LAURENŢIU ŞTEFAN - Curriculum vitae - PERSONAL DATA Birth and citizenship: Romanian citizen, born October 30, 1967, Ploieşti, Romania Family status: married, two children Home address: str. Răscoala 1907 no. 8, bl. 13, apt. 15, Bucharest – 2, Romania, telephone: 4031-8016934, mobile: 40722467135, e-mail: [email protected]Office address: US Embassy in Bucharest, Political Section, 7-9, Tudor Arghezi street, Bucharest, Romania, tel.: 4021-2003393, fax: 4021-2003478, email: [email protected]EMPLOYMENT HISTORY • Since September 2004 – Present: Political Specialist, Political Section, The US Embassy in Bucharest Awarded “Foreign Service National of the Year 2005” • February 1997 – July 2007: Associate Lecturer and then Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bucharest, teaching courses in Romanian, English and French languages. Full responsibility (course and seminar) for the following courses: - Romanian Political Elites (in Romanian, graduate course), academic years: 2005-6, 2006-7 - Political Elites (in English, graduate and undergraduate course), academic year 2004-5, 2010-11 - Political Parties (in French and Romanian), academic years 2003-4, 2005-6 - Introduction to Methodology (in Romanian, French and English), academic years: 2003-4, 2004-5 - Romanian Political Thought (In English and French), academic year 2002-3 - Post-communist Politics in Romania (in French and Romanian), academic years: 1998-9, 1999-2000, 2000-1, 2001-2, 2002-3 1
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LAURENŢIU ŞTEFAN
- Curriculum vitae -
PERSONAL DATA
Birth and citizenship: Romanian citizen, born October 30, 1967, Ploieşti, Romania
Family status: married, two children Home address: str. Răscoala 1907 no. 8, bl. 13, apt. 15, Bucharest – 2,
Office address: US Embassy in Bucharest, Political Section, 7-9, Tudor Arghezi street, Bucharest, Romania, tel.: 4021-2003393, fax: 4021-2003478, email: [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
• Since September 2004 – Present: Political Specialist, Political Section, The
US Embassy in Bucharest
Awarded “Foreign Service National of the Year 2005”
• February 1997 – July 2007: Associate Lecturer and then Assistant
Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bucharest, teaching courses in
Romanian, English and French languages.
Full responsibility (course and seminar) for the following courses:- Romanian Political Elites (in Romanian, graduate course), academic years: 2005-6, 2006-7- Political Elites (in English, graduate and undergraduate course), academic year 2004-5, 2010-11- Political Parties (in French and Romanian), academic years 2003-4, 2005-6- Introduction to Methodology (in Romanian, French and English), academic years: 2003-4, 2004-5- Romanian Political Thought (In English and French), academic year 2002-3- Post-communist Politics in Romania (in French and Romanian), academic years: 1998-9, 1999-2000, 2000-1, 2001-2, 2002-3- Communism and Post-communism in Eastern Europe (in English), academic years: 2000-1, 2001-2.- Research Methods in Political Science (in English), academic year: 2000-1,- Introduction to Political Science (in English), academic year: 1999-2000,- Political Doctrines (in French), academic years: 1996-7, 1998-9,
Tutor and supervisor of graduation theses (since the academic year 1999-2000) on political elites, comparative communism in Eastern
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Europe, politics in post-communist Romania (civil society, political parties, political elites).
• November 1995 - February 1999: Research Assistant and then
Researcher at the Romanian Academy Institute for Southeast European Studies,
Bucharest.
Research Assistant for the Directory of the Institute, Professor Dr. Alexandru Duţu.
Secretary of the Editorial Board of Revue des Etudes Sud-Est Européennes, the scientific quarterly published by the Institute for Southeast European Studies.
Member of the research group on “Elites in Post-communist Eastern Europe”.
• September 2000 - January 2001: Researcher, Pro Institute, Bucharest.
Main responsibility: designing research projects on Romanian present-day politics.
In charge of the political dimension of the research project: “Determinants of electoral behavior in 2000 general elections”.
• September 1998 - January 2000: Political Analyst, the Mediafax News
Agency, Bucharest.
Senior Political Analyst at Mediafax Database, overseeing data collection and producing political analyses on Romanian and international politics.
Political Analyst at Mediafax News Agency, author of features and in-house counseling on Romanian politics for media events.
• September 1992 - February 1995: Teacher (Computer Science) at the
"Jean Monnet" secondary school, Bucharest.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• Chair of the Romanian Society of Political Science (SRSP), 2000-2005
Initiator, in January 2000, of the only active professional association in the field of political science in Romania. SRSP membership increased from the initial 34 to more than 100 in December 2005. Members are PhDs or PhD candidates in political and other social sciences, teaching and researching in Romania or abroad.
Co-organizer of the SRSP main event: The Annual Conferences (Bucharest, September 2000, Timişoara, October 2001, Cluj, October 2002, Bucharest, September 2003, Bucharest, July 2004, Oradea, November 2005), organizer of workshops and seminars with national and international participation.
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• Member of the Board of Directors and Executive Director (2001-2004) of the Invisible College Bucharest. Centre for Advanced Studies and Research in Political Science - an alternative research-oriented teaching structure providing tutorship, a close relationship between teacher and student, resources and a friendly environment for political research – a SRSP project funded and supported by The American Embassy in Romania.
Instructor within the Invisible College of a course on “Theories of Political Elite Recruitment”.
Coordinator of the research project “Political Elite Recruitment and Party Performance in Post-communist Romania” (2001-2003)
Co-coordinator (with Razvan Grecu, Aurelian Muntean and Andrei Gheorhita) of the reseach project “Parties, organizations and individual actors: behavior, influence and political recruitment” (2003-2004)
Co-initiator and coordinator of the SRSP Summer School on “Parties, Elections and Democracy”, to be held in Tescani, Bacau, 23 June – 6 July, organized with financial support from The Open Society Institute – Higher Education Support Program, The American and British Embassies in Bucharest.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the quarterly POLIS, Romanian Journal for
Political Sciences (1996-2000), of the monthly Sfera politicii (since July 1998)
As a member of the Editorial Board of POLIS, I have edited special issues on political culture and citizenship (Vol. 3, No. 3-4), post-communist transitions (Vol. 4, No. 2), the Romanian-born British political scientist Ghiţă Ionescu (Vol. 6, No. 3).
• Executive Editor (since 2002) and Member of the Editorial Board (since
January 2001) of the bi-annual Romanian Journal of Society and Politics.
As a member of the Editorial Board of Romanian Journal of Society and Politics, I am a regular reviewer of the articles submitted to the Journal on the subject of Romanian politics.
• Founding Member and Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute
for Political and Economic Research (IPER), Bucharest (since February 1999).
I have initiated the affiliation of IPER at the European Thematic Network for Political Science (TN), later European Political Science Network
As representative of IPER, I have attended the second Conference of the TN held in Leiden, Netherlands, July 1999.
• Sept. 1999: Junior Lecturer, Summer University in Plovdiv, “Imagining
• Feb. 1999 - June 1999: Associate Lecturer in Politics at the Center for
International Relations and Diplomatic Training, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Bucharest.
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EDUCATION
• November 2003: PhD in Political Science, National School of Political and
Administrative Studies, Bucharest
Thesis title: “Patterns of Political Elite Recruitment in Post-communist Romania”, supervisor Professor Dr. Adrian Miroiu, University of Bucharest, external supervisor Professor Dr. Vladimir Tismăneanu, University of Maryland at College Park, U.S.A.
• October 1997 - July 1998: MPhil in Sociology and Politics of Modern
Societies, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, Great
Britain.
Dissertation title: "From One Stalinism to Another: A Study in Romanian Political Elites: 1952-1974", supervisor Dr. David Lane, Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge.
• 1992-1996: BA in Political Sciences, specialization “Political Sciences in
French Language”, Faculty of Political and Administrative Sciences, University of
Bucharest.
All undergraduate courses have been conducted in French. Dissertation title: “Le paradigme de la modernisation: le cas de la
Roumanie au XIXe siècle”, supervisor Professor Dr. Alexandru Duţu. I spent one semester (February-June 1995) as an exchange student at the
Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, University of Rennes I, Rennes, France (with an A.U.P.E.L.F.-U.R.E.F. C.I.M.E. scholarship).
• 1987-1992: MSc in Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics, University of
Bucharest.
For one semester after my graduation, I have been a teaching assistant at the Department of Computer Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics.
WINTER AND SUMMER SCHOOLS, INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIA
• October 2003: “Old Elites in Young Democracies”, International Symposium
of the Ettersberg Foundation, Weimar, Germany.
• November 2002: “The New Security Environment in Europe”, the seventh
European International Session, Institut des Hautes Etudes de Defense Nationale,
Paris, France.
• September 2002: “Civil Society in the Making”, the fourth meeting of the
Social Science Network, Warsaw, Poland.
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• February 2002: Collegium Budapest Winter School: “Is European
Citizenship Possible?”, Budapest, Hungary.
• June 2001: International Workshop on “Current Debates in Political
Philosophy”, Sinaia, Romania, organized by the Cultural Services of the American
Embassy in Romania, with the support of the Romanian Society of Political Science
(SRSP).
• August 2000: Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies,
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo, Course: “Parliamentary Democracy”,
Course Lecturer: Professor Kaare Strøm.
• September 1993: Summer School in European Law and Political Science,
University of Rennes II, Rennes, France.
FELLOWSHIPS
• August 2002 – May 2004: Civic Education Project Local Faculty Fellow,
Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, Romania.
• October 1999 – July 2002: RELINK Fellow of the New Europe College.
Institute for Advanced Studies, Bucharest.
Convener of the roundtable: “The State of Romanian Political Science at the End of the Millennium”, January 2000.
Convener of the roundtable: “Team Projects in Social Sciences”, January 2001.
Convener of the seminars for advanced students: “Research in Political Science” and “Theories and Research on Political Elites”
Participant at roundtables, workshops, seminars, conferences.
• January – June 2000: Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institut für die
Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna.
• July - August 1997: Fellow of the Summer Institute on the U.S. Political
System, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, U. S. A.
RESEARCH STAYS AND VISITING SCHOLARSHIPS
• November 2002, research stay at the Institut des Hautes Etudes de
Defense Nationale, Paris, France.
• April – May 2002, May - June 2001: Junior Visiting Scholar at the
University of Maryland at College Park, United States of America, as an external
graduate student of Professor Vladimir Tismăneanu.
• July – September 2001: Junior Visiting Scholar at the University of
Cambridge, Great Britain, for work on my PhD dissertation with Dr. David Lane.
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PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Political Careers of Romanian MPs: Paths to and out of Parliament”, paper
prepared for the international conference “Twenty Years After. Parliamentary
Democracy and Parliamentary Representation in Post-Communist Europe”, Altes
Schloss Dornburg, May 7-8, 2010
“Surveys of Romanian MPs”, contribution to the workshop “Interviewing
Members of the Parliament”, GESIS, Leibniz-Institut fuer Sozialwiessenschaft, Berlin,
September 12-13, 2009
“Research on Elite Dynamics in Post-Communist Romania”, paper prepared
for the international conference „Landmark 1989. Glimpses on East-Central and
Eastern European societies twenty years after the system change”, Berlin, April 3,
2009
“Pathways to cabinet: selecting ministers in post-communist Romania”,
International Conference „Cabinet Recruitment and Parliamentary Careers”, Altes
Schloss Dornburg, November 7-8, 2008
“Romania’s First Elections to the European Parliament: Delayed, Disregarded,
Perverted,” public lecture at the University of Jena, Germany, December 5, 2007
“Accountability in Bucharest: Attempts at Legal Regulation of Romanian
Elites”, International Conference “Post-communist social and political conflicts:
citizenship and consolidation in new democracies of South East Europe,” New
Europe College, Bucharest, June 1-3, 2007
“Political Careers between Local and National Offices: the Example of
Romania”, International Conference “The EU’s South-Eastern Enlargement: Romania
and Bulgaria in Comparative Perspective,” University of Salford, Manchester, 26-28
January 2007
“Professionalization of Parliamentary Life in Romania: MPs’ Perceptions”,
International Conference, “Parliamentary Democracy and Representative Elites in
Central and Eastern Europe: The MPs’ views,” Dornburg, Germany, 10-11
November, 2006
“Romanian Political Elites after 1989,” International Conference “Mobility of
Elites in XXth century’s Romania,” Institute of Political Research, University of
Bucharest, 12-13 May 2006
“Professionalization of Representative Elites in the New Europe. Theoretical
Considerations and Some Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe” (with Michael
Edinger), Third Annual ECPR Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 8-10 September 2005
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“Political Transformation in Romania: From the ‘Stolen Revolution’ to EU
Membership” and “Political Elites in a Poorly Consolidated Democracy: The Case of
Romania”, lectures at the Jena University, Germany, 11-12 November 2004
• “Career Patterns and Career Preferences of Romanian MPs”, at the Vth
Annual Conference of the Romanian Society of Political Science, 2-3 July 2004
Awarded “The King-Groza Prize for the best paper presented at the SRSP
Conference”.
• “Romanian Politics after 1989”, a series of three lectures at the Invisible
College Chisinau, Moldova, 6-7 May 2004
• “Women and Minorities in Romanian Politics”, at the the international
conference: „Good practices in promoting Romani and minority women in the
political and democratic processes: focus on experience in Romania”, Bucharest, 15-
18 April 2004
• “Political Careers in post-communist Romania”, at the Second International
Symposium “Ideologies, values and political behavior in East and Central Europe”,
Timisoara, November 2003
• “Career Patterns and Career Preferences of Romanian MPs”, at the
International Workshop “Central European Parliaments: First Decade of Democratic
Experience and Future Prospects”, Prague, 6-8 November 2003
• “Parliamentary Representatives in Post-communist Romania” (with Razvan
Grecu), at the third EURELITE Regional Conference “Members of Parliament in Post-
communist Europe”, Bucharest, 3-9 September 2003
• “Recruitment of MPs in Post-communist Romania”, at the International Jena
Conference “Political Elites in Post-communist Settings”, Jena University, Germany, 6
- 7 December 2002 (second EURELITE Regional Conference)
• “A Review of Research on Romanian Political Elites”, at the EURELITE
Regional Conference “The Making and Consolidation of Representative Elites after
Authoritarian or Totalitarian Regimes: Central and Eastern Europe”, Budapest,
Hungary, 30 May – 2 June 2002.
• “Against Europe: Euro-skeptic Parties in Romania”, University of Sussex,
Brighton, Great Britain, in the framework of the Opposing Europe Network
workshops, a network of European scholars, 8-9 December 2001.
• “Political elite recruitment and stability of party organization in post-
communist Romania”, paper presented at the ECPR First General Conference, panel
“Party Development and Organizational Change”, Canterbury, England, 6-8
September 2001.
• “Romania after Elections”, Center for Russian and East-European Studies,
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University of Pittsburgh, United States of America, 4 June 2001.
• “Romania – a litmus case for European Union Enlargement”, paper
presented at the conference “The Vision and Frontiers of Europe”, organized by the
Institute for European Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 22-23
April 2001.
• “Romanian Political Science at the End of Millennium: Ready for Take-Off?”,
paper presented at the Seventh Conference of the International Society for the
Study of European Ideas, panel "Change and Continuity in Eastern European Social
Science Education", Bergen, Norway, 17 August 2000.
• “Reconsidering Conflicts in Post-communist Eastern Europe“, paper
presented at the International Workshop “Perceptions of ‘Modernities‘: Emergence
of Political Modernity, Social Transformation and Ideologies of Modernism in Central
and Southeast Europe in the XIX-XXth Centuries“, CEU Budapest, Hungary, May
2000.
• “Romanian Liberalism”, paper presented (with Mihaela Miroiu) at the
Seminar “European Liberalism: Old and New”, organized by the Institut für die
Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, and the Erasmus Chair, Warsaw University,
Warsaw, Poland, May 1999.
REFERENCES
Professor Vladimir Tismăneanu, University of Maryland at College Park, U.S.A.,
Professor Heinrich Best, Friedrich Schiller Universitaet Jena, Germany
Professor Adrian Miroiu, National School of Government, Bucharest.
Professor David Lane, University of Cambridge, Great Britain.
Professor Janos Matyas Kovacs, Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human
Sciences, Vienna.
Professor Ronald Linden, University of Pittsburgh, former Director for the
