Florentina C. Andreescu
Department Chair
Dr. Florentina C. Andreescu holds a doctoral degree in International Studies from the University of Miami. Combining insights from the study of politics, global economy, and psychoanalysis, her research examines issues of radical social change, embodiment, social trauma, and identity. She has published extensively in scholarly journals and is the author of From Communism to Capitalism: Nation and State in Romanian Cultural Production (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and co-editor, with Michael Shapiro, of Genre and the (Post-)Communist Woman: Analyzing Transformations of the Central and Eastern European Female Ideal (Routledge, 2014). Her most recent publication, Existence Hacked: Meaning, Freedom, Death, and Intimacy in the Age of AI (AI & SOCIETY, 2024), explores the implications of artificial intelligence for human experience.
Education
Ph.D., International Studies, University of Miami
M.A., International Administration, University of Miami
B.A., International Transactions, Dunărea de Jos University, Romania