Dr. Adela Hîncu

Affiliate Researcher

Adela Hîncu is an intellectual historian who writes on social thought, feminism, and the history of the social sciences and humanities in socialist Eastern Europe, especially Romania. She received her PhD in Comparative History from Central European University, Budapest, and has held fellowships in Tbilisi, Bucharest and Jena. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the project “Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis”, hosted at Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Beginning in September 2024, she will be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana.

Selected Publications

• Lóránd, Zsófia, Adela Hîncu, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc, and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz, eds. Texts and Contexts from the History of Feminism and Women’s Rights. East Central Europe, Second Half of the Twentieth Century. Budapest, New York: CEU Press, forthcoming.
• Hîncu, Adela and Victor Karády. Social Sciences in the “Other Europe” since 1945. Budapest: CEU Press, 2018.
• Hîncu, Adela. “Social science and Marxist humanism beyond collectivism in Socialist Romania”. In History of the Human Sciences 35, no. 2 (2022): 77-100. https://doi-org.uaccess.univie.ac.at/10.1177/09526951211069491.

 
Focus in the HERESSEE Project:

• Women’s literature as a platform for alternative epistemologies.
• Women’s global thought in post-Thaw Romania and beyond.

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Adela Hîncu also writes a blog called “Writing in Socialism”, where she discusses feminist literature during Romania’s communist time. She regularly reads different books written by women and shares her reflections on them.