The Romanian Program and Central European Collaborative have brought to ASU
numerous Romanian scholars and dignitaries such as:

  • His Excellence, (former) Romanian Ambassador to U.S. Sorin Dumitru Ducaru (2006)
  • Consul Catalin Ghenea (2005; 2007)
  • Playwright, poet and journalist Matei Visniec, voice of Paris-based Radio France Internationale (2007; 2008)
  • Stephen Fischer-Galati, Professor Emeritus at University of Colorado (2005)
  • A theatre group of actors and administrators from the National Theatre and the Puck Puppet Theatre of Cluj-Napoca, Romania led by director Mona Chirila (2001; 2005; 2007; 2008)
  • Poet Carmen Firan (2000; 2002)
  • Historian Dinu Giurescu, currently the director of the Peasant Museum in Bucharest (2005)
  • Prominent dissident writer Augustin Buzura who was until recently the President of the Cultural Foundation and the Romanian Institute of Culture in Bucharest (2000; 2002)
  • Professor Marius Jucan, currently Associate Dean of Faculty of the European Studies Program at Babes-Bolyai University and the Chair of the American Studies Deparment (2000)
  • Nicolae Paun, professor of contemporary history and the former Dean of European Studies at the Babes-Bolyai University (2000)
  • Professor Andrei Marga, rector of the Babes Bolyai University of Romania (1999; 2000)
  • Rodica Mihaila, Professor of Comparative Literature and American Studies at the University of Bucharest and the Director of Romanian American Studies (2007)
  • Adina Ciugureanu, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Dean, Ovidius University, Romania (2007)
  • Poet and translator Adrian Sahlean (2008)