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Delia Dumitrescu

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Political Science, The Ohio State University

Mail: 2140 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall, Columbus OH 43210

Dumitrescu.5 [at] polisci.osu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Political Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (Defended August 17, 2009).

Dissertation: Spatial Visual Communications in Election Campaigns: Political Posters Strategies in Two

Democracies

Committee: Anthony Mughan (advisor), Tom Nelson, Paul Allen Beck, Michael Lewis-Beck

M.A. in Political Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (2006).

Major in Comparative Politics, Minor in Political Psychology. GPA 3.88

B.A. in Political Science, University of Bucharest, Romania (2003).

Highest GPA of graduating class

Certificat, Faculté de Sciences Sociales, Politiques et Économiques, Université Libre de Bruxelles (2003).

Senior year visiting student. GPA 17/20.

PUBLICATIONS

Dumitrescu, Delia. 2009. “Know Me, Love Me, Fear Me: The Anatomy of Poster Design. Candidate Posters in the 2007 French Legislative Elections”. Political Communication, forthcoming.

Dumitrescu, Delia, and Anthony Mughan. 2010. “Mass Media and Democratic Politics”. In The Handbook of Politics, State and Civil Society in Global Perspective, ed. Kevin T. Leicht and J. Craig Jenkins. New York: Springer, forthcoming.

PRESENTATIONS

“This is My Territory! Election Posters as Signals of Campaign Credibility. The case of France and Belgium”.

Paper scheduled to be presented at the ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, Germany, September 10, 2009.

Poster scheduled to be presented Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, ON, September 5, 2009.

“Nuts and Bolts of Online Surveys” (ppt version here)

Ohio State University, Program in Statistics and Methodology (PRISM), Brownbag Series, April 24, 2009.

“Election Poster Campaigns as Signals of Candidate Credibility: A Game Theoretical Model”.

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2009.

“This is my territory! Election Posters and Signaling. The Case of France”.

Poster presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting, New York, February 2009.

“Love Me or… Fear Me? A Content Analysis of Candidate Posters in the 2007 French Legislative Election”.

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2008.

“(How) Do Political Poster Campaigns Affect Viewers? An Experimental Approach to Poster Effects”.

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2007.

TEACHING

As Graduate Student Instructor at the Ohio State University:

Political Science 535: Western European Politics (Winter 2009, Spring 2009)
Political Science 597.02: Elections and Campaigns in Established Democracies (Fall 2007, Winter 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2008)

As Teaching Assistant:

Political Science 503: Public Opinion (Professor Luke Keele, Spring 2006)

RESEARCH

Online survey of French and Belgian party members about poster campaign practices (November 2008 March 2009)

N=236 in France (31% response rate)
N=168 in francophone Belgium (31% response rate)

Field research on political poster campaigns in France and Belgium (September 2006-July 2007)

Interviews with French and Belgian party officials
Creation of a visual poster database from the 2007 French legislative elections (250+ posters)
Archive data collection: poster campaigns expenditures in the 1997 French legislative elections

“How Do Election Posters Influence Voters?” Field study conducted in two Paris neighborhoods, examining the effects of candidate election posters on voters’ attitudes and behavior in the context of the 2007 French legislative elections (May 2007).

Research assistant for Professor Anthony Mughan, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University (2004-2007).

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

ECPR General Conference Travel Grant (2009).

Office of International Affairs International Research Travel Grant, The Ohio State University (2007).

Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship, The Ohio State University (2006).

Mershon Center Graduate Student Research Grant, Mershon Center, The Ohio State University (2006).

University Fellowship, The Ohio State University (2003/2004).

Bourse de Formation Initiale, Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (French Government) (2002/2003).

ERASMUS Scholarship (European Union Scholarship Program), declined (2002).

Fellowship for the European Research Center (CEDRE) Summer University (Rennes, France) and the “Jean Monnet” European Research Center Summer University (Grenoble, France), Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (2001).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE

Journal Reviewer, Social Influence.

Member, American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, International Studies Association.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Summer University on European Union Institutions, European Research Center (CEDRE), Rennes, France September 3-15, 2001.

Summer University on European Integration, “Jean Monnet” European Research Center, Grenoble, France, September 17-28, 2001.

Intern, United Nations Information Center, Bucharest, Romania (2000/2001).

LANGUAGES

Fluent: French, English, Italian

Beginner: German, Spanish

Native: Romanian

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