Sergiu Mișcoiu

Sergiu Mișcoiu (born February 6, 1979 in Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Romania) is a Romanian researcher and Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania). He is also the Director of the Centre for International Cooperation and as Director of the Centre for African Studies (Cestaf).
== Education and academic career ==
After his BA in European studies (2001) and his two MAs (Comparative European Studies at UBB and Political Science at Marne-la-Vallée/Gustave Eiffel University), he graduated a first PhD programme in History (UBB) and a second PhD in Political Science (UPE, 2006). He successfully tutored 14 PhD theses at UBB and 6 at UPE, and currently supervises 12 other doctoral students. Throughout his career, he wrote four books, edited, co-edited and co-authored 18 volumes, wrote 59 chapters in collective volumes, 54 scientific articles and seven book reviews, mainly in English, French and Romanian. 
He holds one PhD in Political Science (University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée),another PhD in History (Babes-Bolyai University), and a habilitation in Political Science (University of Paris-East). Mișcoiu was also guest professor at the Universities of Nantes and Bordeaux (France), Warwick (UK), Bogota (Columbia), Marrakesh (Morocco), Yaoundé (Cameroon), Dakar (Senegal) and Abomey-Calavi (Benin, where was the co-founder of the country’s first PhD School in Political Science, in 2017). As an acknowledgement of his academic merits, he was awarded the Paris Thesis Price (2007) and the Annual Research Prize of UBB (2015, 2020), as well as the Palmes Académiques Order given by the French Government (2012). In terms of visibility, Prof. Mișcoiu is among the first 1% top researchers on Academia.edu,https://ubbcluj.academia.edu/SergiuMiscoiu while he has a Google Scholar H-index of 13 and a G-index of 22.
== Research interests ==
Mișcoiu has a wide experience in both theoretical and empirical research in the fields of party politics, electoral campaigns, the social impact of ideologies and electoral behaviour. He analyzed in depth the organisation and the appeal of populist, nationalist and extremist political parties and their interactions with the electorates and the mainstream political parties, as well as the processes of partisan and electoral mobilization by conducting both theory-driven investigation and field work (and in particular qualitative research) in countries such as Romania, Hungary, Moldova, France, Senegal, and Cameroon. The quality of these researches is proven by his publications in the field of the present application: the book he authored, the 10 books he edited and co-edited, the 10 major articles he (co-)published in journals (such as: Acta Politica, East European Politics and Societies, Contemporary Politics, Political Studies Review, Problems of Post-Communism, Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe) and by the eight chapters he (co-)authored in collective volumes edited by Routledge, Palgrave, Brill, P.U. de Rennes, Cerf, L’Harmattan, Nomos, CSP.
== Contributions to the development of the research in political sciences ==
Mișcoiu has brought a meaningful contribution to the development of the research on populist and nationalist political parties and movements approached through the lenses of discourse theory, a research angle that he also introduced as a discipline at the doctoral school in European Studies (UBB) and at the interdisciplinary doctoral school of UPE. He has been involved in the top management of several relevant research projects in this field, as follows: co-leader of Europe rebelle, financed by the National Research Agency in France (2007-2010); director of Political Myths in Post-Communist Romania, financed by the National Council for Scientific Research in Romania (CNCS) (2010-2013); member of the Research team of Populism and neo-populism in Contemporary Romania (CNCS) (2009-2012). Based on the main findings concerning the nature and the dynamics of populist and nationalist parties, he published four co-edited books (2008-2016), eight scientific articles (2009-2019), three entries in the Dictionary of Populisms (Paris, Cerf, 2019) and two monographs: the revised version of his PhD thesis (Naissance de la nation en Europe. Théories classiques et théorisations constructivistes, 2010) and his habilitation thesis' (HDR, Paris), Au pouvoir par le Peuple. Le populisme saisi par la théorie du discours (2012).
He also contributed to the understanding of the way the tensions and conflicts emerging in the transitional and post-transitional societies of Central and Eastern Europe and Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa impacted over the political parties’ coagulation, organization and electoral appeal, mainly in a comparative perspective.
Mișcoiu has been a core group member and a working-group co-leader in the COST Action Constitution making and deliberative democracy, financed by the European Commission (since 2018) and a guest researcher at the Free University of Brussels (2014), and at the Universities of Lille (France, 2015), Magdeburg (Germany, 2016) and Szeged (Hungary, 2020), where he mainly studied the complex roles of political parties and civil society’s actors in the emergence of deliberative democracy in several European countries, and the progress of new or renewed political parties as a consequence of democratic innovation processes. As a result, he co-edited a special issue of Political Studies Review (Sage, 2020), published several articles (in Problems of Post-Communism, Revue Est-Europa, Revue Générale de Droit).
== Media visibility ==
Mișcoiu is a public figure who often participates to TV, radio and social media broadcasted events, such as debates and documentaries. He is regularly invited to comment political developments for various press agencies and journals, such as Reuters, The New York Times, Radio France, Libération, France 24 and TVR.
* https://www.lejdd.fr/International/Europe/Mais-que-veulent-les-Roumains-845687
* https://www.rri.ro/fr_fr/elections_locales_en_roumanie_2020-2624708 
* https://www.rri.ro/fr_fr/rentree_politique_en_roumanie-2610469
* https://www.rri.ro/fr_fr/RadioRomaniaInternational/le_cafe_des_francophones-857/pg/5
* https://www.rri.ro/fr_fr/RadioRomaniaInternational/le_cafe_des_francophones-857/pg/7
* https://www.rri.ro/fr_fr/referendum_en_roumanie-2587841
* https://www.rri.ro/fr_fr/laffaire_benalla-2584855
* https://www.rri.ro/fr_fr/RadioRomaniaInternational/le_cafe_des_francophones-857/pg/10
* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/world/europe/romania-prosecutor-fired.html
* https://www.irishtimes.com/topics/topics-7.1213540?article=true&tag_person=Sergiu+Miscoiu
* https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2019/11/26/roumanie-le-president-sortant-rempile-la-gauche-accuse-le-coup_1765660/
* https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2019/11/26/roumanie-le-president-sortant-rempile-la-gauche-accuse-le-coup_1765660/
* https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/world/europe/romania-government-parliament.html
* https://adrianvladimircostea.wordpress.com/2017/10/31/interviu-sergiu-miscoiu-conferentiar-ubb-afd-ovp-si-ano-converg-in-discursurile-lor-radicale-anti-imigratie-cu-accente-identar-nationale-eurosceptice-sau-chiar-anti-europene/
* https://europunkt.ro/2017/10/31/interviu-sergiu-miscoiu-conferentiar-ubb-afd-ovp-si-ano-converg-in-discursurile-lor-radicale-anti-imigratie-cu-accente-identitar-nationale-eurosceptice-sau-chiar-anti-europene/
* http://euradio.fr/2019/05/21/la-roumanie-est-tres-europhile-sergiu-miscoiu/
* https://bnr.bg/post/101126810/prof-sergiu-mishkou-promana-v-upravlavashtoto-mnozinstvo-na-rumania-e-po-veroatna-otkolkoto-predsrochni-izbori
Category:Romanian people
Category:1979 births
Category:Faculty by university or college in Romania