Thirty-eight new European Research Area (ERA) Chairs are to be appointed by the European Commission this year; one of them is Dr. Lavinia Stan from the StFX Department of Political Science.
The ERA Chairs, which are financed for five years at 2.5 million Euros each as part of the HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01, are senior academics with outstanding expertise in their fields of study.
As the new ERA Chair, Dr. Stan, together with Drs. Ionela Vlase and Mihaela Herciu (both of Universitatea Lucian Blaga of Sibiu), will build a research team of professors, post-docs and doctoral students working at the intersection of church, state and body politics at the Universitatea Lucian Blaga of Sibiu, Romania. Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) was one of the most important Romanian philosophers, a poet, playwright and novelist, says Dr. Stan.
In addition to supervising students, conducting relevant research, and advising the university on its gender policy, Dr. Stan will impart her knowledge as Editor-in-Chief of two prestigious peer-reviewed academic journals, Women’s Studies International Forum (published by Elsevier) as well as East European Politics and Societies (which appears with Sage). Meanwhile she continues her research on transitional justice for competing pasts, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) with a five-year grant.
Dr. Stan says the ERA Chair is a great honour for her and she is glad that her work is recognized at that level.
