Ruxandra Paul

Ruxandra Paul is a Ph.D. candidate in the Government Department at Harvard University and a Graduate Fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. Her dissertation examines the political consequences of contemporary transnational migrations in the enlarging European Union. The project analyzes how trans-state labor mobilities transform political systems, influence political behaviors and reshape the relationship between sending states and their citizens. The dissertation committee consists of three Harvard faculty members: Professors Grzegorz Ekiert, Peter Hall and Daniel Ziblatt.

As a Chateaubriand Fellow of the French government, Paul spent the academic year 2009-2010 at Sciences Po, Paris (Centre d'Études et de Recherches Internationales). Her field research in Italy, Romania and Poland has been supported by a Krupp Foundation grant of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, as well as by the Weatherhead Center. An Associate of the Center for European Studies, Paul received her MA from Harvard in 2008. She is a proud graduate of Williams College (summa cum laude, with highest honors in Political Science) where she majored in International Relations and French Language and Literature. She spent a year at Oxford University, researching the effects of EU enlargement on European integration.

At Harvard, Paul served as Vice-President and At-Large Representative for Social Sciences on the Graduate Student Council. She is a recipient of the Certificate of Excellence in Teaching awarded by Harvard's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. She publishes a weekly column ("Vederi din America") from her vantage point as expert-expat extraordinaire for one of the leading Romanian newspapers.

For a full biography and CV, check out the CV page on this website.