Education

 

Ongoing, PhD Researcher in Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy.

2008– 2009, MRes in Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy.

2007-2008, MA in European Union Studies, Leiden University, (Praesidium Libertatis Scholarship), Leiden, The Netherlands.

2006-2007, MA in Nationalism Studies, Central European University (CEU Fellowship), Budapest, Hungary.

2005 (Feb– June), Socrates Exchange  Program, (Socrates Mobility Grant), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

2000-2004, BA in Political Science, Faculty of Philosophy, Political Science Department, A.I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania.

 

Professional experience & training

 

2008– ongoing, [part time] Research Collaborator EUDO Citizenship Observatory, European University

Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy.

2008, 10-15 June, Training Seminar on (Forced) Migrations, Minorities and Human Rights,

Network Migration in Europe, Berlin, Germany.

2006, July 2-15, International Summer School “Human Rights in Cultural Contexts: Cultural Pluralism

against Racism and Xenophobia ‘Communities vs. Individuals’”, Utrecht Network, Ripatransone, Italy.

2006 (Jan– Aug.),  Assistant Counsellor, Directorate for Communitarian Assistance, City Council, I

asi, Romania,

 

Conference papers

 

2010, January 21-22, ‘How ethnicist are citizenship rules in European Union countries’, EUDO Conference, Comparing Citizenship Policies in Europe, The University of Edinburgh, School of Law, Edinburgh, UK.

2009, June 09, , ‘Ethnic preferentialism in access to citizenship. Four cases from postcommunist

Central and Eastern Europe’, Research Workshop Interrogating the Intersection between Race,

Ethnicity, and Nationhood, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy.

2008, June 20-22, ‘EU Approaches to Migration and Development’, CEU Graduate Conference

in Social Sciences,  Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

2008, April 4- 6, ‘EU Approaches on Migration and Development: Competing or Complementary?’,

Graduate Workshop Migration in the 21st Century:  Challenge to Nation-States, EUROPAEUM,

Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

 

Publications

 

Articles in academic journals

 

2007, ‘Citizenship Regulations in Eastern Europe. Acquisition of Citizenship at Birth and through

Regular Naturalization in Sixteen Postcommunist Countries’, CEU Political Science Journal 2 (4):450-72.

Link (pdf).

2006, ‘Natiuni si nationalisme. O analiza a nationalismului din perspectiva ideilor despre natiune’

[Nations and Nationalisms. An Analysis of Nationalism through the Ideas about the Nation],

Sfera Politicii (120-1-2):109-14. Link (html).

2005, "Postmodernitatea ca metafora a eliberarii." [Postmodernity as a Metaphor of Liberation]

Sfera Politicii (119):56-8. Link (html).

2005, ‘Liberalism si diversitate: o provocare postmoderna?’ In Cercetări multidimensionale în științele

umaniste, ed. C. Dumbrava, Costandache. C., Sandu, A. Iași: Lumen.

 

Chapters in edited books

 

2009 ‘Procedura codeciziei: mod de functionare si implicatii la nivelul echilibrului institutional European’,  [Codecision: Functioning and Implications for the European Institutional Equilibrium] In (eds.) F. Pop,

Gherghina, S., and Jiglau, G., Uniunea Europeana: Drept, Institutii si politici comunitare. Manual Introductiv,

Cluj Napoca: Argonaut.

2006, ‘Multicultural Education. A comparative Analysis between France and Britain’ In (eds.) Buhai, S.,

Vieru, S., Mihai, A., Maierean, R., Ratiu, R., and Dumbrava, C. New Approaches in Humanistic Sciences,

Iasi: Lumen.

2005, ‘Liberalism si diversitate: o provocare postmoderna?’ [Liberalism and Diversity. A Postmodern Challenge?] In (eds.) Dumbrava, C., Costandache. C., and Sandu, A., Cercetari multidimensionale în

stiintele umaniste, Iasi: Lumen.

 

On line papers

 

2009, 'Five comments on citizenship policies in CEE countries', EUDO Citizenship Forum,

RSCAS, European University Institute, Florence. Link (html).

2008, ‘Labour Immigration Policy in Europe? What Kind?’, Netzwerk Migration in Europe, Berlin.

Link (pdf).

 

Languages

 

Romanian (mother tongue)

English (very well)

French (working level)

Italian (working level)

Bulgarian (basic)

 

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