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