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 héros, ni traîtres. Les écrivains moldaves face au pouvoir soviétique sous Staline, Paris, L’Harmattan, 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.