Gabriel Troc teaches courses on Introduction to Anthropology, Paradigms of Sociocultural Anthropology, the Socio-anthropology of Work, Roma in Central and Eastern Europe, and Postmodernism and Critical Thinking. He earned his PhD in Philosophy in 2004 and completed a master’s program in Cultural Anthropology in 1998, both at Babeș-Bolyai University. He undertook training and research stays at the University of Sussex, Utrecht University, Yale University, and Central European University. He was a Fulbright postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles (2007–2008) and a visiting professor at the same university in 2009. His research interests include the situation of rural Roma populations, transnational migration, urban development, social stratification, and labor relations in the post-socialist period. He has conducted fieldwork in various rural areas of Romania (Țara Oașului, Maramureș, Sălaj, Teleorman, and the Danube Delta). He has authored a book on postmodernism in cultural anthropology and co-edited a volume on foreign anthropologists who have worked in Romania.

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