Giustino researches the history of the politics of culture in modern Central and Eastern Europe. She has worked extensively on the history of urban planning and historic preservation in Czechoslovakia, particularly in Prague and northern Bohemia; the seizure of cultural property from groups targeted for annihilation, expulsion and social leveling during and after the Second World War; and, most recently, the history of creativity in socialist Czechoslovakia, which she is examining through the lens of East bloc theories about and experiences of childhood.
Keywords:
- Modern Germany, Eastern Europe, 20th-century Europe
Her research expertise is urban planning and historic preservation in modern Prague.
