Daniel Constantin Barbu - Biography#

Daniel Barbu (born in 1957) is professor of political science and political theology at the University of Bucharest.
He studied art history, history, theology and philosophy in Bucharest, Cluj and Fribourg. He has doctorates in history, philosophy and theology. He was visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Pa., the Central European University (Budapest), the Institutes of Political Studies of Bordeaux and Aix-en-Provence, and a Fulbright scholar-in-residence at Jackson State University, Miss.

He authored 13 books and edited 2 volumes; he published 52 chapters in edited volumes and 86 articles in academic journals, Romanian and international.

Trained under Communism as a researcher in byzantine and post-byzantine studies, he was instrumental in establishing after 1989 the Department of Political Science at the University of Bucharest, of which he was a dean for eight years. In 1999-2000 he founded a research institute and an academic journal (Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review) to serve this newly established discipline. His publications in the area of political studies focus on the history of political regimes and their transformation, and on the history of political ideas and tenets and their relation to faith institutions and religious beliefs or behaviours.

He was present in the Romanian public life as an engaged intellectual and assumed several official positions. A former presidential advisor (1997-1998), minister of culture in the Romanian Government (2012-2013) and member of the Romanian Senate (2012-2016), and president of the Permanent Electoral Authority of Romania (2017-2019). In this last capacity he created in 2018) a specialized journal The Romanian Journal of Electoral Studies.