Stella Ghervas is Associated Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Paris. She is currently working on the project Expanded Europe: from the Holy Alliance to the Treaty of Lisbon and is giving a seminar on this subject. As of November 2009, she will be Associated Director of Studies at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris.
She is also Research Fellow for Institute for South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy (Bucharest) and contribues to the inter-academic exchange programme Russian relations with Romania and the European countries of the South-East (XVIII-XXth centuries) with the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy (Moscow).
She was Assistant Professor until 2005 at the European Institute of the University of Geneva and coordinated the Studies Group for European Imaginations (GEIE) of the European Centre of Coppet (Switzerland). She was also Research Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International Studies (IUHEI) of Geneva, as well as Invited Research Fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (MSH) and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.
She received a PhD of History from the University of Bucarest and a PhD of Arts (section "European Studies") from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). She is also a Master of Philosophy and Political Sciences of the University of Saint-Petersburg (Russia) and a post-graduate of European studies at the European Institute of the University of Geneva (IEUG).
Her research projects and her courses consider the history of Europe as a whole, both in time (from the Congress of Vienna to present time) and in space (including the West, the South-East and Russia), at the interface between the history of ideas and the history of international relations.
Stella Ghervas also authored several publications wich include over 30 specialized articles on the cultural and political history of Europe, in particular on the intellectual relations between Eastern Europan countries (Russia and the South-East) and the West during the XIXth-XXth centuries She wrote several articles and reviews on the geopolitics of the orthodox world as well as political and cultural imaginations in Europe. She wrote two monographies on the political and religious movements of the early XIXth century (Holy Alliance, Restauration), coordinated and edited two books on European history and geography, with a particular focus on European identity (both in a comparative and transnational view).
Her book Réinventer la tradition. Alexandre Stourdza et l´Europe de la Sainte-Alliance received in 2009 the Guizot Prize for history from the French Academy (Académie française).