Mihaela Miroiu - Curriculum Vitae#

I was Professor of Political Sciences in the Political Science Faculty at the National School for Political Studies and Public Administration (NSPSA), Bucharest, Romania

My research area encompasses the fields of moral philosophy, feminist philosophy, political theory, feminist political theories, and political ethics), post-communist transition, and gender and politics.

Main initiatives and contributions:

I. To the Evolution of Philosophy and Political Theory in Romania:

Ethics:

• I was the editor of the first Philosophy handbook for high schools after the collapse of communism (1992-1999)
  
• My book: The Shadow’s Thoughts. Feminist approaches in Philosophy (1995) was the first of its kind in our philosophical space. *In my book: On Nature, Women and Morals (1966) I developed a new approach in ethics: the convenience theory.
  
• The first dictionary on feminism: Lexicon Feminist (Feminist Lexicon) 2002, as co-editor with Otilia Dragomir
  
• The first book on Feminist Political Theory: (The Road to Autonomy) (2004)
  
• I have used the ethical criteria of autonomy (in the Kantian meaning) in order to classify and characterize the political ideologies, in my capacity as editor (Contemporary political Ideologies, 2012)

Political theory

• The initiation of the analyses concerning The Left Conservatism in Post communism (Publication: Backward-looking Society, 1999) Presentation IPSA Congress, Quebec, August, 2000) International Congress of Political Science Association, 2000.
  
• Feminist Political Theories: The concept of “room-service feminism”; a comparative approach of the theoretical frameworks of political feminism; gender politics in post-communist transition; in the volume: (The Road to Autonomy), 2004, and State Men Market Women, 2004
  
• Political Analyses: illiberal democracy as show-room democracy; the obstacles of the reconstruction of public sphere Romania. Starea de fapt (Romania: Matter of Facts) (with Vladimir Pasti si Cornel Codita.), 1997
  
• Large research of women and the democratic citizenship, published with Maria Bucur: The Birth of Democratic Citizenship (co-author Maria Bucur), Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2018

Institutional contributions for the development of Philosophy and Political science in Romania

• The first classes in Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy Faculty, Bucharest University (1994)
  
• The management and the development of the Faculty of Political Science, NSPSPA as Dean: 1997 - 2001
  
• The initiation and coordination of the first PhD Program in Political Science (2000)
  
• The evaluation and the institutional development of Political Science in Romania as expert for quality assurance CNEAA (since 1997, CNATDCU (1999-2003): the curriculum development post-Bologna (CNEAA)
  
• The dissemination of the research within international and national congresses and conferences.
  
• International relations within the field with Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
  
• President of the Social Science Commission, CNATDCU, Bucharest, Romania, 2010 - 2011

II. Gender Studies and Gender politics:

• The initiation of Gender Studies in Romania, 1993
  
• The initiation of the first MA in Gender Studies in Romania: 1998
  
• The initiation and coordination of the first collection series in Gender studies, Polirom Publishing House, since 1999
  
• The first Guide for Gender Equity in Higher Education in Eastern Europe, UNESCO, 2003
  
• Projects on Gender politics in education for the Ministry of Education and Research, 2005
  
• Coordinator of the MA in Gender Politics, 1998 - 2012

III. Ethics

• The first handbook on Professional ethics with Gabriela Blebea, 2001
  
• The first class on Ethics in Politics (1997)
  
• The coordination of the first national research on Ethics in Romanian Universities and the Project of Ethical Code for Universities, adopted by MER, 2005

IV. Education and Educational Policies

• The first program and handbook for Civic Culture in High Schools, 1995
  
• The coordination of the reform in teaching Philosophy in High Schools, 1993
  
• Political analyses applied to education, 1998.
  
• Analyses of Gender Politics in Education, UNESCO, 2001, 2003

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