Work
September 2014 – Present – Professor, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Romania
September 2003 – September 2014– Reader, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Romania.
March 2001-September 2003 – Lecturer, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, Romania.
June 1998 to February 2001 – Senior Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.
October 1996 to June 1998 – Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.
June 1992 to October 1996 – Assistant of Research, Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.
October 1990 to June 1992 – Sociologist, Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.
Education
2016 (April) – Habilitation, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work- Sociology.
2006 – 2007 – Post Doctoral Fellow, CRIV-VIFF-Universite de Montreal, Monteal, Canada (Professor Jacqueline Oxman Martinez)
1999 – 2001 – M.A., National School of Administrative and Political Sciences: Major: Gender Studies
1996 – 2000 – Ph.D, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Major: Sociology (Sociology of Mass Communication)
1986 – 1990 – M.A., University of Bucharest, Faculty of Philosophy, Major: Philosophy-History (Philosophy).
Other courses and qualifications
2014 (January-August) – Visiting Senior Fellow, University of Sofia,University Research Complex ’’Alma Mater’’ and Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science.
2011 (July-October) – Visiting Senior Fellow, Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul, South Korea.
2008 (September-November) – Visiting Fellowship, Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
1996 (June-July) – Fellowship: Summer Course Media and Democracy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
Grants – Director
June-November 2020 – Director of the Grant Entre eux et nous. Sensibilisation et action, AUF-BECO.
2017 – 2019 – Director of the Grant Alimentation, Nutrition et les Medias, AUF – BECO.
January – August 2014 – Director of the Grant 2014 EU Elections in Bulgaria and Romania. Sofia University ”St. Kliment Ohridski” – University Research Complex ”Alma Mater”, Contract Number FUNK01-1/22.12.2009.
2013 – 2014 – Grant Director, Academy of Korean Studies, Grant – AKS-2013-R71. Searching the Sameness and Otherness through Hallyu in the Balkans and Central Europe. Academy of Korean Studies.
2004 -2005 – Grant Director, National Council for the Scientific Research [CNCSIS] Grant No 117/2004: Mass media and the process of Romania`s integration in the Europea Union – A journalistic view [www.cncsis.ro].
Awards
2000 – D. Gusti Award- Romanian Academy – Section Sociology.
Grants – member of the team
2019 –present – National Coordinator of the Romanian team in the “European Election Monitorig Center” coordinated by University Roma Tre (Italy).
2019- present – Coordinator with scientific communication for the COST Action CA17102 ”Police Stops”.
2019-present – National Representative – COST Action CA 17102 ”Police Stops”.
2017 – 2019 – Representative of the University of Bucharest in the scientific network Réseau régional francophone sur la santé, la nutrition et la sécurité alimentaire-Sain under the coordination of AUF – BECO.
2016 – 2018 – Member of the team which made the research project Demokracja bezpośrednia w Europie Środkowej i Wschodniej po 1989 roku: wymiar formalnoprawny i praktyczny. Analiza politologiczna (UMO-2014/15/B/HS5/01866). The project was coordinated by Prof. dr hab. Maria Marczewska-Rytko from the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University “Maria Skłodowska-Curie”, Lublin – and was financed by the National Science Centre – Poland (Project No. 2014/15/B/HS5/01866)
2014 – 2015 – Member of the Romanian team which made the research project European Election Campaign 2014. The project was coordinated by Edoardo Novelli (Universita Degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy), Christina Holtz Bacha (University of Mainz) and Kevin Rafter(Dublin City University).
2012 – 2014 – Member of the Romanian team which made the research project Media Coverage of the Polish EU Presidency. The project was coordinated by Agnieszka Stępińska from the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at the Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan, Poland. The project was co-sponsored by the Polish National Center of Science (grant no. NN 116 614044).
2012 – 2014– Member of the Romanian team which made the research project EU KIDS Online III. The project was coordinated by Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, Department of Media and Communication
2012 – 2014– Member of the Romanian team which made the Safer Internet 2012 Project Net Children Go Mobile. The project was coordinated by Giovanna Mascheroni, Universita Catolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italiy.
2008 – 2011 – Member of the Romanian team which made the research project EU KIDS Online II. The project was coordinated by Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, Department of Media and Communication.
2008 – 2012 – Member of the Romanian team which made the research project The Romanian diasporic public and the public space in Romania. The project was coordinated by Camelia Beciu (National School of Political and Administrative Sciences, Bucharest, Romania).
2007 – 2009 – Member of the international team which made the research project Sexually explicit imagery in mass media. The project was coordinated by Katharine Sarikakis (Leeds University) and Alison Beale (Simon Fraser University).
2005 – 2006 – Member of the Romanian Team (Together with Ph.D. Researcher Camelia Beciu, Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy) which made the research project about the presentation of the International Day of Women in Romania. The project was made at the same time in several countries from Europe and was coordinated by Marlène Coulomb-Gully and Simone Bonnafous (France).
1996 – 1999 – Member of the Romanian Team (Together with Dorina Miron and Lori McKinnon from Alabama University, United States) which made the research project about the influence of mass media on the voting behavior in Romania. The project was made at the same time in several countries from Eastern Europe (Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Russian Federation, Yougoslavia, Germany, Turkey and Romania) and was coordinated by Lynda Lee Kaid (Oklahoma University). The results were published in L. L. Kaid (Ed.), Television and Politics in Evolving European Democracies -pp.89-116, New York: Nova Sciences. –ISBN-1-56072-753-5.
Outside recognition
2021 – present – Member in the Editorial Board of Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies.
2020 – present – Member in the Editorial Board of East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (EAJPC), ISSN 20517084, ONLINE ISSN 20517092.
2020 – present – Member in the Editorial Board of Revista Studii şi Cercetări de Antropologie, ISSN 2344-2824; ISSN-L 0039-3886.
2019 – present – Member in the Editorial Board of Mediální studia / Media Studies, ISSN 2464-4846.
2018 – present – Member in the Editorial Board of Open Journal For Sociological Studies (OJSS-EB), ISSN (Online): 2560-5283.
2014 – present- Member in the Editorial Board of Romanian Journal of Sociological Studies, ISSN: 2558 – 9962
2013 – present – Professor at the Francophone Summer School in Communication Sciences. Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences-University of Bucharest.
2012 – present- Member in the Editorial Board of Interpersona – An international journal of Interpersonal relations, ISSN – 1981-6472.
2008 – Member of the Directing Council at the Partnership for Equality Center (C.P.E.).
2005 – 2010 – Member of the National Register of Experts of the Romanian Research and Education Ministery [www.experti-cdi.ro and www.mct-excelenta.ro].
2005 – Member in the Editorial Board of the Review of Contemporary Philosophy – An International Journal, published by Marin Turlea, Professor of Philisophy, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania – ISSN- 1841-5261.
2005 – Member in the Editorial Board of Analysis and Metaphiscs, published by Marin Turlea, Professor of Philisophy, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania – ISSN- 1841-5249.
2003-2005 – Coordinatior of the Sociology collection at the Tritonic Publishing House – ten new titles supervised.
2001 – present – Member in the Editorial Board of Jurnalism si Comunicare-Revista Romana de Stiinte ale Comunicarii / Journalism and Communication – The Romanan Review of Communication Sciences, Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania–ISSN-1584-0050.
Teaching
See my page of the courses I teach at the University of Bucharest.