Viorel Anastasoaie

Curriculum Vitae


Viorel Anastasoaie

Curriculum Vitae

Current Project

Name: Marian Viorel Anastasoaie
Born: 7th February 1976 in Ploiesti, Romania
Married, one child
E-mail: ucsamva at ucl.ac.uk
            viorelan at gmail.com

Present position:
Mphil/PhD student in Social Anthropology, University College London

Education:

November 2004-present: Master in Social Anthropology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (thesis to be defended in June 2007).

June 1999: MA in History, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary)

October 1994-June 1998: BA in Sociology, University of Bucharest


Other courses:

July 2001: "Plight of the Gypsies: Underclass and ethnic transformations in post-communist societies", Central European Summer University, Budapest.

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)