Anca Maria Șincan

Dr. Anca Șincan a researcher at the Gheorghe Sincai Institute of the Romanian Academy, defended a doctoral dissertation at Central European University in Budapest with a thesis on the relationship between state and church in communist Romania. She had fellowships at the University of Padova, Oxford University, Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, and New Europe College, Bucharest. She was visiting lecturer at Petru Maior University (Romania) where she taught classes on Religion in International Relations and Theory and Methods in Contemporary History Research, guest lecturer at Central European University, Hungary (2014) teaching on the Orthodox Church and the modern state in Eastern Europe. Her research interests revolve around recent comparative history of East Central Europe, religious studies/ church history. She is currently co-editing an issue of East Central Europe with Ioana Macrea Toma on In-betweeners, "collaborators" with the Secret police.