Emi Finkelstein (b. 1991, New York, USA) is an art historian, curator, cultural researcher, and writer who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. She is currently in the final months of her PhD project, entitled “Beyond the Wall: Orienting, (Re)Constructing, and Globalizing Post-Socialist Museums in the Former German Democratic Republic” (University of Pittsburgh, USA, 2023). Her dissertation examines the historical legacy and contemporary function of several cultural institutions in former East Germany, situating them in temporal and spatial terms on the threshold of multiple Europes. Her work is deeply invested in the construction of horizontal narratives, the development and subversion of memory cultures, and the politics of new public spaces in East Central Europe after 1989. Finkelstein completed her MLitt at the University of Glasgow (UK) in 2016 and her BA in Art History and German at Bryn Mawr College (USA) in 2014; both her undergraduate and master theses examined East German art and architecture in the frame of their reception after 1989. Finkelstein has been awarded fellowships from the DAAD, the Fulbright Commission, and the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She has presented her work for the German Studies Association, the Transatlantic Institute for East German Art, and the Igor Zabel Association, among others.