Moderator Debate: "Architects and Contractors for a Sustainable Built Environment in Romanian Villages. New Roles. New Responsibilities"
Academic data
1971 – 1974: University of Bucharest, Faculty of Psychology; bachelor of psychology.
1993: Ph. D. in psychology from the University of Bucharest
1974 – 1978: Researcher at the National Institute of Gerontology
1979 – 2001: Researcher at the Center for Anthropological Researches of the Rumanian Academy; head of the compartment of cultural anthropology
1991 – 2000: Assistant professor, University of Bucharest
1998 – Columnist at the cultural journal “Dilema”
2000 – Full professor at the National School for Political Studies and Administration
– Head of the master program in anthropology
– Head of the Department of Sociology
2005 – 2010 General director of the Museum of the Romanian Peasant
2008 – Director of the Doctoral School in Sociology and Communication
Visiting professor at the universities of: Provance, Lyon II, Montpellier, Bordeaux, EHESS (France), Neuchâtel (Suisse), Humboldt (Germany), Pecs (Hungary), UQAM (Canada), Perugia (Italy); senior fellow of Center for Advanced Studies (Sofia), visiting fellow at Institut für die Wiessenschaften von Menschen (Vienna), Max Planck Institute for Anthropology (Hale)
Fellow of: Rumanian Society of Cultural Anthropology (president 1996-2004); Société des Européanistes (secretary for eastern Europe 1990-2000, president 2010); International Association of South-east European Anthropology (coordinator of the executive committee 2000-2001); European Association of Social Anthropologists; Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française; Association Française de Balkanologie; South-east European Academic League
Fields of research: Community studies; ethnicity; economic anthropology; theoretical anthropology
Grants and research projects
2009-2011: “Repertorii de gospodărie, valori şi practice” (Household inventories, values and practices), CNCSIS (project manager)
2007-2009: “Citizenship and Changing Political Identity in Two Globalizing Societies”, Wenner Gren Foundation (David Kideckel, Vintila Mihailescu, Shaji Varkey)
2007-2009: “Comunităţi etnice din Dobrogea” (Ethnic communities in Dobrudgea), CNCSIS (project manager)
2006-2008: „Populaţiile istorice româneşti” (Romanian historical populations), Minister of Foreign Affairs (project manager)
2004-2007: “Dioscuri” – Encounters of economic cultures from East and West Europe, UE/Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (national coordinator)
2004-2006: “Plexus”, “Hybrids, identity, roles”, Center for Advance Studies, Sofia (member of the directory board)
2002: “After the Accession”, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (national coordinator)
2000-2001: “Peasants strategies and rural development”, Institute for Human Sciences, Viena (coordinator)
1998-2002: “The analyze and management of social and inter-ethnic relations at community and regional level”, World Bank / National Council of University Research (project manager)
1998-2000: “Rural development in Romania”, PHARE (Director of the “Bucharest Rural Observatory”)
1998-1999: “Balkan neighbors”, ACCESS, Sofia (national coordinator)
1997-1998: “Civic network for cultural pluralism and multicultural integration in Southeast Europe”, PHARE Democracy program (researcher)
1996-1998: “Diversitatea lumii rurale în tranziţie. Strategii sociale şi valori în satul românesc” (The diversity of the rural world in transition. Social strategies and values in the Romanian village), Ministerul Cercetării şi Tehnologiei (project manager)
1995: “Winners and losers. Remaking social boundaries in post-communist Romania”, Central European University – Research support program (individual grant)
Publications
Books
1. Vintila Mihailescu iràsai , Antropologiai Mühely KAM, Csikszereda, 3, 1993 (80 pagini)
2. Fascinatia diferentei, Paideia, Bucuresti, 1999 (274 pagini)
3. Socio-hai-hui. O altă sociologie a tranziţiei, Paideia, Bucuresti, 2000 (158 pagini)
4. Svakodnevica nije vise ono sti je bila Biblioteka XX Vek, Beograd, 2002 (282 pagini)
5. Socio-hai-hui prin arhipelagul Romania, Polirom, Iasi, 2006
6. Antropologie. Cinci introduceri, Polirom, Iasi, 2007
7. Sfîrşitul jocului. România celor 20 de ani, Curtea veche, Bucureşti, 2010
Co-author
1. Paysans de l’histoire, DAR, Bucarest, 1992 (cu Ioana Popescu şi Ioan Pânzaru) (103 pagini)