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Dr. Petru Negura

History Department
Scholarship Holder
IOS/Wolfgang Steinbacher
Tel.: +49 941 94354-25 negura@ios-regensburg.de
  • Description
  • Publications
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Presentations

Description

Petru Negura is currently a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Georg Forster Program) at the IOS. Negura holds a PhD in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He authored the book Ni héros, ni traîtres. Les écrivains moldaves face au pouvoir soviétique sous Staline (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009), translated and re-edited in Romanian in 2014 (Cartier Publ., 2014). Negura is an associate professor at the Free International University of Moldova (Chisinau) and researcher at the Centre for Sociology and Social Psychology within the Institute of Legal, Political and Sociological Research. Negura also heads the PLURAL Forum for Interdisciplinary Studies in Chisinau. His academic interests focus on the sociology/social history of intellectuals, of public education and social welfare in Eastern Europe and the former USSR.

Publications

Publikationen

Journal Articles

Negura, Petru/Gasper, Lucia/Potoroaca, Mihai: Institutional Trust and Citizen Support for the Government Socioeconomic Policy in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Republic of Moldova. In: Calitatea Vieții, 30, 1, 2022, S. 3-23. (Refereed Journal, Open Access)
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DOI: 10.46841/RCV.2022.01

Negura, Petru: Bogdan Bucur. Sociologia proastei guvernări în România interbelică. București: RAO, 2019. 728 pp. (Buchrezension). In: Journal of Romanian Studies, 4, 1, 2022, S. 143-145. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal)
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DOI: 10.3828/romanian.2022.9

Negura, Petru: Peripheries at the centre. Borderland schooling in interwar Europe, by Machteld Venken, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, 2021, 280 pp., £96.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 1 78920 967 9. In: National Identities, (online) 17 Oct 2022, 2022. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal)
DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2022.2132718

Negura, Petru: Nation-building and mass schooling of ethnic minorities on the Romanian and Soviet peripheries (1918–1940): a comparative study of Bessarabia and Transnistria. In: National Identities, 23, 4, 2021, S. 433–454. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal)
DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2021.1873931

Negura, Petru/Cusco, Andrei: Public Education in Romania and Moldova, 19-20th Centuries: Modernization, Political Mobilization, and Nation-Building. An Introduction. In: PLURAL. History, Culture, Society, 9, 1, 2021, S. 5-10. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
DOI: 10.37710/plural.v9i1_1

Negura, Petru: Moldova’s Thirty-Year Search for Independence. In: Current History, 120, 828, 2021, S. 268–273. (Journal with Impact Factor)
DOI: 10.1525/curh.2021.120.828.268

Negura, Petru/Gasper, Lucia/Potoroaca, Mihai: Trust in Institutions, Social Solidarity, and the Perception of Social Cohesion in the Republic of Moldova in the Early Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Comparative Southeast European Studies, 69, 4, 2021, S. 453–481. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2021-0034

Negura, Petru: Dorina Roșca, Le grand tournant de la société moldave. «Intellectuels» et capital social dans la transformation post-socialiste, Paris: Presses de l’Inalco, 2019, 359 pp.. In: Journal of Romanian Studies, 3, 1, 2021, S. 127-131. (Refereed Journal)
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Negura, Petru: Dorina Roșca, Le grand tournant de la société moldave. «Intellectuels» et capital social dans la transformation post-socialiste, Paris: Presses de l’Inalco, 2019, 359 pp.. In: PLURAL. History, Culture, Society, 9, 1, 2021, S. 213-216. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
DOI: 10.37710/plural.v9i1_11

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Negura, Petru: Work, Subsistence and Distress of the Homeless in Moldova. In: Polese, Abel (Hrsg.): Informality, Labour Mobility and Precariousness: Supplementing the State for the Invisible and the Vulnerable. London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, S. 343–369.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-82499-0_14

Negura, Petru/Negura, Ion: Génération avant 1945: Ion Negură. In: Durandin, Catherine/Folschweiller, Cécile (Hrsg.): Enfances communistes. Mémoires de Roumanie et de République de Moldavie. Paris: Petra, 2022, S. 135-162.

Discussion Papers

Negura, Petru/Gasper, Lucia/Potoroaca, Mihai: Moldova’s Social Policy Response to Covid-19: Citizen Support for Government Initiatives. In: CRC 1342 Covid-19 Social Policy Response Series, 35, Bremen: University of Bremen 2021. (Open Access)
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Online Publication/Blog posts

Negura, Petru: “Transnistria Needs a Multi-party System”. In: OstBlog Ost- und Südosteuropa im Fokus der Wissenschaft, 2021. (Open Access)
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Negura, Petru: Reconfiguring politics in Moldova. In: OstBlog Ost- und Südosteuropa im Fokus der Wissenschaft, 2021. (Open Access)
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Negura, Petru: Moldova against COVID-19: solitary or solidary?. In: OstBLOG Spezial Corona in Ost- und Südosteuropa, 2020. (Open Access)
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Curriculum vitae

Professional Career
  • Senior research fellow, The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Georg Forster Program – The Institute for East and South-East European Studies in Regensburg, Germany, working on the research project “Primary Education, Nation-Building, and Cultural Clashes in the Border Areas of USSR, Romania, and Poland in the Interwar Period (1918-1940)”, 10/2020—present
  • Associate Professor, Free International University of Moldova (ULIM) – Chisinau, Moldova, Lecturing Social work with oppressed people, Research Methodology in Sociology and Social Work, Sociology of groups, Project elaboration and administration in the social field, 09/2017—present
  • Co-editor and author, The independent outlet PLATZFORMA.MD – Chisinau, Moldova, co-editing and publishing articles on social and human rights issues – published more than 500 original articles signed by almost 100 authors. Personal contribution: about 40 articles, 09/2013—present
  • Director, Plural Forum for Interdisciplinary Studies (NGO) – Chisinau, Moldova, Managed and realized, with a team of 8 people, social investigations and academic research projects on various social issues and with the support of Open Society Foundations, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, US Embassy in the Republic of Moldova, OAK Foundation (UK), and the Moldovan government: https://www.plural.md, 01/2011—present
  • Visiting Professor, Ecole Doctorale Francophone en Sciences Sociales – Bucharest, Romania, Teaching courses: The Case Study as an Interdisciplinary Research Strategy, The Biographic Method in Social Research, and Thematic Content Analysis using NVivo Software; Supervised students’ PhD projects, 01/2010—present
  • Board member, GENDERDOC-M Information Centre – Chisinau, Moldova, Promoting strong and far-reaching projects for LGBTQI+ rights in Moldova, 12/2016—12/2020
  • Board Member, Society for Romanian Studies – Washington DC, USA, Developing various projects; co-organizing an international conference in June 2018; coordinating the website content and setting up a mentoring program, 03/2016—12/2019
  • Board member, Soros Foundation Moldova – Chisinau, Moldova, Contributed to assess projects, aiming at strengthening civil society initiatives that promote democracy, human rights, and social justice in Moldova, 01/2017—03/2018
  • Lecturer, State Pedagogical University „Ion Creanga” – Chisinau, Moldova, Teaching courses in Social work and Sociology, including Quality of Life, Research Methodology. Leading students’ theses, 09/2009—06/2017
  • Moldova Country Coordinator, Academic Fellowship Program - HESP, Open Society Foundations – Chisinau, Moldova, Managed the program in cooperation with four departments in humanitiesin two universities with 12 fellows and five International Scholars to enhance academic performance, international cooperation and commitment to democratic values, 09/2010—08/2013

Presentations

2021
  • Discipline and Punishment in the Rural Schools of Soviet and Romanian Border Areas, 1918-1940: The Case of Bessarabia and Transnistria. ASEEES 2021 Convention The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Hybrid/ New Orleans, USA, 02.12.2021.
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  • Resistance to Schooling and Nation-Building in the Soviet and Romanian Borderlands During the Interwar Period (1918-1940). The ASN Convention 2021, May 6-8 The Association for the Study of Nationalities, Online/ New York, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, USA, 06.05.2021.
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  • Confiance institutionnelle, solidarité sociale et cohésion sociale en République de Moldavie dans le contexte de la pandémie COVID-19. Webinar „Entre déconfinement et vaccinations L´Europe centrale et orientale face à la deuxième vague du Covid-19”, at CEVIPOL, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) CEVIPOL, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Hybrid/CEVIPOL, ULB, 23.03.2021.
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  • Social Cohesion and Social Capital from a Bottom-up Perspective: The Case of Moldova during the Covid-19 Crisis. Recast Training School In The Humanities & The Social Sciences 2021, Edition Democratic Constitutionalism and Rights, hosted by the Institute of Legal, Political and Sociological Research, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. Training, COST Action CA 16211. Organized by profs. Jan Harald Alnes, Sia Spiliopolou Åkermark, Alexandru Roșca & José María Rosales. the Institute of Legal, Political and Sociological Research, Moldovan Academy of Sciences, Chișinău, Moldova, Online/ the Institute of Legal, Political and Sociological Research, Chișinău, Moldova, 10.02.2021.
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2020
  • Institutional trust, support to government and forms of solidarity in Moldova during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Seminarreihe des Arbeitsbereichs Ökonomie am IOS Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, Online/ IOS, 24.11.2020.
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  • Nation-Building and Resistance to Schooling on the Romanian and Soviet Peripheries (1918-1930): A Comparative Study of Bessarabia and Transnistria. ASEEES 2020 Convention The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Online/ Washington DC, USA, 06.11.2020.
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