Mihaela Miroiu

Career

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 ). 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 was also a Fulbright recipient and was resident in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University in 2003–2004.

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.

Achievements

• She is an expert advisor to both United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the European Union, and has won international fellowships at Cornell University, Oxford University and the Central European University in Budapest. In 2010, the United States.-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.

Politics

She has also edited or co-edited nine volumes, most of them on feminism and feminist theory.