Research Interests
Waterscapes, infrastructures, post-Soviet, materiality, temporality
Research Area(s)
Moldovia, Eastern Europe
Profil
I joined the Department ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance’ as a PhD candidate in October 2023. My research investigates human-water entanglements in rural Moldova and explores the ways in which the flow of water across political, economic, technological, and spiritual landscapes shapes sociality. Here, I draw on the heterogenous materialities of water infrastructures to highlight the interplay between human and non-human agencies in the waterscape.
My PhD project builds on research I conducted for my MA thesis at Leipzig University which explored the practices and socio-technical bricolages through which rural Moldovans secure access to potable water, as well as the ways in which they evaluate and negotiate the quality of water in everyday life. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences at University College Maastricht, with a disciplinary focus in Sociology and Anthropology.
As a Junior Teaching Fellow at University College Maastricht, I gained extensive experience in teaching and designing undergraduate courses in the fields of sociology, philosophy, and anthropology, as well as in qualitative research methodologies.