USF St Pete - ULIM Spring 2022 Research Collaboration: Partner Spotlight: LARISA PATLIS

We are so pleased to be partnering with law students at ULIM this semester!

And we are especially grateful to Larisa Patlis for helping us to connect with the Law Faculty at ULIM in preparation for our collaboration on this joint research project.  Dr. McLauchlan had the good fortune to collaborate with Ms. Patlis when she was teaching at ULIM while on a Fulbright in 2010 -and they have been working together on projects ever since. One of the highlights was welcoming Ms. Patlis to USF St Petersburg as a Carnegie Fellow in 2012.

On this blog we will feature the bios of all program coordinators. 

Next up -- Prof. Elena Margineanu of the Law Faculty -- who will be recruiting and supervising the ULIM law students.

We are also appreciative of all of the efforts of the Vice Rector for International Cooperation Valentina Ciumacenco on this and many other international programs at ULIM.

 

 

Larisa Patlis, ULIM

Larisa Patlis currently is interim director in the Library and Information Science Department at Free International University of Moldova (ULIM) and a lecturer in the Department of International Relations, Political Science and Journalism ULIM, where she received her licentiate diploma and M.A. in International Relations (European Studies) in 2005 and 2006, respectively. She teaches courses in International Relations. She has conducted research and professional development visits in Poland (2008, 2009, 2013), Hungary (2009), Austria (2010), Lithuania (2010), Turkey (2011), Ukraine (2012) USA (2012/13), Georgia (2016), Germany (2018).  Larisa Patlis was a Carnegie Fellow in the Department of History and Politics and the Bishop Center for Ethical Leadership and Civic Engagement at USFSP (for Fall semester 2012), conducting a research on Devolutionary Trends in Moldova: the Case of Gagauz Yeri. In 2016 Larisa became a winner of the Carnegie Scholar Publication Program 2016 competition for alumni of the CRFP.

Research interests include the following: devolution, geopolitics of borders, Eastern Partnership, Turkey-EU relationship and political Islam in Turkey. Her Ph.D. research focuses on devolution phenomenon, specifically on devolution in the Republic of Moldova.

 

For more about Dr. McLauchlan's Fulbright at ULIM, see her blog http://jainmoldova.blogspot.com/