Francis Xavier University. She has published extensively in the areas of religion and politics, and transitional justice in post-communist countries. Most of Dr. Stan's work relates to Romania, but she has also written on Poland, Hungary and the former Soviet Union republics. A graduate of the University of Toronto and a political scientist by training, she is co-editor for Europe for the Women’s Studies International Forum, a reviewer for Choice, past chair of the Wildavsky Award Committee of the Religion and Politics section of the American Political Science Association, past collaborator with the East European Constitutional Review, and an expert with Directorate-General of Justice, Freedom and Security of the European Commission.