Vlad Naumescu

Academic rank: 
Associate Professor
Position: 
MA Program Director
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
409
Phone number: 
+36 1 327 3000 x 2315
Qualifications: 
MA in Social Anthropology, National School of Political and Admin. Studies Bucharest, Romania
PhD in Social Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Martin Luther University Halle, Germany
CV attachment: 
Affiliations: 
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Academic/research topics: 
religion
secularism
visual anthropology
social memory
cultural transmission
psychological anthropology
Language proficiencies (spoken): 
Romanian (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
Ukrainian
French
Hungarian (intermediate)

Theses supervised by Vlad Naumescu

Master's
Bulgarian Orthodox church as a holder of the nation : a reconstruction from socialist time
Thesis author: Boryana Boykova Velcheva
Year of enrollment: 2011/2012
Exhuming a traumatic past in a post-transitional setting : the social movement for the recovery of historical memory in Spain
Thesis author: Mariana Semiao Mendes
Year of enrollment: 2011/2012
Memory work in Srebrenica-Serb women tell their stories
Thesis author: Jagoda Gregulska
Year of enrollment: 2008/2009

Publications

Book
Naumescu, V., and Stephanie Mahieu. Churches In-Between. Greek Catholic Churches in Postsocialist Europe In Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia. Vol. 16. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2008.
Book Chapter
Naumescu, V.. "The Religious Imaginary of Western Ukraine: Understanding social change through religious apparitions." In Religion and Boundaries; Studies from the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Turkey, edited by Galia Valtchinova, 227-246. Istanbul: Isis Press, 2010.
Naumescu, V.. "Encompassing religious plurality: The Orthodox Imaginary of Ukraine." In The Contest for Social Mobilization in Ukraine: From Revolution to Civil Society?, edited by Paul D'Anieri, 274-299. Washington D.C.: Johns Hopkins University Press , 2010.
Naumescu, V.. "Exorcising demons in post-Soviet Ukraine: a monastic community and its imagistic practice." In Eastern Christians in Anthropological Perspective, edited by Chris Hann and Hermann Goltz, 155-176. Berkeley: University of California Press., 2010.
Naumescu, V.. "Religious pluralism and the imagined Orthodoxy of Western Ukraine." In The Postsocialist Religious Question: Faith and Power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe, edited by Chris Hann Civil Religion and the group, 241-268. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2006.
Naumescu, V.. "Burying two bishops : legitimating church through the politics of the past in Romania." In Memory, politics and religion : the past meets the present in Europe, edited by F. Pine, D. Kaneff and H. Haukaness, 137-156. Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia , no. v. 4. Münster, Germany: Transaction Publishers, 2004.
Book review
Naumescu, V.. Postsocialist Europe: anthropological perspectives from home In Kürti, L., & Skalník, P. (2009). Postsocialist Europe: Anthropological perspectives from home. New York: Berghahn Books. Vol. 17. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 17, no. 3., 2011.
Naumescu, V.. Imaginations of Europe in Ukrainian Studies In Zaleska, O. L. M. L., & Rewakowicz, M. G. (2009). Contemporary Ukraine on the cultural map of Europe. Armonk, ny: M.e. sharpe. H-Net Reviews., 2011.
Naumescu, V.. On the Margins of Religion In Pine, Frances & Joao de Pina-Cabral eds. 2007. . Oxford: Berghahn Books. Vol. 1. Religion and Society: Advances in Research 1, no. September 2010., 2010.
Naumescu, V.. Communities of the Converted. Ukrainians and Global Evangelism In Wanner, C. (2007). Communities of the converted: Ukrainians and global evangelism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press . Vol. XIV. Anthropological Notebooks XIV, no. 3., 2008.
Journal Article