Elena Dragomir

Contact: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Science History, Snellmaninkatu 14 A, Helsinki, 00014, Finlanda; tel. (004) 0724501139, e-mail: dragomir_elena2005@yahoo.com ; elena.dragomir@helsinki.fi 

Research fields: Cold War, Romania during the communist period, Romania’s foreign policy during the communist period, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe

Language skills: Romania (mother tongue), English (fluent)

Current positions:

ü      Editorial secretary of Valahian Journal of Historical Studies (included in the CEEOL database)

ü      Member of the Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies

ü      Editorial Secretary of Revista Romana pentru Studii Baltice si Nordice;

ü      Associated Member of the “Grigore Gafencu” Research Center for the History of International Relations;

ü      Associated Member of The Finnish Graduate School for Russian and East European Studies, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

 

Higher Education:

Ø      2005: Master’s diploma in history, “Valahia” University of Targoviste, Romania, Faculty of Humanities, Specialty: The Unity of the European History

Ø      2004: University degree in History-Archeology, “Valahia” University of Targoviste, Faculty of Humanities, Department of History

Ø      2007-2011: PhD candidate, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Social Science History, Major subject Political History

Ø      2004: BA in History and Archaeology from “Valahia” University of Târgoviste, Faculty of Humanities (final studies performance: 8.82)

 

Grants:

-          Member of the research team:

o        Europa dintr-o perspectiva periferica: o viziune central-europeana (secolele al XIX-lea - al XX-lea), financed by CNCSIS (The Romanian National Research Council) in 2005-2007 (87.000 RON)

Stipends:

Ø      University of Helsinki, March-November 2008, scholarship by The Centre For Internetional Mobility (CIMO)

Ø       University of Helsinki, September 2008-May 2009, scholarship by The “Dinu Patriciu” Foundation

Ø        University of Helsinki, September 2009-May 2010, scholarship by The “Dinu Patriciu” Foundation

 

Selected Books:

Ø      România si sistemele de Securitate în Europa, 1919-1975, Editura Universitatii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iasi, 2009 (407pp.); co-author, ISBN 978-973-703-444-1

Ø      Europe as viewed from the margins, I, Cetatea de Scaun, Targoviste, 2006 (190pp.); co-author; ISBN 973-7925-92-0; 978-973-7925-92-3

Ø      Europe as viewed from the margins, II, Cetatea de Scaun, Targoviste, 2007 (145pp.); co-author; ISBN 978-973-8966-40-6

 

Selected Articles:

-          The construction of the Romanian communist national identity during Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej’s regime, in TENDENCIAS, Revista de Estudios Internacionales, Guadalajara, Mexico, No. 6/February 2009, pp.130-153, ISSN 1870-9958.

-          Superpower détente as threat for ‘minor’ powers. Romanian perceptions of superpower détente during the 1970s, in “Political Thought”, Anul 7, nr 27, Skopje, Macedonia, 2009, pp. 47-62, ISSN: 1409-9853.

-          To be or to become 'European'? 'Westernazing' narratives in post-Cold War Finland, în Revista Româna pentru Studii Baltice si Nordice, No. 1/2009, pp. 33-52, ISSN2067-1725.

-          Reshaping foreign policy. Romania and Finland’s cases in the context of the CSCE’s opening. A comparative analysis, in “Valahian Journal of Historical Studies”, Targoviste: Cetatea de Scaun, no 10/2008 ISSN 1584-2525.

-          Propaganda antislava în timpul regimului Antonescu in “Romanoslavica”, XLII, Editura Universitatii Bucuresti, 2007, pp.202-220, ISBN 0557-272X.

-          Religious freedoms in communist Romania, in “Political Thought”, Anul 6, nr 21, Skopje, Macedonia, 2007, pp. 31-38, ISSN: 1409-9853.

-          Romania’s perception of Finland’s participation in CSCE, in Annales d’Université ”Valahia” Târgoviste, Section d’Archéologie et d’Histoire, Tome X, Nr. 2/2008, pp. 101-110, ISSN 1584-1855.

-          Détente and the events from Czechoslovakia, 1968, in “Analele Universitatii "Valahia" din Târgoviste”, 2006-2007, pp.317-328, ISSN 1584-1855.