Asistent drd. Mirela Nemeș

CURRICULUM VITAE1. PERSONAL DETAILSLast Name:NemesFirst Name:MirelaPlace of Birth:Sibiu, RomaniaNationality:RomanianPermanent Address: P-ta Unirii Nr. 28 ap 2, 3400 Cluj, RomaniaPhone: +40 740 203013E-mail:mnemes@polito.ubbcluj.ro, nemes@yahoo.comCurrent occupation: Assistant Professor and PhD Student - Babes -Bolyai University2. EDUCATION2000 - 2001 Syracuse University, USA Maxwell School of Citizenship andPublic Affairs Master of Arts Candidate in Public AdministrationCourses completed:Program Evaluation, Advanced Policy Analysis, PoliticalLeadership, Managerial Leadership, Policy and Administration inDeveloping Countries, Public Budgeting, Statistics, E-Commerce1992 - 1996 Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania Bachelor of Arts inPsychology3. SUPPLEMENTARY STUDIESApril - August 1998Courses completed:University of California Irvine, USA Junior FacultyDevelopment Program - study and research stageProbabilities and Statistics for Social Science, Political Psychology4. LANGUAGE SKILLS (5-excellent, 4-very good, 3-good, 2-fair, 1-slight)Reading Speaking WritingRomanianNativeEnglish 5 5 5French 5 3 3

5. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEDate:Company:Location:Position:Description:January 1999 - August 2000, January 2002 - presentBabes-Bolyai UniversityCluj, RomaniaAssistant Professor, Public Administration and Political ScienceDepartment, PhD Student European Studies Department1999-2000, 2002 - present Developed and taught seminars inpublic policy, research methods and political psychology Conducted extensive analyses of public opinion surveydatabases Co-directed a project on Romanian electors politicalattitudes (including proposal writing and fundraising, designingsampling and data collection methods for a national survey,analyzing data and reporting results) Participated in writinggrant proposals for collective projects Contributed toorganizational planning activities Translated course materialsfrom English in Romanian1996-1999 Associate Teaching Assistant Assisted withteaching for public policy and political psychologyDate: August 2000 - August 2001Company:Global Affairs Institute, Maxwell School, SyracuseUniversityLocation:Syracuse, New YorkPosition:Visiting Scholar with the Crisis Management Project(CRISMART)Responsibilities:Conducted case study research on governmental level crisismanagement in RomaniaDate: August 2001 - December 2001Company:University of California Irvine, Political Science DepartmentLocation:Irvine, CaliforniaPosition:Research intern with the Political Psychology ConcentrationResponsibilities:Assisted with the development of a research project ondeliberative democracyDate: March 1998, March 1999, July 2002, July 2003Company:Babes-Bolyai University and Soros FoundationLocation:Cluj, RomaniaPosition:Instructor, National School of Statistics and SPSSDescription: Taught courses on descriptive statistics and analysis ofvariance, time series analysis

6. AWARDSFellowships: Civic Education Project (OSI) Local Faculty Fellow, 2002-2003 Ron Brown Fellowship (IIE) for East European Graduate Students, 2000 SSCD Junior Faculty Development Fellowship, (IREX) 1998Research Grants: Grant from the Romanian Ministry of Education for - “Reconstruirea ideologiilorpolitice in societatea postcomunista, o abordare social-cognitiva” (On thereconstruction of ideological orientations in post-communist societies, a socialcognition approach), 1998.Grant from the Social Science Curriculum Development Program of theInternational Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and American Council ofLearned societies (ACLS) for “Change in Political Options of Romanian ElectorsProject” 1997- 1999, $4107 (funded). With Prof. V.BoariGrant from the Social Science Curriculum Development Program of theInternational Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and American Council ofLearned Societies for research development, 1999. Conducted research on politicalcommunication.7. PUBLISHED RESEARCH AND CONFERENCE PAPERSCommunicative Action, Cultural Identity, and Community Development Studia UniversitatisBabes-Bolyai, Politica, 2004, Cluj-NapocaPoverty and Reform in Hungary, Electronic Journal EAST, 8/2002,New Ideas About Leadership at Work in the Work Place Revista Transilvana de StiinteAdministrative (Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences), 1(7)/2002Rolul medierii culturale a mesajului persuasiv in formarea preferintelor electorale, in vol. StudiiPolitice, Editura Universitatii Babes-Bolyai Cluj, 2002Ion Iliescu - the Political Leadership Style in Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Politica,2001, Cluj-NapocaReconstruirea ideologiilor politice in societatea postcomunista, o abordare social-cognitiva, StudiaUniversitatis Babes-Bolyai, Politica, 1997/1998, Cluj-Napoca.Democratic Culture and the Support for the Administrative Institutions, InternationalConference on Public Administration, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Octomber 2-4 1998

On the Reconstruction of Romanian Political Thinking, “Building Bridges, 5 th StudentColloquium on Romania”, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Mai 1998