Research team
Liviu Chelcea
Liviu Chelcea teaches at the University of Bucharest and is interested in inequalities, housing, and metabolic flows in cities. Holding a PhD in anthropology (2005) from the University of Michigan, he writes about postsocialism, de-industrialisation, housing restitution, and urban infrastructures in Bucharest. Since 2018, he has been studying the multiple ways drinking water is accessed and managed in New York City, including the domestic use of water filters (American Ethnologist) and water hospitality in restaurants (Current Anthropology).
Alin Stancu
Marian Cercel
Adina Ionescu
Oana Mogoș
Oana Mogos is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, within the Faculty of Marketing. She teaches Public Relations and is actively involved in both academic and applied research. Her areas of interest include marketing, internal marketing, employer branding, and corporate social responsibility—topics that shape both her academic pursuits and practical insights.
Her doctoral research focuses on exploring how employer branding influences employee satisfaction in Romania, contributing to a better understanding of organizational dynamics and human resource strategies in the local context.
Ramona Năstase
Bogdan Iancu
Bogdan Iancu is a university lecturer in anthropology at the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest, within the Department of Sociology, where he teaches courses in ethnographic practice, visual anthropology, and material culture. He is also a researcher at the Romanian Peasant Museum. He holds a PhD in Anthropology and Ethnology from the University of Perugia.
His research focuses on post-socialist transformations in both rural and urban contexts — including labor, housing, material culture, traditional ecological knowledge and practices — as well as political ecology and heritage policies. Over the past decade, he has conducted ethnographic research on the Sadova–Corabia irrigation system.
He is the author and editor of several academic volumes, including New Cultures. New Anthropologies, co-edited with Vintilă Mihăilescu and Monica Stroe (Humanitas, 2012); The Material Culture (Re)Turn in Anthropology: Promises and Dead-ends (Humanitas, 2013); Sezonierii: muncă și identități în mișcare [Seasonal Workers: Labor and Moving Identities], co-edited with Iuliana Dumitru (Pro Universitaria, 2024), as well as of articles such as In Search of Eligibility: Common Agricultural Policy and the Reconfiguration of Hay Meadows Management in the Romanian Highlands (with Monica Stroe), published in Martor (2016), and From Peasant Workers to Amenity Migrants. Socialist Heritage and the Future of Mountain Rurality in Romania (with Andrea Membretti), in the Journal of Alpine Research (2017).
His most recent publications include the article Out of one, many: Hydro-economic logics in a World Bank-financed irrigation project in Romania (with Monica Stroe), published in Eurasian Geography and Economics (2025), and the volume Windows of Change: Post-socialist Transformations in a Community of Carpenters in Bucharest (Pro Universitaria, 2025).