Oana Băluță

Oana Băluță

Associate Professor

Office:
30A Expoziției Blvd., Room 719

Courses taught

  • Feminist Political Theories (Politics, Gender and Minorities master’s programme, year 1, semester 1)
  • Gender, Minorities and Political Representation (Politics, Gender and Minorities master’s programme, year 1, semester 2)
  • Political Communication and Campaigns (Political Science master’s programme, year 1, semester 1)

Master’s · Political Science

Master’s · Politics, Gender and Minorities

Research interests

  • Gender and political representation
  • Anti-gender politics and campaigns
  • Gender-based violence
  • The feminist movement in Romania since 1990
  • Media, politics and democracy

Short biography

Oana Băluță completed the master’s programme in Gender and Public Policy at SNSPA, where she earned a PhD in political science with a dissertation on gender and political interests in Romania. From 2008 to 2024 she taught at the University of Bucharest’s Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences, where she holds an adjunct appointment.

Her publications examine political representation, mobilisation against gender-based violence, Romania’s feminist movement and anti-gender discourse in the media. Since 2025 she has led the University of Bucharest’s work on YOU-DARE, a Horizon Europe project on the far right’s arguments about gender. She has served on the management committee of COST Action CA23149 since 2024.

She led the FILIA Centre for eight years, until 2013, and has spent more than two decades advocating for equality and working to combat gender-based violence.

Publications

  • Where to? Gender Studies, Epistemic Injustice and the Politics of De-Democratization in Romania · with Ionela Băluță, European Journal of Politics and Gender
  • What’s in a Name? Alternative Gender Knowledge and the Retrogressive Worlding of Radical Right Digital Media · 2023

Publications, projects and resources