Petru NEGURA held an M.ph. (D.E.A.) and Ph.D. in Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He authored a book (Ni h辿ros, ni tra樽tres. Les 辿crivains moldaves face au pouvoir sovi辿tique sous Staline, Paris, LHarmattan, 2009). Petru Negura is lecturer at the State Pedagogical University Ion Creanga and he was invited scholar / lecturer at the Ecole Doctorale en Sciences Sociales of Bucharest (EDSS, within the University of Bucharest), at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of Paris (EHESS), and University of California, Berkeley.