Staff Profile
Ana-Maria is a social anthropologist interested in practices of care, ethnicity and migration. She is currently working on the project entitled Dementia care in South Asian Communities: An ethnographic and interview study led by Dr Kate Gibson. The project uses ethnography to investigate the intersections of care for South Asian people in Â鶹´«Ã½ living with dementia and their social networks.
Before joining Â鶹´«Ã½, Ana-Maria studied for her PhD in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University. Her PhD is an ethnography of Romanians in North-West London, exploring their moral and political experiences and practices of identity formation. Prior to her PhD, Ana-Maria completed a Masters in Research Methods (Anthropology) and a BA in Anthropology and Sociology at Durham University.
Ana-Maria is passionate about teaching. She has experience in teaching introductory social anthropology and supporting students during hands-on ethnographic field courses.
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Articles
- Cîrstea A-M, Johnson L, Phiri C. . SSM - Qualitative Research in Health 2024, 5, 100387.
- Cîrstea A-M, Pescinski J. . Migration Studies 2024, 12(3), mnae020.