Ioana Brunet

I am a first-year PhD student at Regensburg University, under the co-supervision of Dr. Johana Wyss (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Science) and Prof. Dr. Ger Duijzings (Southeast and East European History and Anthropology Department, Regensburg University). I hold an MA in Visual Anthropology from SNSPA University Bucharest and a BA in Sociology from the University of Bucharest. I have participated in various ethnographic and archival research projects in Romania, where I developed my fieldwork and analytical skills. My academic journey includes a 10-month Erasmus visit at the IKGS Institute in Munich, enriching my interdisciplinary perspective. My research interests encompass cultural memory, history, identity formation, material culture, and heritage studies. Consequently, my doctoral thesis investigates the politics and practices of memory in Bukovina, exploring how touristic events, public and private perspectives, and material traces reflect past and present political and identitarian projects. As a mother of an 8-year-old boy, I balance my readings between academic texts and children’s books, enjoying both immensely, as I believe scholars, like children, thrive on curiosity as a central part of their lives.