Meet Our Lecturers

1. Publications

(all published work signed Dungaciu)
– Dungaciu, S. (2003) Georg Simmel and the Sociology of Modernity: Elements for
a social theory of postmodernity. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Dacia.
– Dungaciu, S. (2000) Introduction to Sociology. Bucharest: Editura Fundației
România de Mâine. 2nd edn (2002).
– Dungaciu, S. (2005) ‘Political and societal security’, in Croft, S. (ed.) Security
Studies. Bucharest: British Council / Cavaliotti.
– Dungaciu, S. (2003) ‘European studies in Romania in the context of European
integration’, in Musteață, S. (ed.) Culture, History and Education in South-Eastern
Europe: Papers of the 7th International Conference of the National Association of
Young Historians of Moldova. Chișinău: ARC.
– Dungaciu, S. (2003) ‘Social sciences and the new definition of security.
Suggestions for a new perspective on world conflicts’, in Geopolitics of the
European Integration. Bucharest: Centre for Geopolitics and Visual Anthropology
/ Editura Universității.
– Dungaciu, S. (2003) ‘Avatars of the globalisation theory in the Balkans. Possible
and/or efficient uses of the instruments of analysis’, in Geopolitics of the
European Integration. Bucharest: Centre for Geopolitics and Visual Anthropology
/ Editura Universității.
– Dungaciu, S. (2002) ‘Cultural and ethnic identities in the process of globalization
and regionalization of the Balkans. Theoretical instruments of analysis’, in
Mitrović, L., Đorđević, D. and Todorović, D. (eds.) Cultural and Ethnic Identities in
the Process of Globalization and Regionalization of the Balkans. Niš: YUNIR /
Punta.
– Dungaciu, S. (2001) ‘Modern world rationality in the mirror of sociology’, in
Constantinescu, C. (coord.) Sociology, Ethics and Social Policy. Pitești: Editura
Universității din Pitești.

2. Conferences

– Dungaciu, S. (2005) ‘EU, New Europe and Wider Europe: Tango for Three or
Bermuda Triangle?’, paper presented at the Sixth Mediterranean Social and
Political Research Meeting of the Mediterranean Programme of the Robert
Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute,
Montecatini Terme, 16–19 March.
– Dungaciu, S. (2004) ‘Processes of decentralization in Eastern Europe. The Case
of Romania’, paper presented at the Hurst Seminar on Reform and Democracy in
Local Government of Countries in Transformation, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel, 23–24 May.
– Dungaciu, S. (2003) ‘Europe beyond Its Myths? The New Antisemitism in the Old
and New Europe’, paper presented at the conference Nationalist Myths and
Modern Media, Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, 15–17
October.

– Dungaciu, S. (2003) ‘European Studies and European Integration: The Case of
Romania’, paper presented at the 7th International Conference of the National
Association of Young Historians of Moldova, Culture, History and Education in
South-Eastern Europe, Chișinău, 10–13 April.
– Dungaciu, S. (2002) ‘Anti-Semitism, fascism and the survival of the Jews: the
paradoxes of the Romanian case. For a sociology of the Jewish communities in
South-Eastern Europe’, paper presented at the international conference Jews
and Anti-Semitism in the Balkans, Bled, Slovenia, 21–23 October.
– Dungaciu, S. (2001) ‘Social sciences and the new definition of security.
Suggestions for a new perspective on world conflicts’, paper presented at the
Second SRSP Annual Conference, Timișoara, Romania, 4–7 October.
– Dungaciu, S. (2001) ‘The Balkans in the world-system. An IR perspective’,
contributed paper presented at the 25th Anniversary Conference of the Fernand
Braudel Center, Binghamton University, Binghamton, USA, 2–3 November.
– Dungaciu, S. (2001) ‘Uses, misuses and abuses of the concept of globalisation in
the Balkans’, paper presented at the conference Understanding the Balkans –
The Balkans and Globalisation, Contemporary Art Center, Skopje, North
Macedonia, 1–2 December.

3. Key Projects and Research

– Romanian National Center for Higher Education Scientific Research – project
“Mixed Ethno-religious Communities in Western Balkans. Identity Definitions and
Post-Conflict Confidence Building. North-Western Macedonia Case Study”, 2002-
2003
– Visiting Research Associate at the Fernand Braudel Center, State University of
New York (SUNY), Binghamton, USA, July 2001-Dec 2001 – combined grant of
the University of Bucharest and the Fernand Braudel Center
– Ph.D. Documentation Fellowship at the Department of Social Sciences, Anglia
Polytechnic University, Cambridge, Great Britain, December 1999-April 2000.
– World Bank Fellowship at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen,
Vienna, Austria April-June 1999.
– Greek Government Fellowship (academic exchange) at the University of Athens,
Faculty of Theology – Department of Social Theology, October 1997-June 1998.
– Associate researcher in the project “Geopolitics of the European Integration”, of
the Center for Geopolitics and Visual Anthropology of the University of Bucharest
– World Bank Grant, 2000-2002.
– “Witnesses of the Holocaust” oral history research project sponsored by the
USHMM – area coordinator for the Republic of Moldova, 2004.
– Fellow of the 2003 Solomon Asch Summer Institute for the Study of Ethnopolitical
Conflict, University of Pennsylvania (2 June – 9 August).
– Completion of the course in “Teaching an European Security Module to students
of European Studies”, organised by the British Council in Bucharest (course
director Prof. Stuart Croft), March, July 2002.

4. Publications in Professional Journals

– Dungaciu, S. (2005) ‘New dimensions of security: epistemological and practical
relevance’, Romanian Journal of European Studies, 1(5).
– Dungaciu, S. (2004) ‘Making sense of the New Security Dimensions or The
Quest for Security Within and Beyond State Borders’, Romanian Review of
Political Sciences and International Relations, Vol. I(1), pp. 89–106.
– Dungaciu, S. (2001) ‘Political theory, social policy, and the feminist challenge’,
Revue de Théorie Sociale, no. 2.
– Dungaciu, S. (2001) ‘Between “SEE” and the “Balkans”: from political to
theoretical stakes, and back’, România socială. Revistă de cultură socială şi
politică, no. 3–4, pp. 22–25.
– Dungaciu, S. (2000) ‘Georg Simmel between modernity and postmodernity.
Theoretical and methodological considerations’, Revue Roumaine de Théorie
Sociale, no. 3, pp. 35–47.
– Dungaciu, S. (2000) ‘Georg Simmel: Freedom and Individual’, Revista de Teorie
Socială, no. 2, pp. 91–99. (Translated from German; with presentation notes.)
– Dungaciu, S. (2000) ‘Sociology and culture in the German area within the 19th
century’, Analele Universităţii “Spiru Haret”, Seria Sociologie-Psihologie, no. 1,
pp. 139–144.