Raluca Grosescu
Position within IICCMRE
Coordinator of the Public Policies and Partnerships DepartmentPlace and date of birth
Bucharest, 5 December 1977Education
2010: PhD in Political Science, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre;2001-2002: Master degree in Political Sciences, Marne la Valée, Paris;
1996-2001: Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Faculty of Journalism and Science of Communication, University of Bucharest.
Raluca Grosescu
Work Experience
March 2010 - at present: Coordinator of the Public Policies and Partnerships Department, IICCMRE2006 – 2010 : Coordinator of the Documentation and Research Department, The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania
2006: Assistant researcher at Groupe d’Analyses Politiques, CNRS, France;
2004-2005: Research Coordinator at the Invisible College – Centre for Advanced Studies in Political Sciences, Bucharest;
2005- at present: Member of the editorial committee of the La Nouvelle Alternative revue ;
2002-2004: Journalist, Radio France Internationale, Paris.
Scholarships, Grants, Professional Training
2010: Postdoctoral New Europe College Scholarship, Bucharest, Romania2009 : Konrad Adenauer Fondation financial support for the publishing of the book Transitional Criminal Justice from Nurnberg to Post-communist Romania
2003: King-Groza Award for the best paper presented at the Forth Annual Conference of the Romanian Society of Political Science;
2002 - 2005: French Government Fellowship for Doctoral Studies;
2004: Fellowship awarded by the Soros Foundation for doctoral studies at The University Paris X Nanterre;
2001: Italian Government Research Fellowship awarded for research in political sciences at the Rome III University.
Books, scientific articles
Transitional Criminal Justice from Nurnberg to Post-communist Romania, Iasi, Polirom, 2009 (co-authored with Raluca Ursachi)A History of the Romanian Communism – High-School Textbook, Iasi, Polirom, 2008 (co-author)
Communist Elites Before and After 1989, 2007 IICCR Yearbook, Iasi, Polirom, 2007, (coordinator)
La Roumanie un nouveau départ, coordinator of the No. 64 – 65/ 2005 of the La Nouvelle Alternative revue, (coordinator together with Etienne Boissière)
"Transitional Criminal Justice in Post-communist Romania", Forum Romania VII, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, to be published in 2010
"The Political Conversion of the Romanian Communist Elites: 1989 - 2000", in Mihai Dinu Gheorghiu (coord.), The Mobility of the Romanian Elites during the XXth Century, Bucharest, Paralela 45, 2008
"The role of the Romanian civil society in the partial failure of the post-communist transitional justice", Lustration and the Rule of Law, Croatian Institute for Political Science, Zagreb, 2007
"La justice de transition postcommuniste en Roumanie", Communisme, n°. 91 – 92 / 2007
"Toward a taxonomy of the political parties created by the former Romanian nomeklatura", Anuarul IICCR, n° 2 / 2007
"The physiognomy of the nomeklatura", Anuarul IICCR, n° 1 / 2006
“The Political Regrouping of the Romanian Nomenklatura during the 1989 Revolution”, in Romanian Journal of Society and Politics, N° 4/2, May/2004;