My name is Mihaela Mihai and I am a Professor of Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh.
My research interests cut across political theory, political science and cultural studies. More precisely, I am interested in political emotions, political judgment, the politics of memory, art and politics, gender, and theories of oppression.
Before coming to Edinburgh, I was appointed as the 50th Anniversary Lecturer in Politics at the University of York. Previously, I spent one year as a researcher at the Centre for Research in Ethics at the University of Montreal, Canada and two years at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal. I held visiting positions at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University and the Philosophy Department at Sydney University.
Between 2015-2020 I led and ERC Starting Grant dedicated to the study of the structural underpinnings of violence and widespread complicity in human rights violations. In 2023, Danielle Celermajer (Sydney University) and I obtained an AHRC Network Grant to examine the political import of eco-emotions.
I can be contacted at: mihaela.mihai (at) ed.ac.uk