Mihaela Gligor studied Philosophy at Universitatea Babes-Bolyai, Romania, where she also received her PhD in Philosophy in 2006, with a thesis on Mircea Eliade and romanian right extreme. In 2016, she defended (at the same university) her habilitation in History, working on the subject An Alternative Intellectual History of Mircea Eliade’s Myth. In 2009, she was a fellow at department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, with an Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) postdoctoral scholarship. A specialist in Mircea Eliade’s life and work, and also interested in philosophy and history of religions, indian studies, and interwar intellectual history, Mihaela Gligor is now a scientific researcher in the field of philosophy of culture at the Academia Romana Filiala Filialei Cluj-Napoca, at George Baritiu Institute of History, department of Humanities; director and founder of Cluj Center for Indian Studies at Universitatea Babes-Bolyai; associate professor and PhD coordinator within the Doctoral school of International relations and security studies at Universitatea Babes-Bolyai; and a member of the Romanian Writers Union. She is the recipient of Venus International Research Awards (VIRA) 2017: outstanding scientist in humanities 2017, offered by Venus International Research Foundation, Chennai, India. Mihaela Gligor is also the founder and editor in chief of «International Journal on Humanistic Ideology» and «Romanian Journal of Indian Studies» (2017), both indexed and abstracted in scientific international data bases and published at Cluj University Press. Her latest book is Orient şi Occident. Topografii ale simbolului la Mircea Eliade, Cluj University Press, 2016, ISBN: 978-973-595-951-7 [E-book, ISBN 978-606-37-0007-1] http://www.editura.ubbcluj.ro/bd/ebooks/pdf/1958.
