Lavinia Stan Departmental Address: Department of Political Science Phone: (902) 867-5084 St. Francis Xavier University Fax: (902) 867-3243 Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada Email: [email protected] ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lavinia_Stan Web of Science/Publons ResearcherID: A-1337-2008 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=OZN8mWAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao ORCID Identifier: https://orcid.org/00 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Program Coordinator, Public Policy and Governance (PGOV), Brian Mulroney Institute of Government, St. Francis Xavier University, 2019-2020. Jules Leger Research Chair, St. Francis Xavier University, July 2018 – June 2020 Professor, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University, 2017 - present Chair, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University, May 2015 - May 2017 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University, 2009 - 2017 Member, Centre canadien d'études allemandes et européennes, Universite de Montreal, 2014 - present Visiting Professor, Centre canadien d'études allemandes et européennes, Université de Montréal, 2013-14 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, StFX, January 2004-2009 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Concordia University, 2006-2008 Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Political Science, Dalhousie University, 2001-2003 EDUCATION Ph. D., Political Science, University of Toronto, 2001 M.A., Political Science, University of Toronto, 1996 B.Com. (Honors Thesis), Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest, Romania, 1988 TEACHING EXPERIENCE PSCI 100 Introduction to Politics; PSCI 210 Introduction to Comparative Politics; PSCI 211 Comparative Politics I; PSCI 295 Religion and Politics; PSCI 314 Topics in European Politics/European Democracies; 1 PSCI 315 Democratization around the World; PSCI 335 Human Rights and International Justice; PSCI 345 Women and Politics; PSCI 361 Politics of Eastern Europe; PSCI 365 Russian Politics; PSCI 399 Research Methods in Political Science; PSCI 452 Seminar in Comparative Politics. TEACHING AWARD Merit Award for Teaching Excellency and Outstanding Contribution to Undergraduate Education, McMaster University, Ontario, 1997-1998. SUPERVISION and EXAMINATION Habilitation 2. Committee Member, Dr. Cosmin Budeanca (researcher at the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania, Bucharest), University of Bucharest, Romania, 27 June 2019. 1. Committee Member, Dr. Gabriel Andreescu (Associate Professor at the National School for Political and Administrative Sciences, SNSPA), University of Bucharest, Romania, June 2014. Doctoral 6. External Examiner, Kamila Anna Krygier, “Relative Deprivation, Justice Perceptions and Forgiveness of Victims in Poland and Uganda,” Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, June 2018. 5. Co-supervisor, Ruxandra Canache, “Vama Veche and the Culture of Dissent in Late Communist Romania,” Department of History, McGill University, December 2014-present. 4. External Examiner, Andrea Wagner, “Errors of Commission: EU Accession and the Struggle against Corruption in Romania,” Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Feb. 2016. 3. External Examiner, Monica Grigore, “Les pèlerines, la religion vécue et la Roumanie postcommuniste,” Department of Sociology, Universite de Montreal, September 2015. 2. External Examiner, Elena Irina Macovei, “Alternative online la discursul public din Romania si actorii lor” [Online Alternatives to the Public Discourse in Romania and Their Actors], Department of Sociology, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza of Iasi, Romania, September 2013. 2 1. External Examiner, Tamara Kotar, “Religion and Politics in Slovenia and Croatia,” Department of Political Science, Carleton University, January 2009. Master Thesis - Dalhousie University Carla Ball, “Perceptions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from the Perspective of South Africa’s New Generation,” Department of Political Science, 2002-2003. Supervisor of Honour’s Theses – Department of Political Science, StFX 21. Lyndsay Beaton, TBA, Public Policy and Governance Program, 2020-2021. 20. Mairin Sullivan, “Transition or Stagnation in Belarus,” 2020-2021. 19. Mackenzie Thomas, “Transitional Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: An In-depth Investigation of Rape and Sexual Violence Indictments,” 2019-2020. 18. Michaela Brand, “Mechanisms of Voter Influence: An Exploration into the Dimensions of Voting Preferences,” 2018-2019. 17. (together with Jim Bickerton) Annie Sirois, “How Women’s Participation in Students’ Unions Affects Political Participation Post-Graduation,” 2017-2018. 16. Joelle French, “The Attempt to Give Back the Irreversible: Transitional Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence in Times of War,” 2016-2017. 15. Lyndsay Scovil, “International Hybrid Courts as an Effective Mechanism of Transitional Justice,” 2016-2017. 14. Kerri Veno, “Undercover Communism: The Albanian Case of Failed Lustration,” 2015-2016. 13. Chelsea Murphy, “Reckoning with the Past: The Comfort Women of Imperial Japan and Sexual Violence during Times of War,” 2015-2016. 12. Nicholas Hiley, “Globalization and the Rise of Global Cities as Agents of Social Justice,” 2012-3. 11. Philip Jones, “Causes of Muslim Terrorism in Western Europe Post 9/11,” 2012-2013. 10. Sarah Jackson, “The International Criminal Court Is Here to Stay: The Prosecution of Thomas Lubanga and the Confirmation of the ICC as a Permanent International Human Rights Institution,” 2012-2013. 9. Maureen McEwan, “A Political Discourse Analysis of Latin American Truth Commission 3 Reports,” 2011-2012. 8. Christopher Millar, “A Crescent among Golden Stars: An Analysis of Turkish Accession to the European Union,” 2010-2011. 7. Frances Tibbolo, “Nigerian Youth’s Perceptions of Transitional Justice,” 2009-2010. 6. Alyssa MacDonald, “The Politics of Nationalist Memory: Transnational Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia,” 2009-2010. 5. Dana MacSween, “L’Affair des Foulards: Evaluating Its Repercussions on France,” 2008- 2009. 4. Matthew Davidson, “A Unified European Union Policy toward Religion?,” 2008-2009. 3. Robert Weir, “Democratization in Iraq: Does the Tree Suit the Soil?,” 2005-2006. 2. Andrea Boyd, “Political Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe: From Communism to Democracy,” 2005-2006. 1. Matthew Matchett, “Disputed Kosovo: Ethnic Conflict, Nationalist Politics and War,” 2004- 2005. RESEARCH GRANTS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Saint Francis Xavier University University Research Committee Award, 1 April 2019-31 March 2021 ($5,920). Jules Leger Research Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences, July 2018-July 2020. President’s Research Award, 2017. University Research/Publication/Teaching Award (URPTA, around $2,000 each), 2005-2006, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, and 2019-2020. University Research Committee Award, seed money, 2005 ($5,000). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Insight Grant #435-2014-0314, co-investigator, project “Between Devil’s Confessors and God’s Martyrs: Collaboration and Resistance of Religious Groups in Communist Romania,” 2014-2019 ($203,832). Standard Research Grant #410-2008-1916, principal investigator, project “From Repression to Cooperation: Religion and Politics in the Enlarged Europe,” 2008-2011 ($98,035). Small Institutional Grant, principal investigator, project “Is Justice Delayed Justice Denied?: The Post-Communist Politics of Revisiting the Communist Past,” July 2004 ($4,000). Standard Research Grant, principal investigator, project “Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Determinants and Outcomes,” 2003-2006 ($124,410). 4 Standard Research Grant #410-2002-469, co-investigator, project "Religion and Politics in Post- Communist Romania," 2002-2005 ($107,424). Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2001-2003 (declined in favor of the Killam Fellowship) ($75,000). Doctoral Fellowship, 1997-2000 ($52,800). Grants and scholarships from other sources Co-investigator, project on “New challenges for post-communist remembrance cultures: interdisciplinary perspectives in transitional justice,” The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, January 2019-December 2020 (£45,419). Co-applicant, Erasmus + mobility program between StFX and University Ovidius, Constanta, Romania, 2019. Collaborator, project on “How the memory of crimes committed by totalitarian regimes in Europe is dealt with in the member states,” principal investigator Carlos Closa, project JLS/2008/C4/006 commissioned by the Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security of the European Commission, 2008-2009 (accessed around 7,000 Euros). Collaborator in charge of “Mapping European Parliament Elections Programs in Romania,” part of the Mapping European Parliament Elections” project, coordinated by Berhard Rihoux, Universite Catholique de Louvain, April 2009 (accessed around 1,000 Euros). Collaborator, project on “Transitional Justice and Democratic Consolidation: Lessons from Eastern Europe and Latin America,” principal investigator Vesselin Popovski, a joint research program of Nuffield College, Oxford University, El Colegio de Mexico and United Nations University, Tokyo, 2008-2009 (accessed around 5,000 Euros). Izaac Walton Killam Memorial Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Dalhousie University, 2001-2003 ($80,000). University of Toronto, School of Graduate Studies Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-2001