Art in Context lecture: When Home is No Longer Yours by Andreea Maierean, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Scienc

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• Tuesday, Jan 27, 2026  12pm - 1pm

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Join us on Tuesday, January 27 at noon for Dr. Andreea Maierean’s lecture, When Home is No Longer Yours. This lecture shares the title with her essay published in the exhibition catalog. Dr. Maierean shares her author’s grandmother’s experience as a World War II refugee in Romania with a broader analysis of what it means to be forcibly displaced, showing how refuge entails not only the loss of home but also lasting fear, trauma, and a shaken sense of belonging.

Andreea Maierean joined the department in 2014 after receiving her PhD in Political Science at Boston University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Science. Dr. Maierean previously studied in Bucharest, Romania at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, in Trieste, Italy at the University of Trieste, in Budapest, Hungary at Central European University and in Vienna, Austria at the Institute for Human Sciences. Her research and teaching interests broadly include post-communist transitions to democracy, transitional justice and environmental policy. Her doctoral dissertation is a comparative study of lustration, a process that involved the disqualification of certain categories of former communist officials and secret police collaborators from public positions under the new regime. Dr. Maierean's current two research projects examine the impact of corruption on voter turnout and the relationship between shale gas policies and democratic governance.