Felicia Waldman (PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bucharest, 2001) is associate professor at the Center for Hebrew Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest. She coordinates the Center and the Goldstein Goren MA program in Hebrew Culture and Civilization. She is a longstanding member of several international academic associations (Association for the Study of Nationalities, Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies, Association of Israel Studies, etc.) visiting professor at the State University of Milan, Paul Valery University of Montpellier and “Al. I. Cuza” University of Iasi, guest professor at the Romanian Diplomatic Institute of Bucharest and affiliated professor of Haifa University. Her expertise covers Jewish mysticism, Romanian Jewish history and heritage, Holocaust education, public policies and practices of remembrance, politics of identity in multicultural contexts, lessons of history in migration and integration. She benefited from scholarships granted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Brandeis University, Oxford University and the Central European University in Budapest. She has published 5 books and over 50 articles and has co-edited 4 volumes on these topics. During the last 20 years she coordinated 13 international research projects on the Romanian Jewish history and heritage and was invited to deliver papers in over 100 international conferences. She has also been consultant for 4 documentary films and curator to 6 exhibitions. She is Deputy Head of the Romanian Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, member and former Chair of the organization’s Education Working Group and member of its Committee on the Roma Genocide.
Tel: +40722309393, adress: Facultatea de Litere, Str. Edgar Quinet 5-7, sector 1, Bucuresti