Academic title: Associate Professor (tenured position)

CV | Victor Rizescu. Studies in History (1991-1996) and in Philosophy (1993-1997) at the University of Bucharest, with MA (1997) and PhD (2003) degrees in History from the Central European University, Budapest. Doctoral (1997-1998) and post-doctoral (2004) fellowships at Oxford University. Teaching since 1998 at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Bucharest.

Researches underway on the interplay between ideological patters and public policies in the history of Romania, with a special focus on the development of social policies and the institutions of professional representation Wider area of interest: modernization and lags of development in Europe; nationalist and multicultural politics in historical perspective; ideological patters across the lags of development in European history

Courses taught: SPE (Politics and Society in Modern Europe, Revolution and Social Conflict in History), IRES (Politics and Society in Modern Europe), MPC (Nationalist Politics and Multiculturalist Theory in History, Regional Identities and Ideological Development in Eastern Europe)

Recent publications:

• “Anii 1860. Un punct de inflexiune al dinamicii ideologice românești”,  Academica. Revistă editată de Academia Română 35: 3-4, 2025, pp. 76-81
• “From Right-wing Liberalism to the Modernist Right: a Romanian Strand of the Modernizing Drive Intertwining with the Culture of Traditionalism”, Cultural History: Journal of the International Society for Cultural History 14: 1, 2025, pp. 45-68
• “Introduction: Democratization, National Identity and Collective Memory in Modern Romania”, Cultural History: Journal of the International Society for Cultural History 14: 1, 2025, pp. 1-4
• “Democratization, National Identity and Collective Memory in Modern Romania”, Cultural History: Journal of the International Society for Cultural History 14: 1, 2025, pp. 1-122 (editor)
• Doctrinele muncii și politica profesiunilor. Sindicalism, corporatism și cooperație în România interbelică, Chișinău, Cartier, 2024
• Ideology, Nation and Modernization: the Romanian Patterns in Comparative and Theoretical Frameworks, sec. ed. rev., Târgoviște, Cetatea de Scaun, 2024
• “O derivă a anticarlismului. Grigore Forțu, Blocul Cetățenesc pentru Mântuirea Țării și antimonarhismul de dreapta”, in Dan Mihalache, Sabin Drăgulin, coord., Regimuri politice totalitare și autoritare în Italia și Europa Orientală în perioada interbelică, București, Curtea Veche, 2024
• “Camerele profesionale. Un reper al autoritarismului moderat în România interbelică”, in Sorin Liviu Damean, coord., Elite, societate și putere (secolele XVI-XX), Craiova, Universitaria/ Cluj-Napoca, Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2023, pp. 376-397

Topics for BA/MA coordination:  (1) parties and ideologies in historical and comparative perspective, (2) modernization in Eastern Europe, (3) nationalism and multiculturalism in historical perspective, (4) syndicalism and labor politics in historical and comparative perspective

Office hours: Tuesday, 19.30-20.30, by appointment by email

E-mail: victor.rizescu@fspub.unibuc.ro