CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Details Work Experience

CURRICULUM VITAEPersonal DetailsName: Diana StanciuAddress: University of Bucharest, Dept. of Political ScienceSf. Stefan St. 24Bucharest – 2, zip code 023997, RomaniaHome Address: Calea Moşilor 117, Bl. 23, Sc. A, et. 5, ap. 17Bucharest – 2, zip code 020865, RomaniaTel.: +4021-610-5784E-mail: diana.stanciu@gmail.comDate of birth: November 19, 1967Nationality: RomanianWork ExperienceOctober 2007 – February 2008: advanced seminar on Neoplatonic Elements in Medievaland Early Modern Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilan University, Munich;since January 2001: Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest, Department ofPolitical Science – courses on History of Political Thought, Political Philosophy,Multiculturalism;November 1999: modular course on Cultural Characteristics: Similarities andDifferences in Southeastern Europe within the Master’s programme in SoutheastEuropean Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, CoordinatorProf. Thanos Veremis, Department of Political Science and Public Administration,(programme hosted by the University of Athens on behalf of the Network of SoutheastEuropean Universities, established under the auspices of the European Union RoyaumontProcess and supported by the Stability Pact for SEE);1998 – 2001: Assistant Professor at the University of Bucharest, Department of PoliticalScience;1995 – 1997: Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Bucharest, Department ofPhilology;1991 – 1996: Teacher of English at Spiru Haret and Jean Monnet High Schools,Bucharest.1

Education2004: PhD obtained with magna cum laudae at the University of Bucharest, Departmentof Philosophy – disertation on Shaftesbury’s ‘Characteristics’ – A ‘Socratic’ Programmeof the Eighteenth Century;1997-1998: MA in Medieval Studies obtained cum laudae at the Central EuropeanUniversity – thesis topic: The Ninth-Century Debate on Predestination and its PoliticalRelevance;1994: Definitivat – degree obtained after an exam and three years’ practice in the field ofsecondary education;1991-1995: B.A. at the University of Bucharest, Department of Philosophy – disertationon English Aesthetics in the 18 th Century;1986-1991: B.A. at the University of Bucharest, Department of Philology, Romanian-English Section – disertation on Theatrical Illusion in Shakespeare's ‘The Tempest’ andPirandello's ‘The Giants of the Mountains’;1981-1986: Teacher Training High-School “Carol I”, Cîmpulung – disertation on TheInfluence of Personality on the Process of Education.Other Courses, Research Grants and FellowshipsDecember 1997: CEU grant for undergoing research at the ÖsterreichischeNationalbibliothek, Vienna, towards the completion of the MA thesis;May 1998: CEU grant for undergoing research at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,Belgium, towards the completion of the MA thesis;May 1999: CEU grant for undergoing research at Università degli Studi Roma Tre,Biblioteca Nationale and Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina, Rome and at the Centrefor medieval research at Certoza del Galluzo, the National Central Library, the CentralCity Library and the Laurentian Library, Florence;1999-2000: Eastern Scholar fellowship – Civic Education Project, Bucharest;April 2000: World Bank Grant within the higher education support scheme at theUniversity of Bucharest for undergoing PhD research in London, at the British Library,the Public Record Office, The Institute of Historical Research and Warburg Institute;2000-2001: FCO/CEU fellowship – Research Graduate Student at the CambridgeUniversity, Faculty of History;2

2001-2002: Junior Fellow at New Europe College, Bucharest – research project onPopular Sovereignty and Coercive Power in Marsiglio of Padova’s ‘Defensor pacis’;March-July 2003: Junior Fellow at Collegium Budapest – research project on CambridgePlatonism, Freedom of Conscience and Toleration;February-June 2006: Mellon Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study inthe Humanities and Social Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences –towards the completion of the research project on Cambridge Platonism, Freedom ofConscience and Toleration;June-August 2006 – participation in the Summer Institute for American Politics andPolitical Thought organized at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst by the U.S.Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs;September-November 2006 – research fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies inthe Humanities – IASH, University of Edinburgh – towards the completion of theresearch project on Cambridge Platonism, Freedom of Conscience and Toleration;November-December 2006 – research fellowship at the University of St. Andrews,School of Classics, participation in the project on the reception of Augustine throughoutthe ages directed by Prof. Karla Pollmann and sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust;February 2007 – May 2008 – Humboldt research fellowship at the Ludwig MaximilianUniversity, Munich, Faculty of Philosophy, at the invitation of Dr. Heinrich C. Kuhn;September-October 2007 and January-March 2008 – Europe Research Fellowship offeredby the Humboldt Foundation for undergoing research in the British Library, the BodleianLibrary and the Warburg Institute;June 2008 – August 2008 – extension of the Humboldt research fellowship at the LudwigMaximilian University, Munich, Faculty of Philosophy, at the invitation of Dr.. HeinrichC. Kuhn;September 2008 – June 2009 – research fellowship at the Netherlands Institute forAdvanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy ofArts and Sciences – towards the completion of the research project on Divine Grace inthe Age of Liberalism: Tractarians Rediscovering Augustine, as part of the theme groupThe Post(Modern) Augustine: Aspects of His Reception from 1600 to 2000.Conferences and Lectures9-13 July 2000, Leeds International Medieval Congress, Session 508: Heaven MeetingEarth: Material Culture and Didactic Message, Organizer Prof. Gerhard Jaritz, Institutfür Realienkunde, Krems, Chair Prof. Norbert Schnitzler, Department of Medieval3

History, Technische Universität, Chemnitz – paper on The ‘Visio Bernoldi’ and itsDidactic Message;3-6 May 2001, Kalamazoo, 36 th International Medieval Congress, Session 85: Theologyof Grace in the Middle Ages, Organizer Prof. Aage Rydstrøm-Poulsen, University ofCopenhagen, Chair Prof. Otto Gründler, Western Michigan University – paper on Graceand Free Will within the Ninth-century Debate on Predestination;4-7 October 2001, Timişoara, 2 nd Annual Conference of the Romanian Association ofPolitical Science on Political Science Facing Shifting Realities, Political Theory Session,Chair Dr. Brânduşa Palade, National School of Political Studies, Bucharest – paper onCambridge Platonism, Freedom of Conscience and Toleration;21-23 February 2002, Budapest, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Rulership and Religion,at CEU, Medieval Studies Department, organized by CEU in cooperation with theInternational Association for the Study of Rulership MAJESTAS, Session II:Carolingians and Valois, Chair Prof. Gábor Klaniczay, CEU and Collegium Budapest –paper on Carolingian Rulers as Biblical Figures;15 January 2003, Bucharest, lecture on Shaftesbury’s ‘Characteristics’ and its PoliticalRelevance within the weekly lecture programme at the Institute of Political Research,Chair Prof. Daniel Barbu, University of Bucharest, Department of Political Science;25-28 September 2003, Bucharest, 4 th Annual Conference of the Romanian Associationof Political Science, Ethics and Political Values Section, Political Theory Session, ChairDr. Corneliu Berari, University of the West, Timişoara – paper on 3 rd Earl ofShaftesbury’s Polite Whiggism;7-9 April 2005, Cambridge, the 33 rd Renaissance Society of America Conference,Session Echoes of Ficino in Unexpected Places, sponsored by the Society of RenaissanceStudies, United Kingdom, Organizer Dr. Valery Rees, School of Economic Science,London, Chair Dr. Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge, Clare College, paper onThe Influence of Ficino’s Concept of Universal Religion upon Cudworth’s Defense ofRational Religion and Toleration;13-15 February 2006, Munich, conference on Ideal Constitutions in the Renaissance,organizer Dr. Heinrich C. Kuhn, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, and dr.Vasileios Syros, University of Helsinki, paper on Harrington’s Perfect Commonwealthand the Civic Humanism Tradition;17 March 2006, Amsterdam, lecture on Cambridge Platonism, Freedom of Conscienceand Toleration at the Free University, Faculty of Philosophy, invited by Dr. Govert J.Buijs;23-25 March 2006, San Francisco, the 34 th Renaissance Society of America Conference,Session Marsilio Ficino: Philosophy and Ethics in Ficino’s Circle, sponsored by the4

Society of Renaissance Studies, United Kingdom, organized by Dr. Valery Rees, Schoolof Economic Science, London, chaired by Prof. Michael J.B. Allen, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles, paper on Two Views of Being and the One;7-10 September 2006, Kappel am Albis, Switzerland, conference on The PatristicTradition and Intellectual Paradigms in the Seventeenth Century, organized by Prof.Karla Pollman, University of St. Andrews and Prof. Silke-Petra Bergjan, University ofZürich, paper on Augustine’s Legacy in the Cambridge Platonists and the DutchArminians;25 October 2006, Edinburgh, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities – IASH,University of Edinburgh, lecture on Cambridge Platonists and their Possible Aftermathin the Scottish Enlightenment;5 December 2006, St. Andrews, University of St. Andrews, St. Mary’s College, lectureon Re-Interpreting Augustine: Cambridge Platonists and Dutch Arminians on Grace andFree Will;6 June 2007, Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, lecture on Rational Religion andToleration as Defined by Ralph Cudworth;4 July 2007, Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University, lecture on Cambridge Platonistsand Rational Religion.BooksPublicationsShaftesbury’s ‘Characteristics’ – A ‘Socratic’ Programme of the Eighteenth Century(PhD thesis). Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2004;The Ninth-century Debate on Predestination and its Theologico-Political Context.Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2005;Heterodoxy, Ecclesiastical Authority and Political Power. Bucharest: BucharestUniversity Press, 2008;Ideal Constitutions in the Renaissance, eds. Heinrich C. Kuhn and Diana Stanciu.Frankfurt a.M. et al.: Peter Lang, 2008;Articles4 articles on Neagoe Basarab, Titu Maiorescu, Camil Petrescu and Eugeniu Speranţia inA History of Romanian Philosophical Works, ed. Ion Ianoşi. Bucharest: Humanitas, 1997,pp. 21-24, 115-17, 142-45, 168-69;5

“On the Evolution of the Ideas of Beautiful and Sublime within the English Aesthetics ofthe 18 th Century.” In The Life of a Scholar. Volume in honour of Prof. Ion Ianoşi, ed.Vasile Morar. Bucharest: All, 1998, pp. 187-209;3 articles on John of Salisbury, Marsilius of Padua, and William of Ockham in ADictionary of Fundamental Political Works, ed. Laurenţiu Ştefan-Scalat. Bucharest:Humanitas, 2000, pp. 217-24, 293-302, 355-63;‘Popular Sovereignty and Coercive Power in Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor pacis’ in theNew Europe College Yearbook 2001-2002, ed. Irina Vainovschi Mihai, pp. 319-352;‚Shaftesbury’s Characteristics – Philosophy and Cultural Politics’ in the University ofBucharest Yearbook, Political Science Series, ed. Laurenţiu Vlad, IV/2002, pp. 11-21;‘Grace and Free Will within the Ninth-century Debate on Predestination’ in KHÔRA:Revue d’études anciennes et médiévales – philosophie, théologie, sciences, 1/ 2003, eds.Alexander Baumgarten and Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban. Bucharest: Meridiane, pp. 115-29;‚The Ninth-century Debate on Predestination and Its Political Context’ in the Universityof Bucharest Yearbook, Political Science Series, ed. Laurenţiu Vlad, VI/2004, pp. 47-59;‘Ralph Cudworth, Rational Religion and Toleration’ in Studia Politica – RomanianPolitical Science Review, Vol. V, no.4/ 2005, ed. Daniel Barbu et al. Bucharest: Nemira,pp. 849-863;‘Re-interpreting Augustine: Ralph Cudworth and Jacobus Arminius on Grace and FreeWill‘, Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 11/2007, eds. Volker Drecoll and KarlaPollmann. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pp. 119-37;‘Practical Wisdom in Harrington’s Perfect Commonwealth’, Ideal Constitutions in theRenaissance, eds. Heinrich C. Kuhn and Diana Stanciu. Frankfurt a.M. et al.: Peter Lang,2008;‘Shibboleth: Liberty of Conscience and Tolerance in Seventeenth-century England’,Festschrift Andrei Plesu, ed. Bogdan Tataru-Cazaban. Bucharest: Humanitas, 2008;‘Augustine’s Legacy in the Cambridge Platonists and the Dutch Arminians’, ThePatristic Tradition and Intellectual Paradigms in the 17 th Century, eds. Karla Pollmannand Silke-Petra Bergjan. Niemeyer/ Series: Frühe Neuzeit, forthcoming 2008;‘Reviving the Interest in the Middle Ages in Postcommunist Romania’, Studies in EastEuropean Thought (Springer), forthcoming 2009;6

6 articles on Grace, Predestination, Cambridge Platonism, Arminianism, Pierre Bayleand William Ames for the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, ed.Karla Pollmann, forthcoming 2010;Translations (from English into Romanian)Olivia Manning. The Balkan Trilogy, 3 vols. Bucharest: Univers, 1994;E. Hobsbawm. Nations and Nationalism since 1780. Budapest: CEU Press, 1996;William McNeill. The Rise of the West. Chişinău: Arc, 2000;Francis Dvornik. The Slavs in European History and Civilization: Bucharest: All, 2001;Quentin Skinner. Machiavelli. Chişinău: Arc, 2001;Charles King. The Moldovans, Romania, Russia and the Politics of Culture. Chişinău:Arc, 2002 (2 nd prize of the Latin Union translation contest, 2003);Anthony D. Smith. Nationalism and Modernism. Chişinău: Epigraf, 2002;Paul Clarke. Learning Schools, Learning Systems. Chişinău: Arc, 2002;Robert Hole. Renaissance Italy. Bucharest: All, 2003;John Swift. Peter the Great. Bucharest: All, 2003;Will Kymlicka. Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, andCitizenship. Chişinău: Arc, 2005 (2 nd prize of the Latin Union translation contest 2006);J.B. Bury and Russell Meiggs. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great.Bucharest: All, 2006.7