Alumni

2022

VOICU, STEFAN 
Global Granaries. Peasants, Capitalist Farmers and Peripheral Financialization in Romania.

CHOKKALINGAM, MAHENDRAN 
In Search of Citizenship. Chakmas Between Law and Ethnicity in South Asia.

BERBEC-CHIRITOIU, ANAMARIA 
Making Virtue Out of Necessity in a Southern Romanian Mahala.

SARTAPE, VINOD
Re-institutionalising Caste in the United Kingdom: Principles of Purity, Temples, and Caste Identities among Indian Migrants in Britain.

2021
SCHWAB, Eva
Civilizing Waste: Work, Non-Work and Urban Citizenship in the Making of Belgrade (1965-2018)

HRCKOVA, JANA
Follow the Dust: Centering Polluted Natures in Warsaw.

CASTILLO, ECHEVERRiA CAROLINA
Gender and the lived experiences of climate change: Vulnerabilities, adaptation capacities, and resilience of smallholder farms in Costa Rica.

2020
ARTIUKH, VOLODYMYR 
Neo-Perestroika: Labor and State Sapitalism under Belarusian Passive Revolution.

NOVAC, SERGIU
Engineering Time: The Greifswald Laboratory for Nuclear Decommissioning.

2019
FOMINA, VICTORIA
Dead heroes and living saints : orthodoxy, nationalism, and militarism in contemporary Russia and Cyprus

TSONEVA, JANA
The Making of the Bulgarian Middle Class: Citizens Against the People in the 2013 Protests

2018
OANCA, ALEXANDRA
Bidding Wars: Enactments of Expertise and Emotional Labor in the Spanish Competition for the European Capital of Culture 2016 Title. 

MACQUARIE,  Julius-Cezar
Dissertation title: Invisible Migrants: Glocturnal Cities' 'Other Workers' In The Post-Circadian Capitalist Era.

ADRIAANS, Rik
Dissertation title: Time and the Image in the Armenian World: An Ethnography of Non-Recognition

Lecturer in Media Anthropolog at UCL

2017
GUGA, Stefan
Dissertation title: Low-cost Fordism? The Antinomies of Class in the Romanian Automobile Industry, 1989-(2016).

Working as a consultant for Groupe Syndex.

JELINEK, Csaba
Dissertation title: Uneven development, urban policy making and brokerage: Urban rehabilitation policies in Hungary since the 1970s’.

PULAY, Gergő
Dissertation title: Street Life, Value and Exchange in a Poor Neighborhood of Bucharest

SCHULZE, Freddie
Dissertation title: Gypsies and Anarchists’: Autonomy, solidarity, and sacrifice in Belgrade, Serbia

2016

IRZIK, Emrah
Dissertation title: “Free Software as Commons: Between Informational Capitalism and a New Mode of Production”

VERES, Judit
Dissertation title: Places of Culture: From Cultural Institutions to Culture-led Urban Development in Budapest

BUIER, Natalia
Dissertation title: “Time is not a military rank”: The Production of History and the Liberalization of the Spanish Railways

COOK, Ian Michael
Dissertation title: “Expectant Urbanism: Time, Space and Rhythm in a Smaller South Indian City”

SZÉKELY, Júlia
Dissertation title: The Transfiguration of the Hero: A Memory Politics of the Everyday in Berlin and Budapest

SZOMBATI, Kristóf
Dissertation title: The Revolt Of The Provinces, Anti-Gypsyism and Right-Wing Politics in Rural Hungary

2015

CORUT, Ilker
Dissertation title: Kurds between Sovereign Violence and Bio-Political Care: Healthcare Provision in Hakkâri during the AK Party Era

JEVTIC, Jana
Dissertation title: Living the Global Muslim Protest. Boycotting Israel in Two European Urban Locales

2014

CUCU, Alina
Dissertation title: Planning the state: Labour and the making of industrial socialism in Romania, 1944-1955

FLORIN, Faje ( (1984- 2020) 
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Dissertation title: Playing to Win, Learning to Lose: Sport, State and Nation in Interwar Romania

Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work at Babes-Bolyai University.

2013

DENEVA, Neda
Dissertation title: Assembling Fragmented Citizenship: Bulgarian Muslim Migrants at the Margins of Two States.

Junior Researcher at the Center for Liberal Strategies in Sofia.

HORVATH, Aniko
Dissertation title: Biographies of Exclusion: Poverty and Inequalities in Urban Romania

From 1 March 2014 until 28 February 2015: Postdoctoral Research Associate position in the Department of Education & Professional Studies in the School of Social Science & Public Policy at King’s College London

IVANCHEVA, Mariya
Dissertation title: From revolution to reconciliation: the road of Venezuelan intellectuals to state power and the Bolivarian higher education reform

2013 Fall Junior Visiting Fellow "Tsvetan Stoyanov" at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM in Vienna, Austria
2014 Post-doctoral fellow "Advanced Academia Program" at the Center for Advanced Studies, CAS in Sofia, Bulgaria

POENARU, Florin
Dissertation title: Contesting Illusions: History and Intellectual Class Struggle in Post-Communist Romania

2012

JUSTUS, AUNGO
Dissertation title: "Development as Chaos: Agromanufacturing, Dispossession and Plantation Labourers' Everyday Lives in Kenya."

Currently working as Head of Anthropology Unit, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Eastern Africa. Contacts: Justus.aungo@nairobi.msf.org

LIS, ALEXANDRA
Dissertation title: "Making a Market: The Problem of Polish Carbon in EU Climate Policies"
Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

SZŐKE, Alexandra
Dissertation title: "Rescaling States - Rescaling Insecurities: Rural Citizenship at the Edge of the Hungarian State"

One year post-doc research grant from the ERSTE Foundation for Social Research. The research is anchored in Vienna.

TURAN, Omer
Dissertation title: “Facing Eurocentrism, Facing Modernity: Questions of Modernization and Global Hierarchies in Turkish Intellectual History”

Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University

ULKER, Riza
Dissertation title: "Taking Care of Oneself and Others: Ethnic Entrepreneurs in Berlin"

Two year post-doc position in the WWTF project CITY SCALERS in Vienna.

2011

FEDYUK, Olena
Dissertation title: "Beyond Motherhood: Ukranian Female Labor Migration to Italy"

Research fellow at the Center for Policy Studies (CEU) where she works in an FP7 project NEUJOBS

From March 2014 a 2 year long postdoctoral position: Experienced researcher in Marie Curie network Changing Employment. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

KOCZE, Angela
Dissertation title: "Gender, Ethnicity and Class: Romani Women's Political Activism and Social Struggles"

Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Sociology, Budapest: research project on the "Institutionalization of Roma Politics", supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund.

Affiliated Research Fellow, at the CEU, Center for Policy Studies, Budapest
Fulbright Scholar (2012-2013), then Visiting Assistant Professor (2013-2014) at the Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.

SCHOBER, Elizabeth
Dissertation title: "Violent Imaginations: Liminal Encounters from Camp Town to the Inner City. Seoul and the United States Armed Forces in South Korea."

From Jan. 2013 post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Olso’s Department of Social Anthropology, as part of Prof. Thomas Hylland Eriksen's ERC funded research project "Overheating: The Three Crises of Globalisation".

SIMIONCA, ANCA
Dissertation title: "Critical Engagements with and within Capitalism: Romania’s Middle Managers after Socialism"

Assistant lecturer at the Sociology Department of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania.
Erste Foundation Fellowship for Social Research for 2012-2013 on Labor Markets and Employment in Central and Eastern Europe.

STEUR, Luisa
Dissertation title: "Adivasi mobilization: ’Identity’ versus ‘class’ after the Kerala model of development?"

Previously: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam

2010

POBLOCKI, Kacper
Dissertation title: "The Cunning of Class:Urbanization of Inequality in Post-war Poland"

Previously: Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Poznań
Assistant Professor, Center for European Regional and Local Studies, University of Warsaw

SZOMBATI, Istvan Deák
Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University

TOTH, Herta
Dissertation title: "Inequality and Discipline. The Production of Inequalities in a Women's Prison."

Senior Program Manager at OSI

2008

NGAMBOUK, Vitalis
Dissertation title: "Still "Fixing Women"?: Female Circumcision and the Anti-HIV/AIDS Fight among the Ejaghams of Cameroon."

Research fellow at the Linnaeus University's Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies,Vaxjö, Southeast Sweden

2007

DRAHOKOUPIL, Jan
Dissertation title: "The Rise of the Competition State in Central and Eastern Europe: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment"

Project director at the University of Mannheim, MZES
Senior researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), Brussels