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Scholarships:
September 2006-present: Marie Curie SocAnth doctoral fellowship
August 1999-August 2001: Eastern Scholar, Civic Education Project
October 1999: Curriculum Resource Center fellow, Central European University, Budapest
June 1998-June 1999: scholarship from Open Society Institute, Budapest to undertake MA in History at Central European University, Budapest.
Professional Experience:
March / May 2002: Evaluator of PHARE European Projects in Romania. Employer: MEDE European Consultancy (Holland). Mission: elaboration of the methodology and evaluation of 40 local projects concerning cultural, social, health, educational and economic aspects in Roma communities.
October 1999 / June 2001: Visiting Teaching Assistant as Civic Education Project Fellow, Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of European Studies and Sociology Department. Mission: Teaching "Roma in Eastern Europe: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives" (course), "Research Methods in Anthropology" (seminar), "History and Anthropology" (seminar).
Publications:
Edited Books:
Viorel Anastasoaie, Csilla Könczei, Eniko Magyari-Vincze and Ovidiu Pecican (eds.), Breaking the Wall: Representing Anthropology and Anthropological Representations in Post-Communist Eastern Europe, Efes, Cluj-Napoca, 2003
Viorel Anastasoaie and Dana Tarnovski (eds.), Roma projects in Romania, 1990-2000, Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center&European Commission, 2001
Articles and books chapters:
"Fighting racism and discrimination", in Viorel Anastasoaie and Dana Tarnovski (eds.) Roma projects in Romania, 1990-2000, Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center&European Commission, 2001, pp. 157-161
"Representations of Roma in Romanian media", idem, pp. 163-165
"Projects for Roma in Romania: experiences, results and perspectives" (with Dana Tarnovski), idem, pp. 181-189
"Romania: Representations, public policies and political projects" (with László Fosztó), in Will Guy (ed.) Between Past and Future: the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe, University of Hertfordshire Press, 2001, pp. 351-369
"Searching for Lost Ancestors: traditions and local history in a village from south-eastern Transylvania" in "Modele de convietuire in Ardeal: Zabala" (Models of living together in Transylvania), Kriza Janos Ethnographic Association, 1999, pp. 20-30
Book reviews and review essays:
"Death of the Father: An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority" edited
by John Borneman, in Journal of Comparative Sociology, vol. 5, no. 4, 2006
"Roma/Gypsies in the History of Romania: an old challenge for Romanian
Historiography", Romanian Journal of Society and Politics, vol. 3, no. 1, 2003,
pp. 262-274
"The Monograph as Utopia: Interviews with H. H. Stahl (1985-1987)" by Zoltán Rostás, The Romanian Journal of Society and Politics, vol.1, no.1, 2001, pp. 194-200
"The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Post-socialist Change" by
Katherine Verdery, in Romanian Journal of Liberal Arts, vol. 1, no. 2, 2001,
pp. 127-131
Translations:
2000 Translation of "Homecoming: Affairs of Anthropologists in and of Eastern Europe" from from "Anthropology Today" (June 1996) by Laszlo Kürti, in "Întâlniri Multiple: Antropologi Occidentali în Europa de Est" (edited by Magyari-Vincze Enikö, Colin Quigley and Gabriel Troc), Cluj, Editura Fundatiei pentru Studii Europene, pp. 67-88
2000 Translation of "Romanian Socialism as a Cultural and Social System" from "The Solitude of Collectivism: Romanian Villagers to the Revolution and Beyond" by David Kideckel, Cornell University Press, 1993, idem, pp. 183-217
2000 Translation of "A transition from Socialism to Feudalism? Reflections on the Post-socialist State" from "What Was Socialism and What Comes Next?", Princeton 1996, by Katherine Verdery, idem, 217-260
2000 Translation of "Turning Money into Culture: 'Distinction' among Eastern Europe's Nouveaux Riches" by Steven Sampson in idem, pp. 261-282
1998 Translation of "In the shadow of Enlightenment: some considerations about antiracist pedagogies" by Phil Cohen in Rromathan- Studies about Roma, 2: 25-43
Languages:
Romanian: native
English: excellent reading, speaking, and writing
French: very good reading, speaking, and writing
Spanish: good reading, speaking, and writing
Professional affiliations:
Member of the Romanian Association of Cultural Anthropologists (since 2000)
Member of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (since 1999)
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