Dr. Mihaela Mihai

Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh

Co-Director, Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought, University of Edinburgh

Mihaela Mihai is a Senior Lecturer in political theory at the University of Edinburgh and a co-director of the Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought. Her research focuses on political memory, art and politics, social epistemology and political emotions. She is the author of two monographs Negative Emotions and Transitional Justice (Columbia University Press, 2016) and of Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance (Stanford University Press, 2022) and numerous articles published in journals such as Political Studies, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Constellations, International Journals of Transitional Justice, and Journal of Political Philosophy. Mihai has recently completed a 5 years’ European Research Council Starting Grant dedicated to the study of complicity with and resistance against violent political regimes.

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