Eleonora Magda
Craciun (Romania). Informal economy, clothing and
consumption: a study of fake designer labels; this is a study
of a transnational clothing network linking production and consumption
sites in Turkey, Romania and beyond.
Supervisor: Ayse Caglar and Daniel Miller
PhD at UCL, London
University College London
Ana Bleahu
(Romania). Ana’s thesis will be focused on the study of Romanian
emigrants’ integration on "official" and on “informal”
labor markets in Italy and Spain and will examine the informal
forms of self-organization that arise among the migrants in order
to organise and manage the challenges migrants face under a system
that needs their labour but refuses to acknowledge this need publicly
or institutionalise it openly.
Supervisor: Dumitru Sandu
PhD at University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology
Lydie Fialova
(Czech Republic). Autonomy and agency of psychiatric patients
in the context of post-socialist society: the psychiatrist's perspective.
Supervisor: Roland Littlewood
PhD at Charles University in Prague / Edinburgh University
Aleksandra
Lojek-Magdziarz (Poland). Jihad: Legal and regligious
aspects. This study includes historical research (Quran, ahadith
and tafsirat through to thinkers like ibn Taymiyya) as well as
an analysis of jihad in XIX and XX century. Ola is investigating
the rise of fundamentalism understood not only as a rejection
of the secular order of post-Enlightment Europe but also as an
attempt to recover imaginary past glory of Muslims.
Supervisor: Cornelia Sorabji
PhD at Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Raluca Pernes
(Romania). Development projects in the 'Second World.' Raluca
is analyzing the redefinition of the role of the state in the
context of interventions by international agencies.
Supervisor: Michael Stewart, Marius Lazar and Don Kalb
PhD at BBU, Cluj
Tamas
Dombos (Hungary). Ethical Consumption: Discourse
and Practice. Tamas is investigating how different actors - activists,
entrepreneurs and consumers - co-construct the market as a politicized
space. Three cases form the core of his empirical study: the daily
operation of an organic food store, the introduction of fair-trade
products to the market, and collective branding of locally produced
goods.
Supervisor: Daniel Miller and Ayse Caglar
PhD at CEU Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology
Vihra Barova
(Bulgaria). The focus of this research is strongly connected to
the intense periods of urbanisation, following the Second World
War and the collapse of socialism in 1989, which did not appear
to cause a break up of relations between urban and rural residents
of the same kin. Vihra's research work looks at family networks
that operate between countryside and city and the kinds of social
and economic strategies that are employed. She carried out her
fieldwork in the Central Rhodope mountain region of Bulgaria,
which is famous for its strong kinship ties. She uses ethnographic
and network analysis methods in order to investigate the kinship
practice in times of transition and insecurity.
Supervisors: Chris Hann
PhD at the Ethnographic Institute and Museum, Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences
Sorin Gog
(Romania). My research project is focused on the way the new post-socialist
cosmology is restructuring religion and how it is shaping the
religious mentalities of contemporary Romania. I analyze the symbolic
architecture of the discourse that surrounds and penetrates the
dead body and of the way the cemetery is transformed into a micro-world
that reflects the religious, ethnic and cultural struggles of
the new post-socialist world.
Supervisor: Chris Hann
PhD at BBU, Department of Sociology
Yulia Guzhvenko
(Russian Federation). My research interests are focused on ethno-social
dynamics of population’s structure in post-Soviet [Eastern] Kazakhstan
with special emphasis on migration movements. I will analyze different
(domestic, external, etc) migration flows, its political and economic
context, Kazakh government language policies and its implementation
on regional level, ethnic attitudes between two main ethnic groups
– Russians and Kazakhs.
Supervisors: Gunther Schlee, Svetlana Jacquesson
PhD at Anthropology, National Institute of Oriental Languages
and Civilizations
Tihana Rubic
(Croatia). Kinship and family relations in rural and urban socialist
and post socialist Croatia: patterns, praxes, rituals, values;
Tihana is focusing in particular on cultural anthropological interpretation
of role of kinship and family in urban and rural settings, in
20th century (notably, second half) in Croatia. The research and
the analysis are dealing with everyday patterns, praxis and values
attached to family life, social security, family assistance, rituals,
rules and expectations.
Supervisors: Patrick Heady
PhD at Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty
of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.
Diana Szanto
(Hungary). I intend to take international development as a field
to study the functioning of the double process of fixing and transforming
collective identities. By observing interpersonal interactions
involving actors and beneficiaries of international aid organisations
working in West Africa I would like to discover the varying strategies
of the social use of collective identities, as well as to reflect
on their cultural dimension. I believe that such a study might
ultimately contribute to challenge the dichotomy of modernity
and tradition still underlying the "Big Divide" between the "developed"
and the "developing" world.
Supervisors: Jacqueline Knörr
Damiana Otoiu
(Romania). (Re)constitution of private property in Central and
Eastern Europe after 1989 withn particular reference to the restitution
of Jewish community property in Romania.
Supervisor: Kebeet and Franz von Benda-Beckmann
PhD at Free University of Brussels, Faculty of Social, Political
and Economical Sciences & University of Bucharest, Faculty of
Political Sciences
Monica Vasile (Romania). Communal forest property
in Romania; Monica is working in the Vrancea Mountains of Romania,
investigating the post socialist property regime of using resources
and not actually actually owning land.
Supervisor: Kebeet and Franz von Benda-Beckmann
PhD at University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social
Work
Maja Veselic
(Slovenia). The impact of the PRC's modernization reforms in Education;
she is focussing in particular on effects of these reforms on
the ethno-religious identitifications of Hui youth in Northwestern
China.
Supervisor: Keebet Benda-Beckmann
PhD at Dept. of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of
Arts, University of Ljubljana
Goldsmiths University of London
Gábor Halmai
(Hungary). Anti-neoliberalism in Hungary and Brazil. My research
investigates the way people mobilize in reaction to globalization
through the examples of the "civic circles" and the MST. Within
the context of neoliberal hegemony, the potential of autonomous
bottom-up organization is probed in two post-authoritarian semi-peripheries.
Supervisors: Don Kalb and Stephen Nugent
PhD at CEU, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Joanna Zalewska
(Poland). Old age in youth culture. Case of Warsaw.
Supervisor: Frances Pine
PhD at GSSR, Polish Academy of Sciences
Babes-Bolyai University
Yelis Erolova
(Bulgaria). The markers of self-identification of Roma/Gypsies
are main constructing elements of their identity. My project research
Roma/Gypsy identity expressions in the spheres of their material
culture (house, dress, food and etc.).
Supervisor: Marius Lazar
PhD at Balkan Ethnology Department, Ethnographic Institute and
Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria