About Me:
I was born in a little town at the Romanian border with Bulgaria, on the coast of the Black Sea. This is where I attended high school before going to Bucharest to continue my studies with a BA in Communications and Public Relations. I then worked for one year as a journalist specialized in education and the NGO sector and started an MA which was supposed to respond to my curiosity of the study of image. How much of an image do we really read by a simple look? But nor journalism, nor the image theory were to give me an answer. So I considered anthropology as an option. Once I started the MA in Anthropology at Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium), identities, gifts, exchanges replaced the Image I was looking for. Convinced that the Europeans where “individualistic” and the Latin Americans were not (as my short experience as an Erasmus exchange student in Germany thought me), I wrote a research proposal on a tangential topic, obtained a research grant from the Belgian Cooperation Universitaire pour le Development and went to search the reality of things, by myself, in Santiago de Chile. The six months spent in Chile brought me the deep conviction that anthropology and Latin America are what really make me happy. I spent six months trying to understand the hidden logic of Santiago’s biggest and oldest marketplace and I finally discovered my way. I am now on the same road, which will hopefully lead me to the feeling that I am useful through applied anthropology and that all emotional and material investment in my education until now will not have a selfish finality.
Area(s) of Training
anthropology, applied anthropology, cultural anthropology, ethnography
Area(s) of Expertise
Economic anthropology; Applied Anthropology
Current Area of Employment
Graduate Teaching Assistant - PhD Student in Sociocultural anthropology, University of Arizona
