Dr.Victoria Shmidt, a researcher at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, SOEGA/SEEHA Center of Southeastern European History and Anthropology, focuses on the issue of race science in East-Central European countries as an indispensable part of building the nations. She leads the project “Race science: Undiscovered power of building the nations” aimed at exploring the role of intercountry cooperation among the scholars from CEE countries in disseminating racial thinking. Her recent publications shed light on the historical continuities in reproducing structural violence in the politics concerning people with disabilities and Roma in Central Europe.