Curriculum Vitae
Education
February 2009 – June 2016
PhD in Social Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Martin Luther University Halle - Wittenberg, Halle/ Saale, Germany (defended, Magna cum laude).
October 2008 – February 2009
Exchange student, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
October 2007 – February 2009
MA in Social Anthropology, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania.
October 2003 – July 2007
BA in Sociology, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania.
Professional Activities / Teaching
January 2015 – Present
Postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project “Directions in religious pluralism in Europe: Examining grassroots mobilisations in the shadow of European Court of Human Rights religious freedom jurisprudence”, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens, Greece. Activity: Conducting fieldwork for the Romanian national case-study.
October 2012 – July 2013
Associate lecturer at the Seminar for Ethnology, Faculty of Philosophy I, Martin Luther University Halle – Wittenberg, Halle/ Saale, Germany. Activity: Designing and teaching undergraduate seminars.
February 2008 – December 2008
Junior researcher at the Center for Research on Culture, Bucharest, Romania. Activity: Conducting qualitative sociological research for the Center’s research projects.
November 2007 – October 2008
Assistant researcher at the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration. Activity: Conducting interviews in the research project “Changing Political Identities in Two Globalizing Societies” (University of Connecticut, the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration and the University of Kerala).
July 2005 – August 2008
Research coordinator at the Media Monitoring Agency, Bucharest, Romania. Activity: Designing and conducting media content analyses and conducting sociological research for the analysis of the level of media literacy in Romania.
Grants / Scholarships
2009
Ph.D. Stipend from the Volkswagen Foundation and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.
2008
Socrates-Erasmus Scholarship from the National School of Political Studies and Public Administration.
Fieldwork
July 2009 – November 2010
Doctoral fieldwork in Dobruja, Romania.
January 2015 – Present
Postdoctoral fieldwork in Bucharest and other localities in Romania.
Presentations at Conferences
June 2016
“Contesting the place of religion in education in post-communist Romania: Strategic uses of the ECtHR and its case-law” at the Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions: Relocating Religion, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
April 2016
“In search of full recognition: national regulations, ECtHR case-law, and the recognition of religious groups in post-socialist Romania” at the International Conference Religions and Human Rights, University of Padua, Padua, Italy (with Liviu Andreescu).
December 2012
“Care migration and reframing the „other“. Explorations from rural Romania” at the International Conference Rethinking Care: Anthropological Perspectives on Life Courses, Kin-Work and their Trans-Local Entanglements, IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany (with Tatjana Thelen).
July 2012
“Can there be a standard translation of standards? An analysis of social welfare provision in rural Romania” at the 12th EASA Biennial Conference: Uncertainty and Disquiet, Université Paris X, Nanterre, France.
July 2012
“Seeing like a local, acting as the state: A case study of social policy implementation in a Romanian rural community” at the 7th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis: Understanding the Drama of Democracy. Policy Work, Power and Transformation, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
March 2012
“Bureaucratic Flexibility and the Translation of Neoliberal Policies: Moralities and Public Welfare in Rural Romania” at the International Conference The New Public Good: Affects and Techniques of Flexible Bureaucracies, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge, UK (with Stefan Dorondel).
July 2011
“Imagining the local state and social security practices in rural Romania” at the International Conference Local State and Social Security: Negotiating Deservingness and Avenues to Resources in Rural Areas, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/ Saale, Germany (with Stefan Dorondel).
Membership in Professional Associations
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
Languages
Romanian (native)
English (proficient)
French (advanced)
German (advanced)
Russian (beginner)