Oana Ivan, PhD
DOB: November 21st 1979, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
e-mail: oanaoana@hotmail.com
EDUCATION
2009-2012: PhD student, in co-tutelage program between:
School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.
(Supervisor: Dr.Rajindra Puri) and
Department of Sociology and Social Work, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca,
Romania (Supervisor: Dr.Petru Ilut)
Thesis: “Cultural change in a fishing village in the Danube Delta: the
consequences of environmental protection and tourism.”
Defended: January 11th 2013, passed “Very good- Magna Cum Laude”
2005-2007 University of Wyoming, U.S.A Master of Arts in Anthropology
2001-2005 Avram IancuUniversity, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. B.A.Major:
Anthropology and Philosophy, Highest ranked student
1998-2001 Phoenix College, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Major: Copywriting
and advertising strategy
EXPERIENCE
March 2013-present: producing a documentary film on the fishermen’s life
and environmental policies in the Danube Delta
August 2012-January 2013: short term consultant at the World
Bank/Global Environmental Facility (appraisal of the Danube Delta UNESCO
site’s socio-economic and environmental issues)
September 2010- May 2011: Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of
Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. Modules:
(1) Introduction to Social Anthropology, (2) Ethno-pharmacology, (3) People,
Plants and Animals.
June-September 2009: anthropological field research in the Danube Delta
fishing villages, Romania
August 2008: Camp coordinator of the ecological camp “Save the Danube
and the Delta”, on Litcov channel, Danube Delta, Romania
March- May 2007: Producing the anthropologic film “The European Union,
Sheep, and Transylvanians”
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September 2006- May 2007: Internship: Ethnographic research for the
“Devils Tower National Park, Wyoming, U.S.A.” governmental project
August 2005- May 2007: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Univ. of Wyoming,
U.S.A. Modules: Environmental Anthropology, Ethnographic Research Methods,
Linguistic Anthropology
June-August 2005, 2006: Independent anthropological field research in a
shepherds’ community in Transylvania, Romania
2004: Independent Research: Producing the ethnographic film “Inside
Story- Gypsies from Balnaca Village, Romania”
LANGUAGES
English – speak fluently and read/write with high proficiency
French – speak fluently, read and write with average competence
Romanian- native speaker
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
2009-2012 Scholarship awarded through Babes-Bolyai University from the
European Social Fund, the Sectoral Operational Program for Human Resources
Development
2009-2012 Graduate Assistantship, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.
2005-2007 Graduate Assistantship, University of Wyoming, U.S.A.
2006 Research Grant, University of Wyoming, U.S.A.
2002-2005 Excellence Grant, Avram Iancu University, Romania
2003 - 2005 Research Assistantship, Avram Iancu University, Romania
CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIUMS ATTENDED
July 8th-10th 2013: “The public image”, international conference of the
International Visual Sociology Association, Goldsmiths College, London, U.K. –
paper presented: “Whose story is it, anyway?”; On environmental
protection, fishing culture and personal quest in the Danube Delta
Biosphere Reserve
July 3rd-5th 2013: “International Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference”,
University of Vienna, Austria- paper presented: “Environmental politics in the
Danube Delta; policy-making, implementation, conflicts and resource
depletion in Eastern Europe”.
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June 2013: "Nature and the Environment in East and Southeast Europe:
Historical and Economic Perspectives", international conference of the Institute
for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany - paper
presented: “ My father would die again if he saw how ecologists turned our
ancestors’ fishing ground into a pelican reservation”. Cultural
understandings of the environment, environmentalism and nature;
histories from a Romanian fishing village.
May 2013: "Challenges of transition: the post-communist experience(s)”
international interdisciplinary conference, Faculty of Political Science, University
of Bucharest, Romania- paper presented: “On international policy-making,
local responses and resource depletion; how does environmental
protection actually work in the post-communist Danube Delta Biosphere
Reserve”
October 2012: “We have the Danube Delta. How do we manage it?”
symposium of the Save the Danube and the Delta NGO, Bucharest,presentation of the 2005 Global Environmental Facility’s study:“The GEF
Biodiversity Project in the Danube’s Delta: Where are the Community
Benefits?
October 2012: “Unpacking tourists’ desires and places of longing in
Central and Eastern Europe”, international symposium, University of Basel,
Switzerland- paper presented “The Case of Sfantu Gheorghe: a
Sehnsuchtsort AND a Fishing Village from Eastern Europe”.
August 2012: “Visualising crisis” international visual anthropology
workshop, Centro IncontriUmani, Ascona, Switzerland- project presented:
“Cultural change in a fishing village in the Danube Delta: the consequences
of environmental protection and tourism.”
June 2012: “Destination branding, heritage and authenticity” international
conference, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain- paper presented:
“Pelicans, traditional fish dishes and other natural beauties: Local use of
natural heritage in the emerging family tourism business-Sfantu Gheorghe
village, Danube Delta”.
June 2012: “Beyond globalization” International conference of Romanian
Sociological Society, Bucharest, Romania- paper presented: “Fishermen,
tourists and the European Union- locals’ reactions to the new European
regulations and tourism”
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May 2012: “Romanian rural tourism in the context of sustainable
development. Perspectives and prospects” international conference, Romanian
Academy-Iasi, VatraDornei, Romania- paper presented:“Rural tourism in the
Context of Sustainable Development: An Anthropological Perspective over
Two Fishing Villages Situated inside the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve”
March 2012: “Writing across boundaries” interdisciplinary postgraduate
workshop, University of Durham, U.K
March 2012: “Breaking Bubbles in Anthropology” national conference,
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK,- presented paper: “Anthropology and
Anthropologists beyond textbooks. On how life is in the field”.
March 2011: “Biocultural diversity; concepts and interdisciplinary methods”
2 week intensive course, University of Barcelona, Spain
September 2009: “Danube Delta and Wetlands International Conference”,
Tulcea, Romania- presented paper: “The consequences of tourism for a
fisherman’s family in Sfantu Gheorghe, the Danube Delta”.
PUBLICATIONS
1. Ivan, Oana.2012 .“The consequences of tourism for a fisherman’s family in
Sfântu Gheorghe, the Danube Delta” in Scientific Annals of the Danube Delta
Institute 18 (1), (in press).
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