[6] In the spring of 2009, she was a fellow at apexart arts center,[7] and later that year she became assistant professor in the field of cultural theory at the Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research "Euro-Balkan" (Skopje), where she taught in the period 2009 - 2013.

[11] In 2016 - 2018, she was awarded a Saul Kagan Post-doctoral Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies by the Claims Conference for her research "The Jews from Macedonia and the Holocaust: Race, Citizenship, Deportation."

Her interdisciplinary and inter-historical scientific investigation was focused on the questions of race and nation in the 20th century through the example of various Holocaust experiences of Macedonian Jews, including those from Vardar Macedonia and those residing on the territory of Yugoslavia.

Grandakovska investigated their institutional (social, religious and professional) integration in the new American environment that provided a new geographical reference for this group and participated into a new cultural narrative of the 20th century history of these immigrant settlements.

The subject she teaches explores matters of "culture and crime" manifested in violent form, with a particular emphasis on colonialism, war, and genocide in various societies, territories and times.

[15] The Portrait of the Image (2010) is a collection that unifies research carried out in twelve different themes, all connected to the interpretation of literary phenomena and of the forms of artistic and spiritual expression in the medieval and the contemporary epochs.

[18] Miniatures and Maximums (2020) is a collection of literary scientific critical studies and essays on a range of topics, with the point of contact around the role of the literature in the contemporary social context.

[20][21] She is editor, author of the foreword and a co-author of the bilingual chrestomathy The Jews from Macedonia and the Holocaust: History, Theory, Culture [Евреите од Македонија и холокаустот: историја, теорија, култура] (2011).

[28][29] Another area of her research on this topic is the fate of the Macedonian Jews who, during World War II, happened to be outside Macedonia, in other territories occupied by the Nazis.

She uncovered the names of about 200 Macedonian Jews murdered in the early phase of the Holocaust by the German occupier in Serbia and its collaborator, the quisling government of Milan Nedić and by the Ustashas in the Nazi satellite Independent State of Croatia.