Razvan Dumitru
Curriculum Vitae


Razvan Dumitru

Curriculum Vitae

Current Project
Name: Razvan Dumitru

Born: 31st of August 1978, Bucharest, Romania

E-mail: r.dumitru at ucl.ac.uk
            razvan_dumi at yahoo.com

Present Position: MPhil/PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, University College London.


Academic Training

09/2005 - Present MPhil/PhD in Social Anthropology, University College London, UK.
09/2004 - 07/2005 MA in History, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
[Dissertation not defended]
09/2003 - 06/2004 MA in Social Anthropology & Sociology,
Central European University Budapest, Hungary
09/2002 - 06/2003 MA in Cultural Anthropology at National School of Political Science
and Public Administration (SNSPA), Bucharest, Romania.
[Dissertation not defended]
09/1998 - 06/2002 BA in Sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania.
09/2001 - 12/2001 Erasmus Exchange Student, Umea University, Sweden.

Professional Experience

10/2005 - 07/2006 Library Assistant, University College London, United Kingdom.
09/2004 - 06/2005 Teaching Assistant, History, Society and Culture 101 & 102, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
09/2002 - 09/2003 Assistant Researcher at The Institute for the Quality of Life (ICCV), Romanian Academy.

Scholarships and Awards

09/2006 - 12/2007 Marie Curie Doctoral Fellowship for Social Anthropology.
09/2005 - 09/2008 Overseas Research Scholarship at University College London for MPhil/PhD
09/2004 - 06/2005 Study Scholarship, Sabanci University, Istanbul.
09/2003 - 06/2004 Study Scholarship, Central European University, Budapest.
05/2001 First Prize for the Research Project "Life Strategies in the Context of De-industrialization in the City of Resita" at the Communication Session of the Sociology Students Society at Bucharest University.

Summer Schools / Conferences

07/2004 The first Summer Session of 3-year Project: Nationalism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Social Sciences: Challenges for Research and Teaching, Faculty of Sociology, International Centre for Comparative and Institutional Research. Sankt Petersburg State University.
04/2003 Sofia University. Paper presentation: "Vlaski Language and Vlasii Identity".
05/2002 SEESSA (South East European Sociology Students Association) Summer School and General Session for the foundation of SEESSA, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Paper Presentation: "The Distinction between universal and global history".

05/2001 SSSUB (Sociology Students Society from Bucharest University) Communication Session.
11/2000 Communication Session of the Social Observatory, Bucharest University. Presentation of the research paper: "The Neighbourhoods and the Social Capital".

Research Projects

10/2005 - 11/2005 Building up a database for Anthropology Department of University College London of London Based NGOs willing to offer internships for graduate students.

05/2002 - 03/2003 "The Self-Identification of the Bulgarian Ethnic Minority in Romania and the Romanian Ethnic Minority (Vlasii) in Bulgaria in the Context of Euro-integration" Open Society Foundation, Sofia.
01/2002 - 02/2002 "The International Migration in Romanian Villages". Fieldwork conducted in Moisei village (Maramures County) and Volovat village (Suceava County). The research ordered by The Office for International Migration. Supervisor: Dumitru Sandu, Department of Sociology; Bucharest University.
03/2001 - 05/2001 Marketing Research Study (Qualitative & Quantitative) for Hollywood Multiplex Comp.
03/2001 - present Visual Anthropology Film Project "The social diversity of Jiu Valley". Supervisor: Vintila Mihailescu

Research Experience

09/2002 Fieldwork in Breznitsa village on Pomak population in Bulgaria. Conducted with South East Academic League (SEAL), Sofia, Bulgaria.
06/2000 - 07/2002 Academic research and fieldwork in three villages Viscri, Turnisor and Miercurea Sibiului in Transilvania (Romania). The ethnography of local Neighbourhoods (Nachbarschafts) and Funeral Ritual, Supervisor: Vintila Mihailescu, Department of Sociology, Bucharest University.
10/2000 - 11/2000 Fieldwork in two villages of Calarasi County, study topic the agricultural associations and rural associability. Supervisor: Vintila Mihailescu, Department of Sociology, Bucharest University.
1998 - 1999 Fieldwork operator for various quantitative studies. Employers: Quantitative Research institutes as: ICCV, IMAS, INSOMAR.

Publications

2001 Dumitru, Razvan, "The Household between Neighbourhood and Kinship" in Sociologie Romaneasca Review, 2001, Vol. 1-4, pp. 250-266. http://www.sociologieromaneasca.ro/2001/articole/sr2001.14.a13.pdf
2007 Dumitru, Razvan, "Stefan cel Mare la Chisinau" in Secolul 21, Bucuresti, Fundatia Culturala Secolul 21.

Professional Affiliations

Romanian Cultural Anthropology Association

South East European Sociology Students Association (SEESSA).

Romanian Sociology Association


Languages

Romanian - native
English - fluent
French - intermediary
Russian - basic