Professional/research work Feldman participated at many international conferences in Croatia, US, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, UK, Poland, Turkey, Slovakia, Belgium and Italy. During her stay in the US, she regularly participated in the work of the
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She is Croatian representative at the
International Federation for Research in Women's History since 1989. Between 1987 and 1988, she was a researcher and associate at
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and in the fall of 1993 a junior researcher at the Austrian
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen. In 1996, she worked for the
Sterling Memorial Library transcribing, translating and cataloging testimonies of Holocaust survivors from Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Holocaust Archives. Friedman collaborated with the Yale Psychiatric Institute, working as a translator and co-worker on a posttraumatic stress disorder research.
University work In 1992, Feldman worked as an assistant at the Department of History at Yale University where she lectured subjects including the
History of International Communism. Between 1992 and 1993, she lectured the initial degree of Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian languages at the Department of Slavic Studies at Yale. In the fall semester of 1995, she lectured subject
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Evolution of Multicultural Society. In 1996, she became assistant to prof. Mark Steinberg on the subject
Russian Culture (1824-1990). Between 1985 and 2020 Feldman worked at the
Croatian Institute of History. In the academic year 2002-03, she lectured subject
History of Serbs for students of a special program of Serbian language, history, and culture at the Faculty of Teacher Education of the
University of Zagreb. Between 2002 and 2004, she advised
Foreign Ministers Tonino Picula and
Miomir Žužul on human rights and civil society. In 2004, she was appointed a director of the
Open Society Institute - Croatia. She worked at the position until 2006 when she became executive director of the
Institute for Democracy. In 2008, she was appointed a deputy director of the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences. As an external associate at the University Department for Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb, she lectured subject Women/Gender History in the 19th and 20th centuries. She also taught courses in History and Culture of the West (from the French Revolution to the Fall of the Berlin Wall) and the Political and Cultural Formations of the South Slavic Nations at the University of Business Studies in
Banja Luka. In the academic year 2010-11, she lectured subject of Comparative Politics at the School of Science and Technology of the
University of Sarajevo. In addition, she also lectured at the
University of London,
University College London and
King's College. Feldman is a member of the ''Croatian Writers' Society'' (HDP), and member of the Management Board of the Croatian branch of
PEN International. ==Political career==