, sonores et textuelles de la justice. Une autre histoire des procès à l'Est. Nadège Ragaru. Cahiers du Monde russe, 61 (3/4), pp.223, 2021, ⟨10.4000/monderusse.12003⟩. ⟨hal-03366768⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. « Le sauvetage des Juifs bulgares » : controverses et renouveau historiographique. 2021. ⟨hal-03156520⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Voir, écouter, lire les procès à l’Est de l’Europe : un nouveau chantier historiographique. Cahiers du Monde russe, 2021, 61 (3/4 (2020)), pp.275-296. ⟨10.4000/monderusse.12008⟩. ⟨halshs-03068434⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Les contours de la Shoah en Bulgarie. 2021. ⟨hal-03156519⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Kum vsishko -- ljubopitsvo, ot vishko – znanie, s vsishki -- spodeljane (v chest na Liljana Dejanova). Vreme i pamet. Jubileen sbornik za 70-godishninata na Liljana Dejanova, Universitetsko izdatelstvo “Sv. Kliment Ohridski”, pp.29-44, 2021. ⟨halshs-03368125⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. « Et les Juifs bulgares furent sauvés… ». Une histoire des savoirs sur la Shoah en Bulgarie. Presses de Sciences Po, 382 p., 2020, Académique, 9782724626506. ⟨hal-02998856⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Quatre questions sur les mobilisations sociales en Bulgarie. Entretien avec Nadège Ragaru. 2020. ⟨hal-02951407⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Social movements in Bulgaria. 2020. ⟨hal-02990708⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Des études slaves à la soviétologie : la construction des savoirs sur l'Europe médiane et la Russie à l'Ecole libre des sciences politiques. Antoine Marès. La France et l’Europe médiane : construction des savoirs savants, Institut d'études slaves, pp.41 - 68, 2020, 9782720405624. ⟨hal-02951408⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Verschränkte Geschichte. Konrad Wolfs‚ Sterne’ (1959) aus bulgarischer Perspektive. Jan Gerber, Philipp Graf and Anna Pollmann (eds.). Geschichtsoptimismus und Katastrophenbewusstsein. Europa nach dem Holocaust, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, In press, 9783525317365. ⟨halshs-03069652⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Justice in Mantle Coats. Shooting the Bulgarian People’s Courts in Revolutionary Times (1944-1945). Eric le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva and Vanessa Voisin (eds.). That Justice be done: Social Impulses and Professional Contribution to the Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes, 1940s–1980s,, Rochester University Press, In press, 9781648250415. ⟨halshs-03068895⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Écritures visuelles, sonores et textuelles de la justice : une autre histoire des procès à l’Est. Cahiers du Monde russe, 61 (3-4), 223 p., 2020. ⟨halshs-03068427⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. The unbearable lightness of Bulgarian Socialism: The movie Life Goes Quietly By – 1957. Jérôme Bazin; Joanna Kordjak. Cold Revolution. Central and Eastern European Societies in Times of Socialist Realism (1948-1959), Mousse, pp.240 - 247, 2020, 9788867494507. ⟨hal-03068409⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. The Prosecution of Anti-Jewish Crimes in Bulgaria: Fashioning a Master Narrative of the Second World War (1944–1945). East European Politics and Societies, 2019, 33 (4), pp.941 - 975. ⟨10.1177/0888325419857146⟩. ⟨hal-03028512⟩
• Nadège Ragaru. Assignés à identités. Violence d’État et expériences minoritaires dans les Balkans post-ottomans. The Isis Press Istanbul, 340 p., 2019, 9789754286311. ⟨hal-03024209⟩
• Milena Jakšić, Nadège Ragaru. Le témoignage comme preuve. Itinéraires judiciaires des victimes. Présentation du dossier. Droit et Société : Revue internationale de théorie du droit et de sociologie juridique, 2019, Les victimes au tribunal : du témoignage à la preuve judiciaire, 2019/2 (102), pp.227-241. ⟨10.3917/drs1.102.0227⟩. ⟨hal-02347103⟩