Name Petru Negura | ||
Born May 17, 1974 (age 49)
Chisinau ( 1974-05-17 ) Alma mater "Ion Creanga" Pedagogical State University in Moldova | ||
Petru Negura (born May 17, 1974, Chisinau) is a sociologist from the Republic of Moldova.
Biography
Petru NEGURA is lecturer at "Ion Creanga" State Pedagogical University in Chisinau. He helds his Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Petru Negura was invited scholar / lecturer at the Ecole Doctorale en Sciences Sociales of Bucharest (EDSS, the University of Bucharest), at the EHESS, Paris, and University of California, Berkeley (CASE Program, Carnegie Foundation's scholarship, and Fulbright visiting scholar). From 2010 to 2013, Petru Negura was country coordinator of the Academic Fellowship Program (Open Society Foundations / HESP) in Moldova. From 2011, he is the director of the PLURAL Forum in Social Sciences, based in Chisinau. He is also co-founder and co-editor of platzforma.md, an independent outlet of critical thinking and social analysis. He authored tens of academic articles for regional and international academic journals and a book (Ni heros, ni traitres. Les ecrivains moldaves face au pouvoir sovietique sous Staline, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2009, and, in Romanian translation, at Cartier, Chisinau, 2014). His current research topics are the sociology / social history of intellectuals in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, the sociology / social history of public education in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the sociology / social history of the social welfare services in the USSR and post-Soviet Moldova.