Residence Bucharest, Romanian Nationality Romanian | Name Mihaela Miroiu Role Author | |
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Institutions National School of Political Studies and Public Administration Fields Philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Feminism Similar People Adrian Miroiu, Vladimir Pasti, Gabriel Andreescu | ||
Daniel uncu in dialog cu prof univ dr mihaela miroiu
Mihaela Miroiu (born 1955 in Hunedoara, Romania) is a Romanian political theorist and feminist philosopher.
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She is the author of twelve books published in Romanian, including Road to Autonomy: Feminist Political Theories (Polirom, 2004), Priceless Women (Polirom 2006) and Convenio: On Women, Nature and Morals (Alternative Publishing House, 1996). She has also edited or co-edited nine volumes, most of them on feminism and feminist theory.
She founded the country’s first gender studies Master’s program in 1998, and helped to organize one of its earliest independent women’s nongovernmental organizations: AnA –The Romanian Society for Feminist Analyses. She is an expert advisor to both UNESCO and the European Union, and has won international fellowships at Cornell University, Oxford University and the Central European University in Budapest. She was also a Fulbright recipient and was resident in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University in 2003–2004.
In 2010, the U.S.-based Association of Women in Slavic Studies awarded her its Outstanding Achievement Award for her accomplishments as a philosopher and her mentorship of a new generation of young Romanian feminists. The European Institute for Gender Equality also featured her in its “Women Inspiring Europe” 2011 calendar.
Currently she is a professor at the Faculty of Political Science, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest.