Post on 30-Jun-2018
GLOBALIZING THE FUTURE: INFUSING INTERNATIONAL
PERSPECTIVES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT/CURRICULUM ENRICHMENT
CONFERENCE ON
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ACROSS THE GLOBE: MOBILIZNG
STUDENTS, CITIZENS AND IDEAS
8:30 a. m. - 4:30 p.m.
ROOM 203
Clayton State University Center for Continuing Education
Friday, March 6, 2015
JOINTLY SPONSORED BY
MIDDLE GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE, THE NINE UNIVERSITY AND
COLLEGE INTERANTIONAL STUDIES CONSORTIUM OF GEORGIA &
THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL
STUDIES
DRAFT PROGRAM
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Greeting
8:40 a.m Program Overview
Raj Sashti, Director,
International Education &
Nine University and College International
Studies Consortium of Georgia
Middle Georgia State College
Macon, Georgia
8:45 a. m. Social Movements in Global Studies
Roger Rouse, Ph.D.
Global Studies Center, University of
Pittsburgh
Director of “Pitt in India” and “PittMAP”
Programs
9:45 a.m. Q & A and Dicussion - Participants
10:00 a. m. Refreshment Break
10:15 a. m. POST-SOCIALIST MOVEMENTS IN
EASTERN EUROPE AND ROMANIA
Veronica Szabo, PhD
Adjunct Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Pittsburgh
11:15 a.m. Q & A and Discussion - Participants
11:30 a. m. Lunch - Clayton State University Cafeteria
12:45 p. m. THE ARAB SPRING IN BLACK
AFRICA
Jean-Jacques Ngor Sène, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Director, Global Focus Program
Chatham University, Pittsburgh
2:00 p. m. Q & A and Discussion - Participants
2:15 p. m. Refreshment Break
2:30 p. m. Urban Social Movements in
Contemporary Venezuela
Karen Goldman, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for External Relations,
Development and Assessment
Center for Latin American Studies,
University of Pittsburgh
3:45 p. m. Q & A and Discussion - Participants
4:00 p. m. Closing Remarks
4:30 p. m. Adjournment
Program Directors
Raj Sashti, Director, James A.Cook
International Education Associate Director
Middle Georgia State College Asian Studies Center
Macon, Georgia University of Pittsburgh
Program Facilitator
Karen Goldman
Assistant Director for External Relations, Development and Assessment
Center for Latin American Studies
University of Pittsburgh
Sponsoring Institutions
Middle Georgia State College - Macon, Cochran, Warner Robbins, Dublin and Eastman
Campuses
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton
Albany State University, Albany
Bainbridge College, Bainbridge
Clayton State University, Morrow
Columbus State University, Columbus
Dalton State College, Dalton
Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley
Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville
Georgia Highlands College, Rome
Georgia Perimeter College, Decatur
Georgia Southwestern State University, Americus
DR. JEAN-JACQUES SÈNE is Associate Professor of History, Cultural, and Conflict
Studies. He also coordinates the Global Focus program. In his native Senegal, he
spearheaded a number of community development initiatives with the regional bureaus of
UNICEF and UNESCO in the late 1980s-early 1990s. His doctoral dissertation
(Université de Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne, Brittany, France, 1999) explored the patterns of
survival of ancient myths and rituals in post-colonial Africa, and how they can help
establish the matrix of a new social consciousness to meet the global challenges of today.
He has lived and worked in Japan and the Netherlands. Dr. Sène also holds a degree in
Social Anthropology (Paris XIII), and a Certificate in Conflict Resolution and Peace
Studies (Duquesne University, 2001). His current research focuses on myth, religion,
power, sub-regional integration programs in West Africa, the African renaissance
movement, and neo-Marxist movements in the global arena. Jean-Jacques has made
significant achievements in the management of innovative educational programs and has
expertise in leadership-oriented projects among the youth in multicultural environments.
He maintains extensive professional linkages throughout African, American, Asian, and
European academic communities. Jean-Jacques is married to a compatriot, Valérie. They
are raising two girls in Squirrel Hill and worship at Saint Bede Church
ROGER ROUSE
CURRICULUM VITAE – SHORT VERSION January 2015
Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, 4100 Wesley W. Posvar Hall,
230 South Bouquet Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260
E-mail: rogrouse@gmail.edu; Phone: (412) 251-0327
I: EDUCATION
1989 Ph.D. -- Anthropology -- Stanford University
1980 M.A. – Anthropology – Stanford University
1975 Diploma in Social Anthropology -- Oxford University
1973 B.A. (Honours) – Modern History -- Oxford University
(Honorary M.A. awarded 1978.)
II: ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2013 to present Visiting Instructor
Global Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh
Faculty Director, Pitt in India, and PittMAP multi-city program
2006-2013 Associate Teaching Professor
Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
1997 - 2006 Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
1991 - 1997 Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology & The Residential College, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
1988 - 1990 Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
III: AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2003 Educator of the Year, Div. of Social Sciences (first year awarded)
University of California, Davis
1998 Research Fellowship
University of California Humanities Research Institute, Irvine
1996 Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan
1995 - 1996 Rockefeller Fellowship
Program in Public Spheres and the Globalization of Media
1992 Excellence in Education Award (first year of eligibility)
University of Michigan
1990 - 1991 Research Fellowship, Center for Comparative Research in History,
Society & Culture, University of California, Davis
1987 - 1988 Research Fellowship, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of
California, San Diego
IV: EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
2011-present Consulting Editor, Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
2001 - 2006 Editorial Board, Cultural Anthropology
1995 - 1997 Editorial Board, Public Culture
1994, 1997 - 2006 Editorial Collective, Public Culture
1994 - 1997 Editorial Board, The Encyclopedia of Mexican History
1975 - 1978 Editor, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford
V: RESEARCH
My current research explores the relationship between changes in dominant forms of cultural
production in the United States since the early 1980s and the ramifications within this country of
dominant efforts to restructure capitalism along transnational and neoliberal lines. This builds on
my earlier historical and ethnographic research on the changing experiences of people involved
in migration between Mexico and the United States and the factors most significant in shaping
those experiences.
VI: KEY PUBLICATIONS
1995 Questions of Identity: Personhood and Collectivity in Transnational
Migration to the United States. Critique of Anthropology 15 (4) 351-380. [Most
frequently cited article in journal’s history.]
1995 Thinking through Transnationalism: Notes on the Cultural Politics of Class
Relations in the Contemporary United States. Public Culture 7 (2): 353-402.
1992 Making Sense of Settlement: Class Formation, Cultural Struggle and
Transnationalism among Mexican Migrants in the United States. In Nina
Glick-Schiller, Linda Basch & Cristina Blanc-Szanton eds.,
Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity
and Nationalism Reconsidered. New York: New York Academy of
Sciences, vol. 645: 25-52.
1991 Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism. Diaspora: A Journal
of Transnational Studies 1 (1): 8-23. [Reprinted in five edited collections.]
VII: ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Given over a hundred talks at universities and conferences in N. America and Europe.
Organized wide variety of conferences, workshops, and speaker series.
Held four residential fellowships.
Teaching consultant for college and high-school teachers and graduate-student teaching
assistants.
Co-creator of Global Studies major at Carnegie Mellon and creator of plan that
led to
KAREN S. GOLDMAN, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for External Relations,
Development and Assessment
Center for Latin American Studies
University of Pittsburgh
kgoldman@pitt.edu
412-648-7397
5563 Bellerock Place
Pittsburgh PA 15217
karensgoldman@gmail.com
412-414-7919
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Latin American and Spanish Literature. Awarded with distinction.
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. 1990.
M.Phil. Latin American and Spanish Literature
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. 1986.
M.A. Hispanic Letters
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. 1985.
B.A. Major: Latin American Studies. Awarded Cum Laude
Barnard College, Columbia University. 1980.
HIGHER EDUCATION: TEACHING
Research Associate, Instructor, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures,
University of Pittsburgh. 2010-present
Spanish 55 course in Introduction to Latin American Literature
Introduction to Costa Rican Studies
Supervising undergraduate interns in Latin American School Visit Program and Virtual
School Visit Program
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, Chatham University
1997- 2010
Develop and teach Interdisciplinary First Year Seminars, classes in Spanish language,
Spanish and Latin American Literature and Culture, Latin American Cinema, Women’s
Studies, Cultural Studies and World Literature.
Develop Modern Languages Service Learning Internship in Pittsburgh Public Schools.
Advising for first year students, Spanish, Global Policy Studies and Interdisciplinary
Majors.
Advising for Study Abroad
Fulbright Scholarship Advisor and Campus Representative
Seminar Leader, Pittsburgh Teacher’s Institute 2001-2010
Lead seminars for Pittsburgh Public School Teachers on Pre-Columbian Civilizations of
Latin America,” “Introduction to Folk Tales,” “Contemporary Latin America: Culture
and Civilization,” “U.S. and Latin American Popular Culture” and “U.S. Latino
Literatures.” Pittsburgh Teacher’s Institute is a demonstration site of the Yale-New
Haven Teacher’s Institute.
Serve on Board of National University Council of the Pittsburgh Teacher’s Institute
Parent Organization, the Yale National Initiative for Improving K-12 Education.
Associate Professor of Spanish, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 1989-1997 Awarded
Tenure 1995.
All levels of Spanish and Portuguese, Interdisciplinary Freshman Seminars, courses on
Latin American, Spanish and U.S. Latino Literatures, women’s studies and international
and intercultural studies.
Advising for Spanish, Latin American and Chicano/ Latino Studies Majors and for
Senior Honors Theses.
Develop and direct Pitzer College Study Abroad Program in Coro, Venezuela.
Co-develop and teach in Pitzer College Summer Institute of Language and Culture
(SILC).
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish, Yale University 1987-1989
Teach Intermediate and Advanced Spanish; Introduction to Latin American Cinema.
Advising for Senior Honors Theses.
HIGHER EDUCATION: ADMINISTRATION
Assistant Director for for External Relations, Development and Assessment, Center for
Latin American Studies
University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh. 2010-present
Oversee all External and Community Relations Strategic Planning and Budgeting
involving community partners, schools, foundations, museums and non-profits.
Coordinate and execute all development and assessment activities in CLAS.
Oversee all outreach activities, including teacher professional development, K-12
enrichment and planning, Model United Nations, Middle Atlantic Latin American
Studies Conference,
Oversee Title VI application, disbursement, compliance and continuing assessment of
programs.
Coordinate all collaboration between CLAS and Title III/ Title V institutions.
Supervise and evaluate undergraduate interns in Latin American School Visit Program
and Virtual School Visit Program
Chair, Department of History, Policy, International and Cultural Studies, Chatham
University 2007-2008
Coordinate all Modern Languages Programs: Oversee staffing and curriculum for
Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish classes
Manage academic curriculum planning, assessment and staffing for department.
Administer department budget.
Represent department in faculty meetings and in administrative affairs of the
University.
Executive Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Chatham University
2004-2006
Chair of the Academic Affairs committee of the Pittsburgh Consortium for Higher
Education.
Research and write Strategic Plan for Internationalization at Chatham College.
Direct Dual Enrollment Program for Pittsburgh Public School students.
Develop and Implement Recruitment initiatives for enhancing Hispanic applicant pool.
Director of International Programs, Chatham University 2003-2004
Academic advising for international students and study abroad candidates.
Develop and maintain relationships with foreign partner institutions.
Assist admissions officers in international recruitment.
Program and direct January term abroad.
Administer International Programs Budget.
Direct Chatham College’s on-campus Global Focus Program.
Oversee modern languages and ESL programs.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Lead Writer for Title VI National Resource Center Grant, 2014-2018
Council of Independent Colleges “Engaging Communities and Campuses” Service
Learning Travel/Research Grant. 2001, 2009.
Hewlett Foundation Grant to lead Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar in Latin American
Studies.1996.
Irvine Foundation Enterprise Award to Develop Pitzer College Program in Coro,
Venezuela. 1995.
Elected to Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly. 1995-1998.
Mellon Foundation Grant for Teaching with Technology. 1993.
Ford Foundation Grant for Promoting Interdisciplinary Learning the Liberal Arts
Curriculum.1992.
Pitzer College/Pomona College Award for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities.
1990.
Pew Foundation Interdisciplinary Research Award for travel to Manaus, Brazil. 1990.
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Huntington Dissertation
Award. 1990.
Tomás Navarro Tomás Dissertation Research Fellowship. 1986.
COMMITTEE SERVICE
2010-present: University Center for International Studies Assessment Committee,
University of Pittsburgh.
2009-2010: Internationalization Committee, Committee on General Education. Chatham
University.
2008-2009: University Committee, Academic Council, Sub-committee on NSSE
Response, Chatham University.
2007-2008: Chair, Internationalization Committee, Chatham University.
2005-2007: Middle States Accreditation Steering Committee, Chatham University.
2004-2005: President’s Council, Chatham University.
2001-2003: Committee for Review of General Education, Chatham College.
1999-2003: Committee for Academic Standing, Chatham College.
1999-2000: Search Committee for Vice President for Academic Affairs, Chatham
College.
1998-1999: Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid, Chatham College.
1995-1997: Academic Planning Committee, Pitzer College.
1994-1995: Minority Recruitment and Concerns Committee, Pitzer College.
1992-1993: External Study Committee, Pitzer College.
ADVISORY BOARDS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Middle States Commission on Higher Education Institutional Evaluator, 2012-present
Chair of Committee for Language and Access, Pittsburgh Coalition Against Human
Trafficking 2010-present
Pittsburgh Public Schools High School Reform Task Force: International Baccalaureate
School Committee. 2007-2011
National University Advisory Board, Yale University National Initiative to Strengthen
Teaching in Public Schools. 2004-2010.
President, Board of Directors, Carriage House Children’s Center, Pittsburgh, Pa. 2005-
2009.
State Planning Board, Pennsylvania American Council on Education Office of Women
in Higher Education Network 2005-2009.
AICUP Review Group for State Board Regulations Pertaining to Higher Education.
2004-2006.
College Colloquia of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth.
Duquesne University, October 25, 2003, October 26, 2002.
Consultant, Spanish on Line Program, Carnegie Mellon University, June-July 2002.
Faculty leader/ lecturer, Alumni travel to Havana, Cuba. Chatham College, April 2002.
Advisory Committee, Council of Independent Colleges Grant for “Engaging
Communities and Campuses” Chatham College, 2001-2003
Manuscript Reviewer, Cultural Anthropology, 1998-99.
Associated Faculty, Cultural Studies Program, Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont, CA, 1995-1997.
Lead Grant Writer, Mellon Foundation Grant, Pitzer/Scripps/Harvey Mudd Colleges
Languages Consortium, 1994.
Manuscript Reviewer, American Ethnologist, 1991-94.
SELECTED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
“Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros: The Representation of Latin America in
Disney’s ‘Good Neighbor’ Films” in Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race,
Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, and Disability. McFarland Press. Jonathan Cheu, Editor.
2012.
“Rural and Urban Brazil in Cinema Nôvo and Beyond: Barren Lives and The Hour of
the Star.” In Representing the Rural: Space, Place and Identity in Films About the Land
Catherine Fowler and Gillian Helfield, Editors. Wayne State University Press. 2007.
“La Princesa Plástica: Hegemonic and Oppositional Representations of Latinidad in
Hispanic Barbie.” in From Bananas to Buttocks: Latina Bodies in Contemporary U.S.
Popular Culture. Myra Mendible, ed. University of Texas Press. 2006.
“Teachers Institute Seminars on Latin America: a Faculty Perspective.” in On Common
Ground. Number 10. New Haven: Yale-New Haven Teacher’s Institute. Spring 2005.
p. 9.
“Women Looking: Specularity and Power in Luís Buñuel’s Viridiana and Tristana.” In
Tinta : Research Journal of Hispanic and Lusophone Studies. Department of Spanish
and Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara. Spring 2004.
“Gendered Images in the Spanish Avant-garde of the Twentieth Century: Revisiting
The Moon and the Eye in Luís Buñuel’s Preface to Un chien andalou ” In Torre de
Papel, vol. xiii, no. 3, Fall 2003. pp. 25-38.
Review of “Nuevas Voces Hispanas: contextos literarios para el debate y la
composición” by Maria J. Fraser-Molina et. al. NECTFL Review, Spring 2003. pp. 74-
75.
“See You in C-U-B-A.” Chatham College Alumnae Recorder. Fall, 2002. pp. 48-49.
“Albalucía Angel” in Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes: A Bio-
Critical Sourcebook. David William Foster, Editor. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,
1994. pp. 13-16.
“A ‘Third’ Feminism? Solveig Hoogesteijn’s Macu, The Policeman’s Wife in Latin
American Cinema. IRIS No. 13: A Journal of Theory on Image and Sound, Kathleen
Newman, Editor. Indiana University Press. October 1994. pp. 87-95.
“Esos oscuros objetos del deseo” de Buñuel, a estudio.” Interview with Jordi Saladrigas
in El Periódico de Barcelona, April 30, 1990. p. 30.
SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES
“Bringing Brazil and Portuguese into the U.S. K–16 Education System.” XXXII Latin
American Studies Association International Congress, Chicago, IL, May 24, 2014.
“Using Technology to Teach Latin American Studies: Skype, Social Media, Google +” in
“The Social Contract of Latin American Studies Programs: Innovation in Public Education”
Chair: Natalie C Arsenault, University of Texas/Austin XXXI Latin American Studies
Association International Congress. Washington, D.C. June 1, 2013.
“La Princesa Plástica: Hegemonic and Resistant Representations of Hispanic Barbie”
Latin American Studies Association XXVI International Congress. San Juan, Puerto
Rico. March 15, 2006
“Spanish Writing in Exile: Luís Buñuel, Luís Alcoriza, Juan Larrea, Max Aub and the
making of Los olvidados in Mexico.” Northeast Modern Language Association
Convention, March 4, 2004. Pittsburgh, PA.
“Hegemonic and Resistant Representations of Popular Cultural Artifacts: Hispanic
Barbie Doll.” ‘The Americas Undisciplined’ Colloquium, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA. October 29, 2003.
“The Language of Northeastern Brazil in Film and Literature” Film/Literature
Conference, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. October 24, 2002.
“Using Blackboard to Enhance Access and Communication in On-Campus Courses.”
Faculty Development Seminar, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, September
11-12, 2000.
“New Technologies and Limited Resources at the Small Liberal Arts College: Using
Digital Technology to Enhance Foreign Language Learning.” 6th Annual Teaching and
Learning with Technology Roundtable Summer Institute Sponsored by American
Association for Higher Education, Phoenix, AZ, July 16, 2000.
“Hybrid Classes: Bridging the Gap Between Innovation and Tradition in the Liberal
Arts Curriculum.” Council of Independent Colleges 11th Annual Information
Technologies Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2000.
“Sensationalism and Historical Revisions: Multiple Murders in Latin American
Cinema.” Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Guadalajara,
Mexico, April 1997.
“María Félix and Dolores del Río: Contrasting Images of Women in Mexican Cinema
of the 1940s.” VI International Conference of the Association of Hispanic Women’s
Literature, Barnard College, New York, NY, October 1995.
“Mujeres del Culebrón: Women in Venezuelan Telenovelas.” Console-ing Passions
Conference on Television, Video and Feminism. University of Washington at Seattle,
April 1995.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Latin American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
restructuring of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis.
VERONICA SZABO
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
2400 W. W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260
Telephone: 724-991-6978
Veronica Szabo E-mail: veronica.szabo@gmail.com
Education
2012 PhD, Sociology, University of Pittsburgh. Dissertation title: “Youth and Politics in Communist Romania: 1980-
1989”.
2003 MA, Sociology, University of Pittsburgh. Thesis: “Handwriting on the Wall: Revolutionary Graffiti in Bucharest,
1989”.
2002 Certificate in Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Pittsburgh
1999 B.A. University of Bucharest, Department Sociology, Psychology and Pedagogy; major in Sociology.
Appointments
2013- present – Adjunct Professor, University of Pittsburgh
2014-2015 – Faculty Residence Hall Mentor, Holland Hall
2013- 2014 - Research Associate at Magee Women’s Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
2011 - 2013 - Adjunct Professor, Community College of Allegheny County
2012 (fall) - Adjunct Professor, Robert Morris University
2008-2009 – Research assistant for Prof. Marcus Rediker, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh for “The
Amistad Rebellion. An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom,” Viking 2012
2003-2004 - Managing editor of East European Politics and Societies, published by Sage Publishing, editor: Ilya
Prizel, University of Pittsburgh
1998 Editor of the Fieldwork Journals of The Social Observer, published by the University of Bucharest, 1998
edition
Courses
Courses created and taught independently:
Deviance and Social Control, Introduction to Sociology, Introduction to anthropology, Marriage, Peace Movements
and Education, Separation, divorce, custody; Social Theory, Sociology of the Family, Sociology of Everyday
Life
Courses taught as Teaching Assistant:
Deviance and Social Control, Social Problems, Sociology of the Family , US history since 1865, Introduction to
Sociology
Other appointments
Research interests
Sociology of Education
Social Movements/Political Sociology
Sociology of Youth and Education
Global Sociology/ Eastern Europe
Grants, Awards and Honors
2006 University Center for International Studies - International Studies Fund Fellowship to conduct dissertation
research in Romania ($1,000)
2004 UCIS International Studies Fund Fellowship to conduct dissertation research in Romania ($800)
2004 Barbara Tomczyk research grant for research in Eastern Europe ($2,500)
2004 European Union Center Summer Pre-dissertation Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (1,500)
2004 Teaching Excellence Award, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
2003 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (Award Id: 0326700) for Youth and Politics in
Communist Romania (1980 - 1989), $7,500
2003 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Association travel grant ($350)
2003 Center for Russian and European Studies summer travel grant ($300)
2002 European Union Center Summer Graduate Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh ($800)
1999 Soros Foundation Supplementary Grant Program ($800)
Presentations, Publications and Papers
“Femeile din Comunitatea Fascistă din România” (Ladies of the Legion of the Archangel Michael) Translation for
Roland Clark. In Opoziţia de la Dreaptă: Legiunea Arhangelului Mihail în România, 1918-1938, edited by
Constantin Iordachi, Armen Heinen and Oliver Jens Schmitt. Bucharest: Polirom, Forthcoming.
“Men Embracing Non-Violence – preliminary results of a study about Batterer Intervention Programs,– November
14, 2013 presented at “Strengthening and Scaling Offender Accountability Programming in PA”, organized by
the FISA Foundation in Pittsburgh, PA
“Politics and everyday lives of youth in communist Romania”. Paper presented at the International Congress on
Romanian Studies, Sibiu, July 2012
Romanian Film Festival 2010 - program film description for “Police, Adjective”
Romanian Film Festival 2008 - program film descriptions for “Stuff and dough” and “12:08 East of Bucharest”
“Youth as a research subject for Romanian sociologists in the 1980s”. Paper presented at the 2010 Romanian
Studies Conference, Indiana Bloomington, February 2010
Handwriting on the wall: revolutionary graffiti in Bucharest 1989. Research article in preparation (with John Markoff)
From Eminescu to Eminem: RAP in ROMANIA. Paper presented at the annual graduate student conference
“Historical and Contemporary Forces of Integration and Disintegration in the Post-Communist Societies”
Pittsburgh, 5-7 March 2004
Down with the shoemaker: grievances and revolutionary demands in Bucharest, 1989. Paper presented at the
Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, 20-23
November 2003
The EU and Romania’s Divided Roma Movement. (with Mihnea Vasilescu) University of Pittsburgh Center for West
European Studies and European Union Center lecture, April 7, 2003
Youth in transition: the hip hop subculture in post communist Romania. Paper presented at the Annual Convention
of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,
Hip hop without frontiers. Article published in Dilema, 491 (August) 2002
Handwriting on the wall: revolutionary graffiti in Bucharest 1989. Paper presented at "The Contours of Legitimacy in
Central Europe: New Approaches in Graduate Studies", European Studies Centre, St. Anthony’s College,
Oxford, May 2002
Families under socialism. Guest lecture, 10 April 2003, University of Pittsburgh, Sociology of the Family Course,
instructor: Kathleen Blee
Everyday life under socialism in Romania. Guest lecture, November 2003 Eastern Europe in World Politics,
instructor: Ronald Linden
Women Around the World. National Women's History Month presentation, April 2002
Economic aspects of wedding in a contemporary Romanian village: Pucheni. Paper presented at The Annual
Congress of the Romanian Cultural Anthropology Society’s, Sibiu, Romania, October 1999
Training and Research Participation
2013 – November 14, “Strengthening and Scaling Offender Accountability Programming in PA”, organized by FISA
Foundation
2002 Independent research on the Roma rights non-profit sector in Romania
1998 1999 –summer fieldwork with the Social Observer in Pucheni, Romania, part of a P.H.A.R.E. regional
development project
1998 World Bank research project assessing of the socio-cultural capital in several rural communities (Mosna
village, Romania)
1998 Workshop participation, “Workshop on nationalism and ethnicity”, organized by the Soros Foundation;
1997-1996 Summer fieldwork with the Social Observer in a multi-ethnic rural community: the Cristian village from
Transylvania
Volunteer work
2011-2013 Vice-president of Pittsburgh Romanian Studies
2008 - Present Coordinator and moderator of Pittsburgh Romanians
2010 Discussion Group Leader at the 40th annual World Affairs Institute, Forecasting Global Trends: Your World in
2020 and Beyond, Pittsburgh, November 17, 2010
2006-2008 Volunteer at the Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh
2007, 2010 Organizing committee member of the Romanian Film Festival at the University of Pittsburgh,
2005 – 2007 President of the Sociology Graduate Student Organization at the University of Pittsburgh
2002 Graduate Student Representative, University of Pittsburgh Faculty of Arts and Sciences Graduate Council
2001–2002 Sociology Department Representative to the University of Pittsburgh Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Student Organization
1998 Co-organizer of the Romanian Cultural Anthropology Society’s Congress, Sibiu, Romania;
1998 Organizer of The Social Observer’s Fieldwork roundtable, Bucharest, Romania.
Professional Membership
American Sociological Association
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Romanian Society for Cultural Anthropology
Society for Romanian Studies
Pittsburgh Romanian Studies