Oana Rizescu, cercetător științific II
Born 1972. Researcher at the “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History of the Romanian Academy, where she has worked since 1996. BA (1996), and MA (1997) in History at the University of Bucharest, followed by PhD in History at Université Laval, Québec, Canada (2004), and stages of specialization at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales/ Centre d’études des normes juridiques, Paris (2004-2005; in collaboration with Istituto di Studi Umanistici of Florence, the Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna of Pisa and the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona), Maison de Sciences de l'Homme, Paris (2008) and Max Planck Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt/Main (2009-2011). BA in Psychology at the University of Bucharest (2017). Specialist in the critical editing of XVIIth century Wallachian documents and in the social and legal history of Romania. Specific fields of research: state-society relations in Romanian history; the evolution of institutions in Romanian history; the comparative history of European legal systems; the development of the devices of social care in Romania; the history of Romanian psychology and psychiatry; various aspects of the history of judicial psychology, psycho-linguistics, delinquency and repression, charitable institutions and special education. Her book Avant “l’Etat-juge”. Pratique juridique et construction politique en Valachie au XVIIe siècle, București, Notarom, 2008 was granted the “Nicolae Iorga” prize of the Romanian Academy. Publications in Romania, France, Morocco, and Canada and participations in academic conferences organized in Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Tunisia and Canada. Coordinator of the Group of Research for the History of Law based at the “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History of the Romanian Academy.