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Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. IOAN MIHĂILESCU



University of Bucharest

64, Kogălniceanu Ave., 70609, Bucharest, ROMANIA

Phone : 40 - 1-1 312.04.19; 40-1-0314 89 73; 40-1-314 89 75

Fax : 40 - 1-1 313.17.60

E-mail : rector@unibuc.ro


Date of birth, graduate degrees :

· 24 March 1949

· M.Sc. in Sociology: 1971, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest


Scientific and teaching degrees and titles :

· Unesco European Center for Social Sciences, Cross Culture Studies, 1974-1979, Vienna, Austria

· University of Paris X, European Rural Community Studies, 1975-1976, Paris, France

· Ph.D. : University of Bucharest, 1980

- Doctoral Thesis: "Agricultural Structures in Europe"


Present place of employment, position :

· University of Bucharest

· Rector of the University of Bucharest

Past teaching experience (including subject, whether lecture or applied course, period taught) :

· 1996-present : Rector - University of Bucharest, Romania

· 1993-1996 : Executive Secretary - Consultative Group for Higher Education and Research, Romania

· 1991-1996 : Vice Rector - University of Bucharest, Romania

· 1992-present : Full Professor - Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania

· 1991-1992 : Associate Professor - Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania

· 1985-1991 : Lecturer - Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania

· 1971-1974; 1979-1985 : Assistant Professor - Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania

· 1990-1991 : Dean - Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bucharest, Romania

· 1974-1979 : Scientific Secretary - UNESCO European Center for Social Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Scientific publications :

· Author of 17 books and 5 textbooks

· Examples :

· "L'avvenire delle campagne europee" (co-author: Corrado Barberis), Milano, Franco Angeli Editore, 1976, 250 p.

· "L'Avenir de l'agriculture et des sociétés rurales en Europe ", Vienna, CEUCORS, 1976.

· "Rural Community Studies in Europe" (co-author: J.L. Durand-Drouhin and L.M. Szwengrub), Oxford, Pergamon Press, Vol. 1 - 1981; Vol. 2 - 1982; Vol. 3 - 1985, 1450 p.

· "Theory and Methods in Rural Community Studies" (co-author: Henri Mendras), Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1982, 450 p.

· "Internationalization in the European Agro-Food Sector" (co-author: A. Mollard & H.M. Wirsig), Paris, ISMEA, 1983, 320 p.

· "Sociology. Textbook" (co-author), Bucharest, University of Bucharest Publishing House, 1985, 560 p.

· "Le développement rural en Roumanie", Paris, UNESCO Documents, 1985, 210 p.

· "Bureaucracy and Policy in Romania", Seoul, KAPA Press, 1993.

· "Dictionary of Sociology" (co-author), Bucharest, Babel Press, 1993, 1012 p.

· "Legislative and Administrative Issues in Higher Education", Council of Europe, LPR, 1994, 175p.

· "Academic Assessment and Accreditation in Central and Eastern Europe" (co-author: Malcom Frazer), UNESCO-CEPES, 1995.

· "The System of Higher Education in Romania", Bucharest, Alternative Press, 1998.

· "The Family in European Societies", Bucharest, University of Bucharest Publishing House, 2000.

· Translations of reference books in the field

· Emile Durkheim, "Les règles de la méthode sociologique", (Regulile metodei sociologice), București, Editura Științifică, 1974.

· A. Schaff, "Geschichte und Wahrheit", (Istorie și adevăr), București, Editura Politică, 1982.

· "Microelectronics and Society. Report to the Club of Rome", (Microelectronica și societatea), București, Editura Politică, 1985.

· 50 scientific papers and booklets

· Examples of papers published :

· "The Rural Countryside of Tomorrow", (Vienna, CEUCORS, 1975).

· "Les Possibilités et les limites de la recherche comparative transnationale ", Social Sciences Information, XVI, (Paris, 1977).

· "L'Avenir de la famille en Europe", (Paris, UNESCO Documents, 1980).

· "Iluziile și speranțele ideologiilor dezvoltării", Sociologia dezvoltării, (București, Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, 1984).

· "Coeziunea familială și divorțul", Viitorul social, 6, 1987.

· "Alternativa pentru agricultura românească", Sociologia românească, 1, 1990.

· "Exigențele metodologice ale sondajelor de opinie", Sociologia românească, 2, 1990.

· "Les sciences sociales en Roumanie", Romanian Journal of Sociology, 1, 1990.

· "Social Sciences in a Changing Romania", Europe in the Making, (London, Blackwell Publishers, 1992)

· "Mental Stereotypes in Post-Totalitarian Romania", Government and Opposition, (London, 1993), 28, 3.

· Awards :

· Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, France (1998)

· Doctor honoris causa, Tiffin University, Ohio, USA (1998)

· Doctor honoris causa, University of Oradea, Romania (1998)

· Special Contributions in Sociology:

· Paradigm of a community study

· A genetic-structural model of the Romanian rural community

· Paradigm of the transcultural process

· Model of the Romanian rural family

· A socio-anthropological theory on structural violence

· Features of social establishment pathology with special reference to totalitarian societies

· A model of family functions and structure

· Epistemological-methodological model of the modernization process

· Paradigm of divorce analysis

Professional public activities, international contracts :

· Membership

· International Council of Social Sciences, 1974-1979

· Council of the Association for Mediterranean Studies, since 1983

· Executive Committee of the European Society for Rural Sociology, 1983-1987

· International Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, - Vice President, since 1991

· The European Club of Rectors, - Founding Member, 1991

· European University Forum, European Interuniversity Co-operation Programme, since 1993

· Council of the Romanian Sociological Association, - Vice President, since 1993

· Consultative Body for Higher Education and Research, Executive Secretary, 1993-1996

· National Council for the Reform of Education, since 1994

· First Vice President of the International Rural Sociology Association, since 1996

· Academe

· 1992-Present : Joint Ph. D. Advisorship

· University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

· Universities of Marseille, Paris-Sorbonne, France

· Universities of De Paul, Chicago, U.S.A.

· 1990-Present : Ph. D. Advisorship

· University of Bucharest, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology

· 1971-Present : Field Research Coordinator

· University of Bucharest, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology

· 1990-Present : Lectures ("Basic Sociology", "Social Policy", "Cross-Cultural Studies")

· University of Bucharest, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology

· 1975-1993 : Visiting Professor

· University of Vienna, Austria

· Universities of Paris X, Grenoble, France

· Universities of Witten, Bonn, Germany

· University of Torun, Poland

· University of Seoul, S. Korea

· 1977-1978 : Invited Speaker - Summer Courses

· Salzburg, Austria

· Budapest, Hungary

· Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia


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