Andrada Costoiu
Ph.D. candidate (ABD)
B.A. International Relations, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
B.A. Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
E-Mail: acosto1@uic.edu
Fields of Interest:
My current research is centered on the integration of the ethnic minorities into their host societies and also on the relationship between immigration and international security. I am focusing on the modes of integration of the persons uprooted by communal ethnic conflict or mandatory repatriation and of the refuges of coercive government politics or war into their receiving countries.
I am also interested in the differences in the immigration policies between different regime types (authoritarian regimes, developed and transitional democracies) and in the challenges the movement of persons across borders (in the form of legal, illegal and forced migration) can bring for the international security.
Selected Conference Papers:
"Immigration and international terrorism," Midwest Political Science Association, (Forthcoming: April 2008), Chicago, IL, USA"International Terrorism and Trade: A Simultaneous Equation Model," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 20-23, 2006.
"Security Challenges in the Post 9/11 Era." Panel Discussant at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 20-23, 2006.
Selected Activities and Honors:
Doris Graber Award, August 2002Professional experience and affiliations:
Junior Specialist, Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, University of California Irvine, Fall 2008
Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago, Intro to Comparative Politics and International Relations, August 2002- May 2007
Research Assistant, Math Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002
Data Analyst, Romanian Foreign Trade Institute- Bucharest, 1997-2000
AIESEC Romania (The International Association of Students in Economy-Romania), founding member