Mihaela Mihai

Dr Mihaela Mihai (she/her) is a Senior Lecturer in Political Theory in the School of Social and Political Science at Edinburgh. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for Ethics and Critical Thought. Her research interests cut across political theory, philosophy, aesthetics and social theory. Between 2015-2020, she led a 5-year European Research Council Starting Grant project entitled: Illuminating the ‘Grey Zone’: Addressing Complex Complicity in Human Rights Violations. She is currently currently the PI of an AHRC Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Environmental Emotions.

More precisely, Mihaela is interested in issues related to:

• The politics of memory
• Art and politics
• Social epistemology
• Feminist and gender theory
• Political emotions 
• Political judgment.

Mihaela is author of:

• Negative Emotions and Transitional Justice (Columbia University Press, 2016)
• Political Memory and the Aesthetics of Care: The Art of Complicity and Resistance (Stanford University Press, forthcoming January 2022)

Mihaela has also authored and published multiple articles in journals such as Political Studies, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Constellations, European Journal of Political Theory, among others.  She has recently completed a 5-year European Research Council Starting Grant project entitled: Illuminating the 'Grey Zone': Addressing Complex Complicity in Human Rights Violations.