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Femeile din Sfântu Gheorghe
Femeile din Sfântu Gheorghe: Povești de viață, tradiții și lumina care nu se stinge (Women of Sfântu Gheorghe: Life Stories, Traditions, and the Light That Does Not Fade), by Andreea Mosila and Mira Bălan, tells the stories of women from Sfântu Gheorghe, a remote village in Romania’s Danube Delta.
Drawing on personal stories and interviews collected over several years, the book preserves the voices, memories, traditions, and lived experiences of women whose lives have been deeply connected to the Danube Delta. Through their stories, readers encounter childhood and family life, marriage and motherhood, work, fishing communities, local customs, traditional food, embroidery and crafts, faith, hardship, environmental change, and the transformations that have reshaped village life across generations.
At its heart, the book is about memory, resilience, and belonging. Rather than treating the women of Sfântu Gheorghe simply as subjects of research, it allows them to tell their own stories in their own voices. Their individual experiences come together to form a collective portrait of a community and a way of life that is changing, while showing how women have helped preserve local knowledge, traditions, family histories, and cultural identity.
The book is also an effort to preserve these stories for future generations, ensuring that the experiences and voices of the women of Sfântu Gheorghe remain part of the cultural memory of the Danube Delta.
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Where rigorous research meets compelling storytelling
Published in January 2025.
Upcoming Fall 2025.
Upcoming Summer 2026.
The Wallfacer's Guide to Global Security: Lessons from the Three-Body Trilogy
Upcoming Fall 2026.
Read This
I highly recommend this thought-provoking piece published in EuropeNow:
The Challenge of Populism and Disinformation on the Pandemic Response in Romania
This article explores how disinformation, populist narratives, and institutional distrust shaped Romania’s pandemic response. A timely reminder of how public health, governance, and communication are deeply intertwined, and why this matters for future crisis resilience, especially in Central and Eastern Europe.
Peer Reviewed Articles
Mosila, Andreea. 2026. “The Reciprocity-Security Framework: A Nature-Dependent Paradigm for Human Security.” Security and Intelligence 11 (1). https://doi.org/10.18278/si.11.1.4.
Mosila, A. (2026). What the Danube Delta Taught Me About Planetary Sustainability: Oral Histories of Adaptation and Ecological Change. Space Education & Strategic Applications, 5(4). https://doi.org/10.18278/sesa.5.4.15
Mosila, Andreea. “Human Security and Exclusionary Conservation: Rethinking Conservation Governance in Europe’s Danube Delta and the Indo-Pacific.” In Climate Change, Public Health, and Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific, edited by Sebastian Kevany, 247–262. Academic Press, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-40368-2.00026-X.
Mosila, Andreea. “Political Perspectives on Climate Change Policy in New Zealand: Implications for Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific.” In Climate Change, Public Health, and Regional Security in the Indo-Pacific, edited by Sebastian Kevany, 345–356. Academic Press, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-40368-2.00016-7
Mosila, Andreea, and Mira Balan. 2025. “Women, Human Security, and Environmental Change in the Danube Delta’s Village Sfântu Gheorghe.” Security and Intelligence, September, 1–15. https://gsis.scholasticahq.com/article/144359-women-human-security-and-environmental-change-in-the-danube-delta-s-village-sfantu-gheorghe
Mosila, A. (2025). From Rivalry to Alliance: Shaping the Future of U.S.-China Space Exploration. Space Education & Strategic Applications, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.18278/sesa.5.2.6
Mosila, Andreea. “New Zealand’s Pandemic Response: A Model for Climate Crisis Management.” In The Indo-Pacific Mosaic: Comprehensive Security in the Indo-Pacific, chap. 15. 2025. https://doi.org/10.71236/EJOO1071.
Mosila, A., & Burch, J. (2024). Antisatellite Testing and a Whole New Era in Spacefaring: The Implication of China’s 2007 ASAT Test on Global Security and Strategic Intelligence. Space Education & Strategic Applications, 4(4). https://doi.org/10.18278/sesa.4.4.3
Mosila, A. I. (2023). The Political Dimension of Space Exploration. Space Education & Strategic Applications, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.18278/001c.75419
Mosila, Andreea. 2022. “Mikhail Gorbachev: A Transformational Leader.” Security and Intelligence 7 (1): 7–24. https://doi.org/10.18278/gsis.7.1.2.
🎙️ Podcast Feature
From Romania to the Stars:
My Conversation on the
Space Madness Podcast
In June, I had the pleasure of joining Jeff Nosanov as a guest on his podcast, Space Madness. In this episode, I share my journey from growing up in communist Romania to working at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and conducting Fulbright-funded research on climate security in the Danube Delta. We talked about space exploration, the importance of bridging science and governance, and the role personal passion plays in shaping a career. I reflected on my experiences across multiple NASA centers and the ongoing challenge of communicating research findings across disciplines and audiences.
New Book
“Resilient Daughters of the Danube Delta: Women, Human Security, and Environmental Change” explores how women sustain everyday security in one of Europe’s most fragile environments: Romania’s Danube Delta. Drawing on oral histories from Haholi Ukrainian women in the remote village of Sfântu Gheorghe, it reveals how care, food practices, ecological knowledge, and community ties support survival in a region shaped by environmental change, economic marginalization, and demographic decline.
Rather than focusing on state institutions or military threats, the book shows how security emerges through daily labor: tending gardens, preserving food, caring for elders, and maintaining social networks. These practices form an often-invisible infrastructure that holds communities together as fisheries decline, migration increases, and climate pressures intensify.
Combining feminist security theory with narrative oral history, the book offers an original perspective on human security in marginal environments. It will interest scholars and students of global security, gender studies, environmental change, Eastern European studies, and policymakers concerned with community resilience and sustainability.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, August 10, 2026