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Raluca Grosescu

is PhD in Political Science at University Paris Ouest Nanterre. Selected publications: Communist Elites Before and After 1989 (Jassy: Polirom, 2007); A History of the Romanian Communism. Textbook for High School (Jassy: Polirom, 2008); Transitional Criminal Justice: from Nurnberg to the Romanian Post-communism (Jassy: Polirom, 2009). She has studied the political conversion of the Romanian communist elites after 1989.  and the transitional justice that fallowed the demise of the communist regime. Starting with 2006, she coordinated the Research and Documentation Department within the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania, where she was actively involved in research and educational projects. Research interests: political elites in comparative perspective; transitional justice; political transformation and legacy in post-communist states.
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Andrei Lascu

graduated the Political Science Faculty, at the University of Bucharest. He co-authored Prison Experiences in Communist Romania, vol. I-IV., Iasi, Polirom, 2007-2010. He studied the detention life of political prisoners, through interviews with the survivors of the Romanian communist prisons. Research interests: the political views among the group members in the Romanian Resistance; manipulation through art in totalitarian regimes; censorship in cinema and television.
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Corina (Pălăşan) Doboş

is undertaking her PhD studies in History at the University of Bucharest, with a thesis on Scientific representations  of the criminals in modern Romania. She is a graduate of Central European Universiy (M.A. in Nationalism Studies, June 2004) and University of Bucharest (M.A. In History, June 2007). At IICCMEr she has coordinated a research project on the natalist policies of Ceausescu’s regime. As holder of a DAAD research scholarship she has also studied the development of criminology in Central Europe at the turn of the 19th century. Her accademic interests revolve around the representations of human body, medical semiotics, biopolitics, history of criminology and of delinquence.
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Constantin Vasilescu

has a master degree in history at the University from Bucharest. Since 2007, he works as researcher within the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and Memory of the Romanain Exile. He is co-author of the 4 volumes of Prison experiences in communist Romania, Iasi, Polirom, 2007-2010.
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Adelina Ţînţariu

is collaborator of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and Memory of the Romanian Exile starting with 2008, time in which she was involved both in the research activity and in coordination of several educational projects. She has a master degree in Comparative Politics, University of Bucharest. Main interests: dilemmas of transitional justice in East- Central Europe, the reform of the Romanian secret services after 1989, the Securitate and its role in the extermination of the democratic elites after 1948.
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