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Edited Special Issue Kristen Ghodsee, Lavinia Stan and Elaine Weiner. “Compliance without Commitment?: The EU’s Gender Equality Agenda in Eastern Europe,” Women’s Studies International Forum, vol. 33, no. 1 (2010), 70 pages. Book-length Report Lavinia Stan. National Report on Romania, part of the “How the memory of crimes committed by totalitarian regimes is dealt with in the member states” project, commissioned by the Direction D: Fundamental Rights and Citizenship of the Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security of the European Commission, 2009, 160 pages. Recent Chapters in Books Lavinia Stan, “Conclusion: Memory, Courts and Justice in Transition,” in Transitional Justice in Post-Dictatorial and Post-Conflict Societies, ed. by Raluca Grosescu and Agata Fijalkowski (London: Intersentia, 2015). Lavinia Stan, “Women as Anticommunist Dissidents and Secret Police Collaborators,” in Genre and the (Post)Communist Woman, ed. by Florentina Andreescu and Michael Shapiro (London: Routledge, 2014). pp. 80-97. Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, “The Orthodox Churches and Democratization in Romania and Bulgaria,” in Religion and Politics in Post-Socialist Central and Southeastern Europe, ed. by Sabrina Ramet (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 263-295. Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, “The Romanian Orthodox Church,” in Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Lucian Leustean (London: Routledge, 2014), pp. 94-113. Lavinia Stan, “Civil Society and Post-communist Transitional Justice in Romania,” in Transitional Justice and Civil Society in the Balkans, ed. by Olivera Simic and Zala Volcic (New York: Springer, 2013), pp. 17-31. Lavinia Stan, “Neither Forgiving, Nor Punishing?: Transitional Justice in Romania,” in After Oppression: Transitional Justice and Democratic Consolidation: Lessons from Eastern Europe and Latin America, ed. by Vesselin Popovski and Monica Serrano (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2012), pp. 365-388. Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, “The Orthodox Church and the Government,” in Romania under Basescu: Aspirations, Achievements, and Frustrations during His First Presidential Term, ed. by Ronald King and Paul Sum (Lexington Books, 2010). Lavinia Stan, “Romania: In the Shadow of the Past,” in Central and Southeastern Europe since 1989, ed. by Sabrina P. Ramet (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010). Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, “Religious Freedom in the Expanded Europe,” in Freedom of Religion, ed. by William Sweet (Bangalore, India: Dharmaram Publications, 2010), pp. 252-267. Lavinia Stan, “Memorie, dreptate, uitare: o radiografie a decomunizarii romanesti” (Memory, Justice, Forgetting: A Scorecard of Romanian Transitional Justice), in Romania dupa douazeci de ani (Romania 20 Years after the Collapse of the Communist Regime), ed. by Vasile Boari, Natalia Vlas and Radu Murea (Iasi: Editura Institutului European, 2010), volume 1, pp. 71-100. Recent Articles Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea, “Much Contest, Little Censure: Motions in the Romanian Parliament (1989-2008),” Europe-Asia Studies, 66, no. 1 (2014), pp. 1629-1648. Lavinia Stan and Razvan Zaharia, “Romania,” European Journal of Political Research, 53, no. 7 (2014). Lavinia Stan, “Romania,” European Journal of Political Research, 52, no. 7 (2013), pp. 197-207. Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, “The Romanian Orthodox Church: From Nation-Building Actor to State Partner,” Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte, 25, no. 2 (2012), pp. 401-417. Lavinia Stan, “Reckoning with the Communist Past in Romania: A Scorecard,” Europe-Asia Studies, 65, no. 1 (2013), pp. 1-20. Lavinia Stan and Razvan Zaharia, “Romania,” European Journal of Political Reseach, 51, no. 7 (2012), pp. 268-278. Lavinia Stan, “Witch-Hunt or Moral Rebirth? Romanian Parliamentary Debates on Lustration,” East European Politics and Societies, 26, no. 2 (2012), pp. 274-295. Lavinia Stan, “Vigilante Justice in Post-Communist Europe,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 44, no. 4 (2011), pp. 319-327. Lavinia Stan and Razvan Zaharia, “Romania,” European Journal of Political Research, 49, no. 7 (2010), pp. 1139-1153. Lavinia Stan and Lucian Turcescu, “The Romanian Orthodox Church and Democratization: Twenty Years Later,” International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, vol. 10, nos. 2-3 (May-August 2010), pp. 144-159. Lavinia Stan, “Eastern Christian Orthodox Views on the Body and Sexuality,” Women’s Studies International Forum, vol. 33, no. 1 (2010), 25 pages. Review Articles Lavinia Stan, “Paradoxes of Post-Communist Lustration,” review of Monika Nalepa, Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), in International Studies Review, in press. Lavinia Stan, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being an East European Intellectual,” Government and Opposition, vol. 35, no. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 265-271.