Academic title: Associate Professor (tenured position)

CV| Andreea Zamfira, PhD in political and social sciences at the University of Bucharest and Université Libre de Bruxelles, university teacher since 2010. Currently, she is associate professor at FSPUB, associate researcher at CEREFREA Bucharest and CEVIPOL Brussels, member of the editorial/scientific/peer review boards of Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review, Studia Securitatis and Eon. She carried out research and professional internships at Sciences Po Paris, Université de Lyon, Université Libre de Bruxelles, etc.

Research fields: Ethnic Germans in Romania – history, memory, imaginary (social and televisual representations); ethnic studies (ethnicity, nation, national construction, nationalism, national minorities, national identities, politics of identity); political sociology of pluriethnic societies (ethnic parties, electoral behavior).

Courses: SPF, SPE, RISE, MSE

Recent publications:

• “Die Deutschen in Rumänien: Ihre visuelle Darstellung im Fernsehen und ihre ideologisch-geheimdienstliche Konzeption in der Ära Ceaușescu”/ “Germanii din România: imagine televizuală și construcție ideologico-securitară în Epoca Ceaușescu”, in Corneliu Pintilescu, Roger Pârvu (eds.), Die visuelle Kultur im kommunistischen Rumänien. Zwischen Tendenzen der Liberalisierung und stalinistischen Restriktionen/ Cultura vizuală în România comunistă. Între tendințe de liberalizare și restricțiile stalinismului târziu, Mega, Cluj-Napoca, 2022 (print version released in 2024 – https://edituramega.ro/ro/die-visuelle-kultur-im-kommunistischen-rumanien-cultura-vizuala-in-romania-comunista.html).
• “Symbolic Nationalism in Mixed Communities: Comparing Hungarians and Saxons in their Interaction with Ethnic Romanians in Transylvania” (coautor: Dragoș Dragoman), in Csaba Zahorán (ed.), Symbolic Nation-building in Central and Eastern Europe in the Long 20th Century. Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, 2023 (în curs de publicare).
• ”The Romanian Television (RTV) Program in German in the Context of the National Communist Regime’s Minority and Cultural Policies (1969-1985)”, Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2022, pp. 123-146.

Topics for BA/MA coordination:  (1) democracy and media/political communication, (2) nation, national identities, nationalism, transnationalism, post-nationalism (theories, relevant case studies), (3) ethnic minorities/linguistic communities, diasporic communities in Europe: identity and memory politics & conflicting memories, voting/electoral behavior & political representation, (4) Germans in Romania: political history, identity and memory, social and media representations.

Office hours: Friday, 8.30-11.20, with details previously established by email.

E-mail: andreea.zamfira@fsp.unibuc.ro