Călin Goina has a master’s degree in political science at the Central European University and a PhD in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches field research, qualitative research methods, historical sociology and rural sociology, as well as computerized research methods in qualitative analysis. His research focuses on two broad areas. His main lines of research as a historical sociologist explore the social history of rural Romania and he wrote about the life courses of three successive generations in a Transylvanian village, the collectivization process, the responses to the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and about a case study on the social history of the Roma. He conducted research on ethnicity and nationalism: during the 1990s ethnic confrontations in Târgu-Mureș, on the nationalist transformation of communism in Romanian and the rehabilitation of Lucrețiu Patrascanu, on the role of the state in the formation of the Romanian nation. His second line of investigation was focused on understanding collective actions (Timisoara 1989, the protests during the winter of 2011) and democratization processes: in the Republic of Moldova, as well as during the first months of democracy in Romania, immediately after the events of December 1989.
- rural sociology
- nationalism and ethnicity
- ethnography
- Eastern Europe
- Field research and ethnography
- Rural sociology
- Qualitative methods of sociological research
Granturi individuale sau burse postdoctorale:
- 1992 O bursa de cercetare (impreuna cu colegul meu Kantor Zoltan) ca directorii unui proiect al Asociatiei Studentilor Sociologi din Timisoara intitulat “The Transformation of Social Structures in the Transition Period: Timisoara” de la Fundatia Soros, Romania.
- 1994 Un grant din partea Higher Education Support Program pentru organizarea primului congres al Asociatiei Studentilor Sociologi din Romania.
- 1995-1996 Bursa acoperind taxa de studiu pentru programul de Masterat in Stiinte Politice, Univ. Central Europeana, Budapesta.
- 1995-1996 Bursa acoperind conditiile de cazare si trai pentru programul de Masterat in Stiinte Politice, Central European University, Budapesta.
- 1996-1997 Bursa acoperind taxa de studiu pentru programul de MPhil in Stiinte Politice, Univ. Central Europeana, Budapesta.
- 1996-1997 Bursa acoperind conditiile de cazare si trai pentru programul de MPhil in Stiinte Politice, Central European University, Budapesta.
- 1997-1998 Bursa acoperind taxa de studiu pentru programul de doctorat in Stiinte Politice, Univ. Central Europeana, Budapesta.
- 1997-1998 Bursa acoperind conditiile de cazare si trai pentru programul de doctorat in Stiinte Politice, Univ. Central Europeana, Budapesta.
- 1998-1999 Bursa acoperind taxa de studiu pentru programul de doctorat in Sociologie, Universitatea Californiei, Los Angeles
- 1998-1999 Bursa acoperind conditiile de cazare si trai pentru programul de doctorat in Sociologie, Universitatea Californiei, Los Angeles
- 1999-2000 Bursa acoperind taxa de studiu pentru porgramul de doctorat in Sociologie, Universitatea Californiei, Los Angeles
- 2000-2001 Bursa acoperind taxa de studiu pentru Programul de doctorat in Sociologie, Universitatea Californiei, Los Angeles
- 2002-2003 Bursa acoperind taxa de studiu pentru Programul de doctorat in Sociologie, Universitatea Californiei, Los Angeles
- 2004-2005 Bursa acoperind taxa de studiu pentru Programul de doctorat in Sociologie, Universitatea Californiei, Los Angeles
- 2006-2007 Fellow al Colegiului Noua Europa, Bucuresti
Membru al unei echipe de cercetare:
- 1996-1997 director de cercetarea pentru Republica Moldova pentru proiectul: “Democratization in Theory and Practice”, coordonat de in John S. Dryzek si Leslie Holmes de la Facultatea de Stiinte Politice a Universitatii Melbourne, Australia.
- 1997-1998 Membru al colectivului de cercetatori “Covering History” coordonata de prof. Istvan Rev, Fundatia Pentru Istorie Contemporatan, Budapesta, Open Society
- 1998-1999 Membru al echipei de cercetare coordonata de prof. Rogers Brubaker, fac. de Sociologie a Univ. Californiei, Los Angeles (UCLA) care studia relatiile inter-etnice in Transilvania , 1998-1999.
- 2000-2002 Membru al echipei de cercetare coordonata de Gail Kligman (UCLA) si Katherine Verdey (Ann-Arbor, Michigan) care studia procesul colectivizarii in Romania (1949-1962).
- 2002-2003 Membru al echipei de cercetarea coordonata de Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Facultatea de Antropologie a Univ. Berkeley, California care studia problema traficului de organe in Republica Moldova
- 2010 Coordinator (with Damiana Otoiu) of the research project “The German and Jewish Minority from Transylvania in the Immediate Postwar Years.(Hi)stories and Reconciling Memories,” of IICCMER, made possible by a grant of Konrad Adenauer
- June 2008-August 2008 – . Researcher in the PHARE program coordinated by Cosima Rughinis and Gabor Fleck: Roma in Romania. SPER.
- July 2016-August 2016 – SocioRoMap – Cartografierea sociografică a comunităţilor de romi din România pentru o monitorizare la nivel comunitar a schimbărilor privind integrarea romilor – proiect finanţat prin Mecanismul Financiar Norvegian 2009-2014 în cadrul Programului “Combaterea Sărăciei în România” (RO25)