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Place of Birth: Hunedoara, Hunedoara County, Romania
About Mihaela Miroiu
- Mihaela Miroiu (born 1955 in Hunedoara, Romania) is a Romanian political theorist and feminist philosopher. 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 had permanently got actively involved in the society through institutional, civic and mediatic journals regarding philosophy, political science and the process of democratization in Romania.
- In 2000, she instituted the first postdoctoral programme of Political Science in Romania at Faculty of Political Science, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest.
- She added in the university curricula courses like feminist philosophy at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Philosophy.
- In 2001, she had coordinated and the first collection of Gender Studies, Polirom Publishing.
- Moreover, her involvement developed the Political Science Curricula in accordance to the Bologna Programme, being a member of the evaluation commission in 1997. 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.Between 1997 and 2001, Mihaela Miroiu was the dean of the Faculty of Political Science, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest.
- Currently she is a professor at the same educational institution.
- She is teaching Actual Political Ideologies, Ethics in International Relations and Feminist Political Theories.
- Her research interest refer to domains such as political theories, feminist political theories, ethical politics and gender policies.
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