Стелла Гервас
I received a PhD of History from the University of Bucarest (Romania) and a PhD of Humanities (section "European Studies") from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). I also hold a Bachelor and Master of Philosophy and Political Sciences of the University of Saint-Petersburg (Russia) and was a post-graduate of European studies at the European Institute of the University of Geneva (Switzerland).
I am currently Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Chicago where I am giving a course on "Cultural and Political Foundations of European Unity" (Department of Political Sciences and Department of History). I am Associate Director of Studies at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Paris and I am working on the project Enlarged Europe: from the Holy Alliance to the Treaty of Lisbon. I am also Research Fellow of the Institute for South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy (Bucharest) and I contribute 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).
I 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). I 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.
In my research projects and courses, I consider the history of Europe as a whole, both in time (from the Congress of Vienna to the 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.
My publications include over 30 specialized articles on the cultural and political history of Europe, in particular on the intellectual relations between Eastern European countries (Russia and the South-East) and the West during the XIXth-XXth centuries. I have written several articles and reviews on the geopolitics of the orthodox world as well as political and cultural imaginations in Europe. I have also written two monographs on the political and religious movements of the early XIXth century (Holy Alliance, Restauration), and coordinated and edited two books on European history and geography, with a particular focus on European identity (both in a comparative and transnational view).
My book Réinventer la tradition. Alexandre Stourdza et l´Europe de la Sainte-Alliance was awarded the Prix Guizot from the Académie Française in 2009, the Xenopol Prize from the Romanian Academy in 2010, the Prize and Merit Diploma from the Academy of Sciences of Moldova in 2009, and nominated for the Grand Prix d'Histoire Chateaubriand (France).
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