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Below are the lists of the 2011-2012 fellows - giving names, affiliations, and project titles - under all NEC administered programs.

 

2011-2012 NEC Fellows

  • Daniel BRETT (UK)                                                  Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Ph.D. Candidate, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK
    Associate Lecturer, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
    Politics on the Periphery: Transition, Social Change and Rural Politics in Romania, Poland, Sweden and Denmark 1900-1950

  • Andrey DEVYATKOV (Russia)                                 March – July 2012
    Ph.D. Candidate, Junior Teacher, Institute of Modern History and Political Sciences, Tyumen State University, Russia
    Russian-Romanian relations in the context of the Transnistrian issue

  • Florian GASSNER (Germany)                                   March – July 2012
    Ph.D. Candidate, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
    Giacomo Casanova and the Rise of Civil Society in Europe

  • Ilya KHARIN (USA)                                                   Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University, USA
    Briging Japan and Europe: Orthodox Church as medium of international relations in the era of the World Wars

  • Riccardo NANINI (Italy)                                           Oct. 2011 – Febr. 2012
    Project Coordinator, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
    Archétypes and Idealtypen: Comparing two crucial hermeneutical units in Mircea Eliade’s and Gerardus van der Leeuw’s methodology within the study of religions

  • Bukola Adeyemi OYENIYI (Nigeria)                        Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Ph.D. Candidate, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
    Lecturer, Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji-Arakeji, Nigeria
    Dress and Identity in Yorubaland

  • Katalin PRAJDA (Hungary)                                       Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Ph.D. Candidate, Researcher, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
    Florentines in Transylvania during the first decades of the 15th century

  • Amy SAMUELSON (USA)                                           Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Ph.D.Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
    Generational Differences in Advocacy Practices: Youth and Environmentalism in Post-Socialist Romania

Eurias Fellow

  • Hylarie KOCHIRAS (USA)                                          Oct. 2011-July 2012
    Postdoctoral Fellow, EURIAS Fellowship Programme
    Newton and the Transition from Natural Philosophy to Science

 Dilema Fellows

  • Ștefania COSTACHE                                                    Oct. 2011-July 2012
    Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois, USA
    Superintendents into Politicians: Ottoman governance and Imperial Legacies in the Making in Moldavia and Walachia (1774-1817)

  • Dorin DOBRINCU                                                        Oct. 2011-July 2012
    Director, Romanian National Archives
    Researcher, „A. D. Xenopol” Institute of History, Romanian Academy,  Iaşi
    Science as a Political Tool. Atheism, Popularization and Propaganda in „People’s” Romania (1948-1965)

  • Sorin GOG                                                                    Oct. 2011-July 2012   
    Assistant Professor, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
    After Atheism: Post-communist Romania and the Issue of Emergent European Secularization


 

2011-2012 NEC-POSDRU Fellows

  • Raluca-Ioana ALEXANDRESCU                                   1 Mar. 2011 –  29 Feb. 2012
    Asistent universitar, Facultatea de Ştiinţe Politice, Universitatea Bucureşti
    Modernitatea contrariată: gândirea politică românească de la Belle Epoque până la primul război mondial (1895-1914), între imposibila stângă și capcana tradiționalismului /  La modernité contrariée: la pensée politique roumaine de la Belle Epoque jusqu'à la Grande Guerre (1895-1914) entre la gauche impossible et le piège du traditionalisme

  • Corina IOSIF SÎRBU                                                   1 Oct. 2011 – 30 Sept. 2012
    Cercetător, Institutul “Arhiva de Folclor a Academiei”, Academia Română, Filiala Cluj-Napoca
    Producerea “folclorului” şi consumul lui. Un studiu al originilor şi uzajelor folclorului ca domeniu
    al culturii media în România postcomunistă / Producing and Consuming “Folklore”:
     A Study of the Origins and Usage of Folklore as a Field of Media Culture in Post-communist Romania.

  • Bogdan Ivaşcu                                                           1 Mar. 2011 – 29 Feb. 2012
    Muzeograf, Secţia de istorie contemporană, Complexul Muzeal Arad
    De la sensul istoriei la sens în istorie. Eric Voegelin şi o filosofie a istoriei  non-ideologică /
    From meaning of history to meaning in history. Eric Voegelin’s non-ideological philosophy
     of history

  • Camil PÂRVU                                                             1 Mar. 2011 –  29 Feb. 2012
    Lector universitar, Universitatea din București, Facultatea de Științe Politice
    Transformările contemporane ale teoriei politice radicale / The Transformations of Contemporary Radical Political Theory

  • Florinela POPA                                                         1 Mar. 2011 –  29 Feb. 2012
    Asistent universitar, Universitatea Naţională de Muzică din Bucureşti
    Muzica şi politica. Studiu de caz: Serghei Prokofiev / Music and Politics. Case study:
    Sergei Prokofiev

  • Victor RIZESCU                                                        1 Oct. 2011 – 30 Sept. 2012
    Lector universitar, Facultatea de Ştiinţe Politice, Universitatea din Bucureşti
    Varietăţi şi interferenţe ideologice în context istoric românesc: liberalism, socialism, agrarianism, corporatism şi organicism social / Ideological Varieties and Interferences in the
    Romanian Context: Liberalism, Socialism, Agrarianism, Corporatism and Social Organicism

  • Arthur Viorel Tuluş                                                 1 Oct. 2011 – 30 Sept. 2012
    Lector universitar, Facultatea de Istorie, Filosofie şi Teologie, Universitatea “Dunărea de Jos” din Galaţi
    Sionismul şi comunismul în rândul comunităţii evreieşti de la Dunărea de Jos. Percepţii
    contemporane, mituri istoriografice şi realităţi istorice / Zionism and Communism among
    the Jewish community from the Lower Danube. Contemporary perceptions,
    historiographical myths and historical realities


 

2011-2012 ODOBLEJA Fellows

  • Elena BEDREAG                                                        Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of History, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași
    Family Relationships, Attitudes and Collective Sensibilities in Testamentary Discourse in 17th and 18th Century Moldavia

  • Ștefan BOSOMITU                                                    Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Researcher, Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes
    and for the Memory of the Romanian Exile, Bucharest
    In the Age of “Misery”: The Romanian Sociology during the Communist Regime (1948-1977)

  • Elena FIREA                                                               Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of History, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
    Shaping a Patron Saint of Medieval Moldavia. The Cult of St. John the New from Suceava (15th to 17th Centuries)

  • Andrei Ioan LAZĂR                                                     Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Letters, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
    Autobiographie, photographie et cinéma : approche interdisciplinaire

  • Florin LEONTE                                                             Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Ph.D. Candidate, Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
    Rhetoric in Purple: the Renewal of Imperial Ideology in the Texts of Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos (1391-1425)

  • Sebastian MATEIESCU                                                Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
    The Ontology of Miracles

  • Cornel-Aurelian MICU                                                Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Assistant Professor, Faculty of History, Danubius University, Galaţi
    Politics of „sistematizare rurală” in Communist Romania: 1970-1989

  • Cosmin UNGUREANU                                                  Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Education Curator, National Museum of Art of Romania
    Associate teaching assistant, „Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and
    Urban Planning, Bucharest
    The Idea of a French Order. Ribart de Chamoust and the Questioning of Architectural Origins
 

2011-2012 GE-NEC III Fellows

  • Mădălina BRAŞOVEANU                                     October 2011 – July 2012
    Associated assistant, Partium Christian University Oradea
    The rereading of a small history: Atelier 35 Oradea


  • Adriana COPACIU                                              October 2011 – February 2012
    PhD candidate and Research Assistant, Université de Fribourg,
    Faculté des Lettres, Département de Langues et Littérature, Domaine Français
    L’avant-garde roumaine des années 1940-1960 : entre l’innovation artistique et l’esthétique de la banalité

  • Celia GHYKA                                                       October 2011 – July 2012
    PhD, Assistant Professor, „Ion Mincu” University of
    Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest
    Romanian Artists after 1989. Memory, Public Space and Urban Experience

  • Bogdan-Teodor IACOB                                        March 2011 – February 2012
    Senior Lecturer, University of Art and Design Cluj – Napoca
    Art Criticism in Communist Romania (1965 – 1989): practices, discourses, status

  • Emil-Cristian NAE                                                February - July 2012
    Lecturer, Faculty of Fine Arts, Decorative Arts and Design,
    “George Enescu” University of Arts, Iasi
    From, Transition’ to‚ Normalisation’. Tendencies of Institutional Critique in Romanian Art of the Late Nineties

  • Olivia NIŢIŞ                                                          October 2011 – July 2012
    PhD candidate, West University, Timişoara,
    Research Assistant, „G.Oprescu” Institute of Art History of the
    Romanian Academy, Bucharest
    Body Politics and the Mechanisms of Power in Romanian Art in the 1980s and 1990s

  • Adriana OPREA                                                      October 2011 – July 2012
    PhD candidate, National University of Arts, Bucharest,
    Curator, Museum of Contemporary art, Bucharest
    Crisis and Art Criticism in the ’90s. The discourse and the status of the art critic after the fall of the communist regime in Romania

  • Veda-Alexandra POPOVICI                                   October 2011 – July 2012
    PhD candidate, National University of Arts, Bucharest
    Authenticity and Imitation. Building ethno-nationalism in Romanian art in the 1965-1989 period

  • Irina Teodora TULBURE                                          October 2011 – July 2012
    PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant, „Ion Mincu” University of
    Architecture and Urban Planning, Bucharest
    Constructing the Socialist Landscape: Myths, Propaganda and Architecture in Stalinist Romania

  • Oana TĂNASE                                                          March 2011 – February 2012
    Curator, National Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest
    Adequacy and Authenticity in Art Criticism. Case Study: Arta magazine


2011-2012 BLACK SEA LINK Fellows

  • Diana DUMITRU (Rep. Moldova)                            Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Associate Professor, World History Department, Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova
    The Holocaust in Bessarabia and Transnistria: Bringing the Local Population into the Story


  • Ibrahim IBRAHIMOV (Azerbaijan)                         Oct. 2011 – Feb. 2012
    PhD Candidate, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow
    Researcher, Permanent Secretariat of Black Sea Economic Cooperation, Istanbul
    Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC): Economic Cooperation as a Promoter of Peace and Stability in the Black Sea Region


  • Natalya LAZAR (Ukraine)                                        March – July 2012
    PhD Candidate, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark Univerity, USA
    The Fate of Czernowitz Jews: Genocide and Memory in Bukovina


  • Sergiu MUSTEAŢĂ (Rep. Moldova)                           Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Associate Professor, Ion Creanga State Pedagogical University, Chisinau, Rep. Moldova
    We and our Neighbours: What we Know about each Others. History Teaching and Textbooks in the Republic of Moldova, Romania and Ukraine


  • Stanislav SECRIERU (Rep. Moldova)                        Oct. 2011 – July 2012
    Associate Researcher, Center for East European and Asian Studies, Bucharest
    European and Russian Policies in the “Common Neighborhood”: The Case of Moldova


  • Lia TSULADZE (Georgia)                                           Oct. 2011 – Feb. 2012
    Associate Professor, Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia
    Glocalization and the Assertion of “National” among Contemporary Youth in Post-Soviet Georgia vs. European Post-Communist Societies (Romania)


  • Tamara ZLOBINA (Ukraine)                                      Oct. 2011 – Feb. 2012
    Politics of everyday life. Critical art in Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova



2011-2012 RESEARCHERS

SCOPES Project:
“Business Elites in Romania: Their Social and Educational Determinants and their Impact on Economic Performances”
Timeframe: December 1, 2009 – November 30, 2012 (3 Years)

  • Liviu VOINEA (Romania)
    PhD, Senior Lecturer, National School for Political and Administrative Studies;
    Executive Director, Group of Applied Economics, Bucharest

  • Laura SIMIONESCU (Romania)
    PhD, Associate Researcher, Group of Applied Economics, Bucharest

  • Iulia RACZ (Romania)
    PhD Candidate, Group of Applied Economics, Bucharest  

MOM Project:
MOM - The Medicine of the Mind and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England: A new Interpretation of Francis Bacon” (A project under the aegis of the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants Scheme) – In cooperation with the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, London
Timeframe: December 1, 2009 – November 30, 2014 (5 Years)

  • Sorana CORNEANU (Romania)
    PhD, Lecturer in English, University of Bucharest

  • Dana JALOBEANU (Romania)
    PhD, Lecturer, Department of Theoretical Philosophy, University of Bucharest

UEFISCSU – CNCSIS (PD – Project):
Timeframe: August 1, 2010 – July 31, 2012 (2 Years)

  • Áron Zsolt TELEGDI-CSETRI (Romania)
    PhD, Researcher, New Europe College

  • Dan Dorin LAZEA (Romania)
    PhD, Lecturer, West University of Timișoara