Dr. Horia Dijmărescu (he/they) is Assistant Professor and Academic Advisor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Horia is also affiliated with Pitt’s Global Studies Center, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program. Horia teaches courses such as Introduction to Global Studies, Gender and Global Politics, Fascism and Its Discontents, and capstone seminars (on imperialism, power, and philosophy of science), and leads the Pitt in Romania: Identity and Global Politics study abroad program.

His dissertation traces how discursively invoked rules (related to wartime incendiary munitions use and forms of governance in response to conflagrations) constitute rhetorical resources through which actors (re)produce and negotiate the meanings of rules themselves. More recently, his work has explored the normalization of violence against sexual and gender identity minorities, and on the identity-constructing effects of transnational heritage tourism economies.

Horia earned a Ph.D. in Political Science at Northwestern University and a M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution at American University in Washington, D.C. During his time in D.C., he worked in the grants program at the United States Institute of Peace. Horia was born in Romania and grew up in Canada. He is also a proud cat dad to Strawberry and Pamplemousse.