New Europe College Yearbook 2011-2012 DANIEL BRETT ŞTEFANIA COSTACHE ANDREY DEVYATKOV FLORIAN GASSNER SORIN GOG ILYA N. KHARIN HYLARIE OURANIA DELYS KOCHIRAS RICCARDO NANINI BUKOLA ADEYEMI OYENIYI ZSUZSA PLAINER KATALIN PRAJDA AMY SAMUELSON Editor: Irina Vainovski-Mihai Copyright – New Europe College ISSN 1584-0298 New Europe College Str. Plantelor 21 023971 Bucharest Romania www.nec.ro; e-mail:
[email protected] Tel. (+4) 021.307.99.10, Fax (+4) 021. 327.07.74 ŞTEFANIA COSTACHE Born in 1980, in Bucharest Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2013) Dissertation: At the End of Empire: Imperial Governance, Inter-imperial Rivalry and “Autonomy” in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s) Research Grants and Fellowships offered by: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2012 – 2013 The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, August 2009 – May 2011 The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, March 2008 The Open Institute Society New York, August 2006 Participant in conferences and workshops in the United States of America Research conducted at the University of Illinois (2008 – 2009) and in projects developed by the United Nations Development Programme – Action for Cooperation and Trust (Cyprus) in partnership with the Association for Historical Research and Dialogue (AHDR), June-September 2010 Articles about Ottoman rule and the political networks between Constantinople and Walachia and Moldavia in the 18th and 19th centuries published in Germany and Romania WESTERNIZATION AS TOOL OF INTER- IMPERIAL RIVALRY: LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN WALLACHIA BETWEEN OTTOMAN CONTROL AND RUSSIAN PROTECTION (1829-1848) The Treaty of Adrianople, which concluded the Russian-Ottoman war of 1828-1829, was crucial to the Ottoman Empire’s position among the European powers and to the European dispute for influence in the Ottoman territories.