Sociology Faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh - Dr. Monica Ciobanu

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Sociology Faculty - Dr. Monica Ciobanu

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice

Dr. Monica Ciobanu recently received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her doctoral dissertation was titled "Problems of Political Legitimacy and Democratic Consolidation in Post-Communism: the Case of Romania in Comparative Perspective". As a graduate student she participated in international seminars on democratization in Hungary and Poland and she has been affiliated with the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies at the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research. Before she came to SUNY Plattsburgh Dr. Ciobanu had been teaching courses in the areas of social theory, international criminal justice, and gender at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of City University of New York.

Education

• Ph.D. in Sociology, Graduate Faculty for Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research, 2005.
• M.A. in Gender Studies, Graduate Faculty for Political and Social Science at the New School for Social Research, 1998.
• B.A. in Sociology, Faculty of Sociology at the University of Bucharest, Romania, 1993.

Teaching Areas

• Political Sociology
• Sociology of Law
• International Criminal Justice

Research Areas

• Problems of democracy including transitions to democracy, elections, party systems, civil society.
  Globalization and human rights.
• Comparative politics.

Publications

• "Gender Issues in International Criminal Justice" (with Mangai Natarajan). Chapter 9 in Introduction to International Criminal Justice, McGraw Hill, 2005. Ed. by Mangai Natarajan.
• "2004 Romanian Elections: A Test for Democratic Consolidation?" (with Michael Shafir). RFE/RL East European Perspectives (April 2005, Vol. 7, Number 3).
• "Political Parties in Romania: A Pre-Electoral Analysis", in Analysis of Current Events, Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2004 (Published by Slavic & East European Studies, Baylor University, Texas).
• "Problems of Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe". RFE/RL East European Perspectives (August 2003, Vol. 5, Nos. 16 & 17).
• Contribution to Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, ed. by Gary L. Anderson & Kathryn G. Herr, Sage (forthcoming 2006). Entries on civil society and the Armenian genocide.

Contact Dr. Monica Ciobanu

Office: Redcay Hall 235
Phone: (518) 564-3319
E-mail: monica.ciobanu@plattsburgh.edu