Ioana Brunet
Ioana Brunet
Research profile
Ioana Brunet is a first-year PhD student at Regensburg University, under the co-supervision of Dr. Johana Wyss (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Science) and Prof. Dr. Ger Duijzings (Southeast and East European History and Anthropology Department, Regensburg University). She holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from SNSPA University Bucharest and a BA in Sociology from the University of Bucharest. Conducting multiple ethnographic and archival research projects in Romania, she developed expertise in fieldwork and analytical skills.
Ioana participated in a 10-month Erasmus visit at the IKGS Institute in Munich, enriching her interdisciplinary perspective. Her research interests encompass cultural memory, history, identity formation, material culture, and heritage studies.
Currently, as part of the MEMPOP project led by Johana Wyss, Ioana is engaged in researching the politics and practices of memory in Bukovina, exploring how touristic events, public and private perspectives, and material traces reflect past and present political and identitarian projects.
Research output
2022 Photo Exhibition „Hydrobiographies – Irigation system Sadova-Corabia”. The visual results of a team fieldwork conducted during the MA Visual Studies Program at SNSPA University Bucharest. Published on Iscoada platform, November 2022.
2021 “The Traditional Lipovan Russian Bania” - Future is Heritage Student Conference (Arnhem, The Netherlands), October 2021. Video essay here
2020 “People. Boxes. Photographers”. Archival Research Project - „Responsible Tourism in Romania. Our stories” Conference (Bucharest), February 2020.
2019 “Gated Communities – Case Study: Greenfield Community” - International Conference (Im)mobilities: place-making, boundaries, interconnectedness - 17’th International “Border Crossing” Student Conference (Bucharest), April 2019.
2019 “Collective memory in the digital age – A netnography of a historical photography study group” - International Conference (Im)mobilities: place-making, boundaries, interconnectedness - 17’th International “Border Crossing” Student Conference (Bucharest), April 2019.
