Academic title: Senior University Lecturer

CV | Alexandra Oprea  holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Bucharest and in Sociology from EHESS, Paris. She is currently a Senior University Lecturer at the University of Bucharest’s Department of Political Science and a member of the research center Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’études sur les réflexivités – Fonds Yan Thomas (LIER-FYT, EHESS). Her research primarily focuses on the phenomenon of corruption in Romania before and after 1989, as well as the transregional artistic memory of communism.  She is Managing Editor at Studia Politica. Romanian Political Science Review.

Research fields: Political Sociology; Corruption/Anticorruption in democratic and socialist soieties; Postcomunist Romanian Society; Political Scandals.

Courses: SPF; SPR; SSL; MPE

Latest publications:

• “A Transnational Approach to Anti-Corruption in Socialist Romania (1971–1989)”(Études Balkaniques, 2024)
• “Behind Anti-Corruption: The Transformations of Society-An Investigation into the Politicization of ‘Illegal Personal Enrichment’ in Romania”(Frontiers in Political Science, 2024)
• „Statul, victimă a coruției? Discursul anticorupție în ultima fază a regimului comunist din România” in Dalia Bathory, Stefan Bosomitu, Luciana Jinga (eds.), Construcții și deconstrucții de-a lungul unui secol. Istoriile partidului comunist. Anuarul IICCMER, nr. XVI, Polirom, Iasi, 2021, pp. 233-253
• “Denouncing Corruption Through Visual Means: Civil Society Initiatives in Post-Communist Romania”(Online Journal Modeling, 2020).

Topics for BA/MA coordination:  (1) Political Sociology; (2) Corruption/Anticorruption in democratic and socialist societies; (3) Post-communist Romanian society; (4) Political scandals.

Office hours: Wednesday, 14:30–16:30, by prior appointment via email.

E-mail: oprea.alexandra@fspub.unibuc.ro