QUALIFICATIONS         

2020     M.A, Visual Anthropology, SNSPA University Bucharest
2012     B.A., Sociology, University of Bucharest

PRINCIPAL RESEARCH INTERESTS

Memory Politics; Collective Memory; Tourism Industry; Cultural Commodification; Identity Formation; National Identity; Post-Imperial Contexts; Race and Ethnicity; Material Culture; Visual Anthropology; Eastern Europe.

RESEARCH PROFILE

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Regensburg, under the co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Ger Duijzings and Dr. Johana Wyss, and a Ph.D. Student Researcher for the ERC-funded project MEMPOP: Memory and Populism from Below (2024 - 2028).

My research focuses on the politics and practices of memory in the borderland region of Bukovina, Romania. I investigate how tourism development performatively produces the region’s contemporary identity by reflecting and refracting its complex heritage, often drawing on both private and collective memories. Through various methods and a broadly ethnographic approach, I aim to understand how various material and immaterial traces of the past intermingle with present political and identitarian projects, particularly in the context of rising populist sentiments.

My earlier experiences participating in various ethnographic projects in Romania, both during and outside my academic studies, sparked my interest in these themes, which I developed further as an Erasmus guest researcher at the IKGS Institute in Munich.

I am further interested in the potential of anthropology as a medium for storytelling, examining how the integration of art, image, and film, together with text, can enhance ethnographic narratives to disclose alternative perspectives.