Stella Ghervas is Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies. Her major book, Réinventer la tradition: Alexandre Stourdza et l’Europe de la Sainte-Alliance, was awarded the Guizot Prize of the Académie Française in 2009. She is currently completing a book entitled Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union for Harvard University Press. In parallel, she is working on a transnational history of the Black Sea region, from the Russian expansion in the eighteenth century to the present day.