T Olteanu

Tina Olteanu

  • Visiting Scholar, The Europe Center

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Biography

Tina Olteanu is a post-doc at the Department for Political Science at the University of Vienna. She completed her PhD on “Democracy and Corruption: Austria and Romania compared” in 2011 and was awarded with the best dissertation (2011) by the Austrian Political Science Association (ÖGPW). She is currently working on a project comparing political participation in East and West in times of multiple crises in Europe.

Olteanu studied East European Studies in Berlin and Bucharest and was a researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. She has taught at the FernUniversität in Hagen, at the University of Bucharest, Romania, at the Alpen-Adria University in Klagenfurt and at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Olteanu recently published "Religious Pluralism in Europe − Orthodox Churches and their Members in the Process of European Integration" (IPW Working Papers No. 2/2013 together with Dorothée de Nève.) Her other publications include Korrupte Demokratie?: Diskurs und Wahrnehmung in Österreich und Rumänien im Vergleich (Wiesbaden, 2012) and an edited volume on Politische Partizipation jenseits der Konventionen (Leverkusen 2013, together with Dorothée de Nève).