CURRICULUM VITAE Svetlana Suveica, Ph.D. Personal Information ...

CURRICULUM VITAE
Svetlana Suveica, Ph.D.
Personal Information
Date of Birth 14.03.1971
Place of Birht Gaspar, Edinet district, Republic of Moldova
Citizenship Republic of Moldova/Romania
Family Status Married, two children
Position Humboldt senior research fellow, Georg Forster Programme (December
2012-May 2014), Institut fuer Ost-und Suedosteuropaforschung,
Regensburg
CAREER
09/2008 – present
(on leave) Associate Professor, Department of History and Philosophy, Moldova
State University, Chisinau, Moldova
09/2004 – present
(on leave) Senior lecturer, Associate professor, MA program in American studies,
American Studies Center - Department of Political and Administrative
Sciences, Moldova State University, Chisinau, Moldova
09/2000-06/2001 Visiting lecturer, Department of Political and Administrative Sciences,
MA program in International Relations, University of Banat, Timisoara,
Romania
09/2000-06/2001 Senior lecturer (part-time), Department of History and International
Relations, Free Independent University of Moldova (ULIM), Chisinau,
Moldova
12/1999- 10/2008 Senior lecturer, Department of History and Philosophy, Moldova State
University, Chisinau, Moldova
09/1997-11/1999 Lecturer, Department of History and Philosophy, Moldova State
University, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
11/1996-08/1997 Assistant-lecturer, Department of History and Philosophy, Moldova
State University, Chisinau, Moldova
01-11/1993 Research assistant (part-time), Scientific Lab “Bessarabia in
International Relations”, Department of History and Philosophy,
Moldova State University, Chisinau, Moldova
01-06/1992 History teacher (part-time), Secondary school nr. 19, Chisinau,
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Moldova
Additional Professional Experience
05/2012 External evaluator for Caucasus region, Carnegie Research Fellowship
Program, Carnegie Corporation of New York, USA
12/2004-10/2006 Adviser in Protocol and Media, Minister of Justice’s Office, Ministry of
Justice, Republic of Moldova, Chisinau
05/2005-09/2006 Interpreter/translator (English-Romanian-Russian), follow-up meetings
on Moldovan legislation, Council of Europe, Strasbourg – Ministry of
Justice, Chisinau
09/1998-01/2002 Translator (English-Russian-Romanian), Notary office
Mocanu&Zgardan, Chisinau, Moldova
EDUCATION
03/1999 Ph.D in History, “Al.I. Cuza University”, Iasi, Romania
Topic of PhD thesis: “Bessarabia within the Greater Romania in the
immediate period after the 1918 union”
11/1993-10/1996 Graduate Ph.D. studies, “Al. I. Cuza” University Iasi, Romania.
06/1993 Bachelor (Honor) degree in History and History education
Topic of BA thesis: “Personality and historical process: Mihai Viteazul
in European consciousness”
09/1988-06/1993 Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, Moldova State
University, Chisinau, Moldova
06/1988 Graduation from Secondary school nr.2 Edinet, Moldova. Golden
medal of merit
Additional Educational Experience
8-14/01/2012 „Social Engineering and Affirmative Action: Policies and Practices in
20th Century Eastern Europe”, Regional Seminar for Excellence in
Teaching, ReSET-OSI Program, Chisinau, Moldova
1-8/08/2012 “Downward Social Mobility and Strategies of Resistance and
Accommodation in Eastern Europe under Nazi and Communist Rule”,
Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching ReSET-OSI Program,
Chisinau, Moldova
1-8/-8/2011 “Social Mobility and Modernization in Eastern Europe in XX
Century”, HESP Regional seminar for excellence in teaching ReSET
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Program-OSI, Chisinau
10/2009-06/2010 Workshops on History education (monthly), Stanford History
Education Group (SHEG), Stanford University, California USA
9-13/03/2009 “Teaching Comparative History in Eastern Europe: Theory, Methods
and Case Studies Comparative History”, Workshop on course design,
CRC-CEU, Budapest, Hungary
05-06/2009 “Empowering Educators: English through Economic, Social, Political
and Cultural Studies”, Summer School, American Studies Center
(ASC) Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
09- 10/2004 “World Politics”, Graduat course in International and European
Studies, Birkbeck University of London, UK
02/1999 Higher education training, “Al. I. Cuza” University, Iasi, Romania,
supported by HESP, Soros Foundation Moldova
07-08/1999 “Global Governance and Human Security”, Summer school, CEU,
Budapest, Hungary
Language Skills
Romanian (native)
Russian (fluent)
English (fluent) (C1 certificate, The London Skills Institute, UK)
French (good) (B2, School of Foreing Languages for Adults, Chisinau,
Moldova)
German (moderate) (B2, on-going course, University of Regensburg)
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
12/2012-05/2014 Humboldt research fellowship, Georg Forster program for senior
researchers, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies,
Regensburg, Germany
Research topic: “Ambivalent reconfigurations of the post-imperial
space: Transnational design for post-World War One Bessarabia”
http://www.ios-regensburg.de/forschung/verflechtungen-undinterdependenzen/ursachen-und-wirkungen-von-migration-imvergleich/ambivalent-reconfigurations.html
10/2009-06/2010 Fulbright senior research fellowship, Stanford University-CREEES,
California USA, sponsored by US Department of State
Research topic: “The Bessarabian Question at the Paris Peace
Conference: The Krupenski Case”
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10/2009-06/2010 Guest fellow, Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), Stanford
University, California, USA
04-05/2007 Mobility research fellowship, European University in Sankt-Petersburg,
sponsored by OSI-HESP, Budapest Hungary
09-10/2001 Junior research fellowship, IRES Department, CEU, Budapest,
Hungary
01-02/2000 Research grant at OSA, Budapest, sponsored by OSA, Hungary
RESEARCH & MOBILITY GRANTS
Individual
07/2-13-02/2014 U.S. Embassy in Moldova Alumni small grant for the research project
“The Attitude of Moldovan Youth toward Religion and Human Rights”
11/2011 U.S. Embassy in Moldova Alumni small grant for the participation in
ASSEES annual convention “Authorities”, Washington D.C.
(November 17-20 2011)
05/2011 U.S. Embassy in Moldova Alumni small grant for the participation in
conference “The German Fulbright Alumni Association at 25:
Shaping a Changing World’, Berlin, Germany (6-7/05/2011)
10/2010 U.S. Embassy in Moldova Alumni small grant for the participation in
ISSOTL conference "Global Theories and Local Practices:
Institutional, Disciplinary & Cultural Variations" (Liverpool, 19-22
October 2010)
09/2008-09/2009 SOTL research grant “Teaching, Learning and Thinking Comparatively
in the History Classroom. (Anti-communist Resistance in Romania and
Moldovan S.S.R., 1944-1989)”, CEU-CRC and OSI-HESP, Budapest,
Hungary
02/2002-08/2003 Research grant to the UK National Archives, Kew, supported by JSC
“Promtehgas” Moldova
09/1999-06/2000 HESP grant “Student Research Lab in Comparative History”,
Department of History and Philosophy, Moldova State University,
supported by Soros Foundation Moldova
12/1995-01/1996 Research grant at the National Historical Archives of Romania,
Bucharest, sponsored by HESP, Soros Foundation Moldova
02-03/1996 Research grant at The National Archives of Romania, Cluj branch,
sponsored by HESP, Soros Foundation Moldova
Joint
09/2011-06/2013 ‘Inititative and Constraint in the Mapping of Evolving European Borders
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(ICMEEB)’, Jean Monnet Programme Joint grant, K1 activity (200599-
LLP-1-2011-1-RO-AJM-RE), supported by Education, Audiovisual and
Culture Executive Agency of EU, cordinated by Oradea University,
Romania. Participant
http://borders.cvce.eu/blog/-/blogs/the-jean-monnet-action-project-
initiative-and-constraint-in-the-mapping-of-evolving-european-borders-
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02-10/2012 „Erzwungene Lebenswege: Deportation und Auswanderung nach dem
Zweiten Weltkrieg in der Moldauischen Sowjetrepublik (1945-1965)“,
GWE Programm , EWZ Stiftung, coordinated by Moldova Institut
Leipzig. Participant
http://www.geschichtswerkstatt-europa.org/projektdetails/items/erzwungene_Lebenswege.html
01/2011-present “Valorification of documentary heritage of the Republic of Moldova”,
supported by the Academy of Science of Moldova, Chisinau. Project
participant
02/2010-02/2011 „Nation, Identität, Rechtsstaat in der Republik Moldova. Historische,
politisch-soziale Begriffe. Lexikon”, sponsored by BMBF Cermany and
the Academy of Science of Moldova, Chisinau. Project participant
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~mil/de/projekt-NationIdentitaet.html
07/2006-12/2007 “Individual and Corporation within the Public Space in Belarus-Moldova-
Ukraine” (joint), CASE Minsk, sponsored by Carnegie Corporation in
New York. Project participant
Management of University& Departmental Grants
05-12/2013 “Research Capacity Building in University”, Joint project of Moldova
State University Chisinau and European University of Humanities
Vilnius, Leadership for Higher Education Reform Programme
(LEADHER), supported by International Associations of Universities
(IAU). Project coordinator for MSU
10/2006-10/2009 “Comparative History Project”, Department of History and Philosophy,
Moldova State University, supported by HESP-CRC/OSI, Budapest,
Hungary
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LECTURES & CONTRIBUTIONS
Guest Lectures
23/10/2013 “Back to the Empire?! Alternative visions of belonging in the post-World
War One Bessarabia”, Oberseminar zur Geschichte Suedosteuropas,
Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
02/05/2013 “For the Holy and Just Cause!””, Centre for Southeast European Studies,
University of Graz, Austria
30/08/2012 “Von der Zwischenkriegszeit zur Wende. Parallelen in den historischen
Ereignissen Moldovas und Rumäniens”, Internationale Sommerschule
“Moldova und Südosteuropa. Historische, politische und kulturelle
Gemeinsamkeiten und Gegensätze”, MIL – DAAD, Chisinau
12/10/2011 “Bessarabians and Russian Émigrés to Paris, 1919-1920”, National
Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, Bucharest, Romania
12/04/2010 “Political Discourse and Historiography Debates: the
Bessarabian/Moldovan Case”, East Central European Center, Columbia
University, New York, USA
22/01/2010 “Political Discourse, Historiography Debates and Archival Documents:
the Bessarabian/Moldovan Case”, CREEES, Stanford University, California,
USA
Contributions to Conferences & Workshops (since 2007)
20-22/09/2013 “Continuity and/or Change?! A.N. Krupenskij and the ‘Russian project’ for
Bessarabia”, conference “Historical Turning Points and Biographical
Experience: Eastern Europe after the Collapse of Empires (1917-1921)”,
Institut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen in Nordosteuropa e. V.
(IKGN e.V.) an der Universität Hamburg - Nordost-Institut, Lueneburg,
Germany - contributor
11-13/09/2013 “Reviving Greater Russia, Reconfiguring Regional Borders? A “Russian
Project” for post-World War One Bessarabia”, conference
“Untergangsszenarien und Zukunftvisionen in den Imperien des Oestlichen
Europa (1830-1920)”, Herder-Institut fuer historische
Ostmitteleuropaforschung, Marburg, Germany - contributor
21-22/06/2013 “Alternative Vision of Belonging in the post-World War One Bessarabia”,
Black Sea Link Symposium “Agents or Objects? Rethinking some Chapters
of the History of the Black Sea Region (1812-2012)”, New Europe College,
Bucharest, Romania - contributor
10/06/2013 “Entering the EU through the back door"?! Debates on Romanian citizenship
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for Moldovans”, dissemination workshop of the research project ‘Inititative
and Constraint in the Mapping of Evolving European Borders (ICMEEB)’,
Jean Monnet Programme Joint grant, K1 activity (200599-LLP-1-2011-1-RO-
AJM-RE), supported by EACE-EU, Chisinau, Moldova – organizer, panel
moderator and contributor
09-12/12/2012 “Human rights and religion in Moldova”, conference “Religion and Human
Rights in Europe 2.0 (RHR)”, Universitaet Wuerzburg, Germany –
contributor
07/12/2012 “Entering the EU through the back door"?! Debates on Romanian citizenship
for Moldovans”, conference „Rumänien zwischen Einheitsvorstellung und
Vielfalt“, Universitaet Regensburg – IOS Regensburg, Germany - contributor
12-13/09/2012 “Debates on Romanian Citizenship for Moldovans”, “Sprachkonflikt und der
Streit um die mehrfache Staatsbürgerschaft in der Republik Moldau”,
Moldova Institut Leipzig (MIL) – DAAD, Chisinau, Moldova – contributor
22/032012 “Creating a Global Classroom, Acknowledging Social Issues: a
Moldovan-American Experience”. Conference “Distance Learning,
American Models of teaching in Law Schools”, Moldova State
University, Chisinau, Moldova - contributor
18/02/2012 “Creating a Global Classroom: Providing Collaborative Research
Opportunities for U.S. and Moldovan Students”, APSA Teaching and
Learning Conference, Washington D.C., (with J. Scourfield McLauchlan) –
contributor via Skype
10/02/2012 “The Transnational Construction of Borders after World War One: the Case
of Bessarabia”, Forschungskolloqvium “Neue Perspektiven in der Suedostund
Osteuropaeischen Geschichte”, Universitaet Regensburg – IOS,
Regensburg, Germany - contributor
01/12/2011 “The Moldovans – A Nation?!” Inaugural conference, launching of the
European Association of US Alumni (ENAM), Rome – opening round table
contributor
19/11/2011 “Fighting for the “Russian Bessarabia”: Backstage Diplomacy and
Propaganda during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-1920”, ASEEES
annual convention “Authorities”, Washington D.C., USA – contributor
05/09/2011 “On double citizenship of Moldovans”, workshop ‘Nationale Minderheiten
und Menschenrechte im Kontext der europäischen Integration in der Republik
Moldova’, DAAD and Universität Leipzig - Chisinau, Moldova - contributor
08-09/04/2011 “Bessarabia in the first Interwar Decade: Modernization by Means of
Reforms” and “From MSSR to Moldova”, Doctoral workshop ‘The
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comparative perspective on Bessarabia and Lithuania’, Vienna Doctoral
College for ‘European Historical Dictatorship and Transformation Research’,
University of Vienna, April 6-8 2011 – contributor and expert
06-07/05/2011 “History education: the Moldovan case” and “Democracy in Moldova”,
international conference ‘The German Fulbright Alumni Association at
25: Shaping a Changing World’, Berlin, Germany –round table
moderator, closing table panellist, and contributor
11/12/2010 “Go SOTL! A Manifesto for researching teaching and learning”,
conference ‘Strengthening Democracy through Civic Engagement’,
American Studies Center - IREX Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova –
organizer and contributor
02/12/2010 “The concept of property rights in Bessarabia and Moldova”, workshop
‘The History of Social-Political Concepts’, Moldova-Institut Leipzig,
Germany - contributor
20/10/2010 “Thinking Comparatively in Moldovan History Classroom”, ISSOTL
annual convention‘Global Theories and Local Practices: Institutional,
Disciplinary and Cultural Variations’, Liverpool, UK – contributor
24/09/2010 “British and American Archives for the study of Bessarabien History”,
round table “Access to the archives of Republic of Moldova: Realities
and Prospects”, Moldova State University – National Archives of
Republic of Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova - contributor
09/10/2010 “Union of Bessarabia with Romania and Bessarabian landowners: the
Sinadino case”, international conference ‘Romanian Space between
Imperial Frontiers’, Moldova State University, Chisinau, Moldova -
contributor
18-19/09/2010 “Russian Political Conference and Bessarabian issue, 1919”, conference
‘Foreign and Romanian diplomats in Romanian History’, Institute of
History, The Academy of Science of Romania, Iasi, Romania -
contributor
22/04/2010 “Teaching comparatively in Moldovan history classroom”, Stanford
History Education Group (SHEG), Stanford University, California USA -
contributor
01/11/2009 “Encouraging Students to Study Comparatively: American Images about
the USSR and Soviet Images about the USA during the Cold War Era”,
international conference “Ten Years with America: “Sailing Unchartered
Waters”, International Conference, 10 th Anniversary of the American
Studies Centre of Moldova 1998-2008, Chisinau, Moldova – contributor
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09/12/2008 “Politics and Historiogrpahy in Moldavian SSR”, “Historiography and
Politics in Western and Eastern Parts of Romanian Space”, conference
within CEU-HESP Comparative History Project, Moldova State
University, Chisinau, Moldova – organizer and contributor
06/01/2007 “Encouraging Students to Study Comparatively at Moldova State
University”, “Comparative History: Theory and Practice”, workshop
within CEU-HESP Comparative History Project, coordinated by
Department of History, CEU, Budapest, sponsored by HESP-OSI,
Budapest Hungary - organizer and contributor
Organization of Conferences & Workshops
05-08/09/2012 “History and Historians in Republic of Moldova”, round table with the
participation of Acad.Oliver Jens Schmidt, Austrian Academy of Science
09/12/2008 “Historiography and Politics in Western and Eastern Parts of Romanian
Space”, conference within CEU-HESP Comparative History Project,
supported by CEU, Budapest, sponsored by HESP-OSI, Budapest,
Hungary
06/01/2007 “Comparative History: Theory and Practice”, workshop within CEU-
HESP Comparative History Project, coordinated by Department of
History, CEU, Budapest, sponsored by HESP-OSI, Budapest, Hungary
MEMBERSHIPS & DUTIES
Professional
11/2013 – present Member of Moldova Institut Leipzig
03/2013 - present Regional director for Russia and Eastern Europe, The International
Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History
(HistorySOTL). http://www.indiana.edu/~histsotl/blog/
12/2012 - present Board member, The National Association for Young Historians of
Moldova – ANTIM. http://antim.md/en/antim/echipa-antim
09/2008 - present Member of Specialized Scientific Seminar for PhD studies in Romanian
History at Moldova State University, Chisinau, Moldova
09/1993 - present Member of the Historians’ Association of Moldova
Editorial
01/2012- present Advisory Committee, Eurolimes. Journal of the Institute of the
Euroregional Studies, “Jean Monnet” European Center of Excellence
Oradea - Debrecen
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NGO
06/2011-06/2013 President, Creative Development Association – US Alumni association
of Moldova
06/2010 - present Member of Creative Development Association – US alumni of Moldova
http://usalumni.md/
AWARDS
10/2006 Medal “Moldova State University” for professional achievements
Participation in Radio/TV Programs (recent)
22/09/2013 Interview for Bavarian TV, documentary film on 60 th anniversary of
Humboldt Foundation
24/06/2012 RePublica program, Publika TV, Moldova
28/06/2012 Moldova in direct program, Moldova 1
05/09/2012 Interview for Radio 1 Vienna, Austria
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