Morena Tartari is the PI of the research project “WHoSGreen - Without God, with responsibility. A Research Study on the secular Humanist movement’s pro-environment activism and how its members socialize the next generation to green responsibilities” funded by the „PNRR: Fonduri pentru România modernă și reformată!”, Romanian Ministry of for Innovation and Digitalization, Romanian Government, European Union, and hosted by the Department of Sociology and Social Work, Babeş-Bolyai University.

Previously, Morena Tartari was the PI of the research project RE-Green that explored the pro-environmental activism of secular humanist movements in Norway, the UK, and Italy, funded with a STARS-Starting Grant (Supporting Talents in Research Programme) by the University of Padua, Italy.

From 2019 to 2021, thanks to a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dr. Tartari conducted the research project STRESS-Mums hosted by the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Dr. Tartari was also a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southampton working at the ESRC-funded project Pro-Tech-Them directed by Prof. Anita Lavorgna.

From 2014 to 2019, she was lecturer of sociology (with annual contracts) at the University of Padua, Italy.

Dr Tartari has a research background that intersects sociology of family, social problems theory, sociology of cultural process, sociology of deviance and criminology, with publications in journals like Families, Relationships and Society, Media, Culture and Society, and several presentations in international sociological conferences. She is also the leading editor of the book Fold Devils and Moral Panics in the Covid-19 Pandemic (2024) published by Routledge.

Moreover, Morena Tartari is the Chair (2023-2025) of the Teaching Social Problems Division, for the Society for the Study of Social Problems, an academic organization based in the US.