Horia M. Dijmarescu

I am a Teaching Assistant Professor and Academic Advisor at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Political Science.  I am also affiliated with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center, Global Studies Center, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program. I teach Intro. to Global Studies, Fascism and Its Discontents, Gender and Global Politics, and other political science courses (read more). I also lead the Identity and Global Politics in Romania study abroad program (read more).

I earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University, specializing in International Relations and Political Theory. ​My academic interests include world politics, global rules and norms, transnational political discourse, politics of identity, politics of tourism, mass atrocity crimes and human rights, invisible power, intervention, philosophy of science, anti-racist pedagogy. 

My dissertation research was on actors justify or contest actions, examining wartime use of incendiary munitions and the legitimation of forms of governance in response to conflagrations. The project traces how discursively invoked rules constitute rhetorical resources through which actors (re)produce and negotiate meanings of rules themselves. More recently, my work has focused on the normalization of animus against sexual and gender identity minorities, and on the ways that transnational heritage tourism economies change the identity of communities (read more).

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Photo credit: "The Great Fire of London." Unknown artist. Courtesy of the London Fire Brigade.